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Time for Media to Walk Away From Hillary - It's No Longer a Close Race
It's over!
The media needs to start treating Hillary Clinton like they did Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney at the end of their campaign runs against John McCain. IGNORE HER
This constant paying attention to Hillary, now that Barack Obama has gotten more delegates, both in elected and super (ABC), the popular vote and he has won 32 (almost 33 lacking 1 pct in Indiana) out of 47 States -- is ludicrous.
Why they continue to treat her as though this race were 'close' or 'tied', is beyond comprehension. Especially since all the 'experts' in the political pundit world have declared Barack Obama the Democrat's "presumptive nominee".
It's over.
Barack Obama is holding a Florida fundraiser on May 22. This is his second one planned. Obama is running his General Election media. According to Obama's campaign — he'll have clinched the nomination on May 20th.
Unless by chance Obama should ask Hillary to run as his VP (I pray not) -- there is no longer a reason to give her a 'stage' to play on.
Comments (2)
The media walked away from Senator Clinton a long time ago. Relax.
May 9, 2008 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Connie, I know how you feel.
But like the Clintons, the media doesn't like not getting attention. (sorry for the double negative)
I'm not as outraged about the media obsession with her campaign now as I was when she was still a realistic contender.
Today, I would say MSNBC has spent 85% of its time on Hillary, her recent AP comments, her stump speeches, Bill's stump speeches, and Howard Wolfson's math.
Somehow, none of it engages me anymore. I used to want to listen to every word the Clinton campaign would say on the networks, but today, I've just left the volume of the tv off.
May 9, 2008 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
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