Obama looks to next contests
Barack Obama, who lost in Pennsylvania tonight, put the best face on the result and looked ahead to the next showdown in Indiana in two weeks.
He congratulated Hillary Clinton on her victory and thanked his supporters in Pennsylvania. "She ran a terrific race," he said.
But he said he closed the gap in the Keystone State. "They thought we were going to be blown out," he said.
Obama also said he inspired thousands of new voters. "It is those new voters who will lead our party to victory in November," he told supporters at a rally in Evansville, Ind. He has a town hall set for Wednesday in New Albany, Ind.
He reminded his backers of his campaign's core message of change, which he said can get lost in tit-for-tat politics of the campaign.
"We’re not here to talk about change for change’s sake, but because our families, our communities, and our country desperately need it," he said. "We’re here because we can’t afford to keep doing what we’ve been doing for another four years. We can’t afford to play the same Washington games with the same Washington players and expect a different result."
The fact is the GOP would rather face Clinton, why do you think they are rooting for her?
As for the "center of America" is concerned, I am afraid that is a specious argument. Perhaps Mr. Bennett does not realize the truth about this situation. The people are voting by sending their money to one candidate. That candidate runs 40% of their campaign from donations under 200 dollars. It takes a lot of average Americans sending donations to raise twice and three times the money the other candidates can raise. Those other candidates are running their campaigns from donations in the 75% range coming from donors who give 2300 dollars to 4600 dollars. Those other candidates have periodically run out of money and had to borrow money.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/donordems.asp?filter=A&sortby=S
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/donordems.asp?filter=A&sortby=X
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/donordems.asp?filter=A&sortby=P
If how a campaign is run is any indication how that candidate will run the country there is only one choice.
Flag pins, pastors and "bitter" remarks are ridiculous arguments and most Americans know that. That is why one candidate has received most of the popular votes, won most of the delegates and won most of the States.
Senator Clinton seems intent on saying essentially "if I can't win the nomination then neither will Senator Obama".
McCain has some serious problems of his own and I doubt seriously he can win in November once some of that comes out (unlike the baseless garbage being hurled at Senator Obama).
One of two things will happen.
1) Clinton will not give up and it will go all the way to the convention and then possibly end in a brokered convention (Al Gore?). This could be a serious problem for the Democratic party if this happens and may put many Democrats off.
2) Super delegates will begin to go in droves to Senator Obama after the next two primary States when Clinton either ties (like tonight) or loses badly (like one of the next two primary States is sure to happen).
Either way Senator Clinton should have exited gracefully long ago.
It's going to be easier, Bill set the tone for whining. "If the Hillary was running under Republican party rules she would be ahead now."
That's a slap on the Democratic Party rules that put him through two terms in office.
It causes some, I read her name a Dottie on another blog. She's 36 years old, life time Democrat and if Hillary loses she will vote for McCain. A bitter Democrat choosing the Conservative Republican. Willing to throw it all away out of spite.
Senator Obama is the most inspiring politician I've seen in my lifetime.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign has been bankrupted... is that an example of what we can expect from her in running our country's economy?
I am a Clinton supporter, no doubt... but I think it's still credible to say that Obama's remarks tonight were odd. I thought he was making an argument at first to the superdelegates, when he opened saying that the people his campaign was attracting to the primaries would carry the Dems to victory in Nov ... but then he seemed to go on the attack against all politicians -- not only McCain and Clinton -- saying that no one has done well by the voters for forty years. I couldn't help but wonder if he had gone off message ... .for surely it's no way to woo a superdelegate to say you are not doing a good job for the country, is it? Can he run against Democrats and win the nomination?
The candidate who has been judged to be honest haslost in PA. What does it say about American politics? Unenlightened voters are destroying American democracy, reducing it to Italian-styled democracy and political culture and eventually oligarchy. Americans perhaps need to take some lessons from Swiss voters. Though the Swiss are not perfect and many voters here also gullible, yet they seem to be the most enlightened voters in the West. How can a people choose Hilary over Obama -- a woman who is ready to use almost about every low tactics, including lies, to court voters?
Yea, BILLARY Clinton survives another day, but she is merely postponing her eventual political demise!
What I don't understand is how Hillary can justify to her constituents and party why she should still be in this race? Look at the math. Even if it comes down to superdelegates at the convention, it just doesn't add up. It hasn't added up since the Texas/Ohio voting-- where everyone said Hillary 'won'-- yet Obama came out of it with a larger lead than before because of the caucuses.
Look at the remaining delegates... Hillary would need to win CONVINCINGLY in all remaining contests to have a shot at this.
Hillary's big "WIN" yesterday netted her, what, 10-20 delegates more than Barack? This race is over. All we're doing at this point is hurting Barack's chances of winning in November.
Sadly the illusion of free and fair elections will be made clear when Hillary is the nominee and eventual President
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