Expectations game in full spin mode
As usual, it's all about setting expectations heading into a Democratic primary day that could be a game-changer, a game-ender, or more likely a split decision.
Hillary Clinton, who hopes to change the game by winning both Indiana and North Carolina, said this morning that she's coming from way back. "We've closed the gap," she said on CNN.
Her campaign is trying to make a big deal out of prior predictions from Barack Obama's camp that he would be victorious in both states. "I think he's going to win both," Joe Andrew, a former Democratic National Committee chairman from Indiana who switched allegiances from Clinton to Obama last week, said on Fox News Sunday.
So if, as the polls suggest, Clinton wins narrowly in Indiana and Obama wins more comfortably in North Carolina, the Clinton camp will portray the results as a triumph -- and reason to keep going in the nomination fight.
Meanwhile, Obama, who hopes to end the game by winning both states, is emphasizing the delegate math, while acknowledging today that the race will likely continue until after the last contests on June 3. Obama leads in the overall delegate tally 1,742.5 to 1,607.5, according to an Associated Press count Sunday.
Because the Democratic Party awards delegates proportionately, it will be nearly impossible for Clinton to catch up. But it will also be impossible for either to get the 2,025 needed to clinch the nomination without superdelegates. And those elected officials and party leaders will be scrutinizing whether the candidates meet or exceed expectations on Tuesday.
Obama '08! Don't be deterred by the phoney-baloney--vote for the first man of the people to come along in decades! For our children, our grandchildren, our nation, our planet--vote!
Obama's smoothness has long left a strong doubt about who he is. Sen Obama must be the biggest dummy to sit, with his family especially his young daughters, in Rev Wright's congregation for twenty years listening to him preach hate and could not work away? My biggest concern is his friendship with both Wright and Farrakhan. He must have come into this presidential race thoroughly schooled that America is the perpetrator of world problems and four years in office is enough to make America look at itself again. Why cant his supporters question him thoroughly because this country will be putting their safety in the hands of this doubtful amature who will sweet talk many out of their senses. How are we sure that his last renunciation of Wright is not staged to look as if they differ in opinions about thos country.
Hillary makes joe-sixpack feel good because of the multiple moral failings of the Clinton household. He and his wife feel better because Hillary isn't better than them and doesn't ask them to be better either.
Obama makes joe-sixpack feel bad because Obama shows him what this country offers and what he could have become if he tried. And then he gets bitter.
Example: how stupid to Hillary think people are with her gas tax break? Will she promise a chicken in every pot next?
Obama - the good kick in the pants folks need. Obama 08
Obama is so far from a "doubtful amateur." Anybody who understands how Whitehouse cabinetry works, especially given our current example, knows that Obama will be appointing only the best to run this country. And yes Hillary, too, will take her pick from the board rooms of vast corporations and Washington think tanks that run this country. How they each stand alone has been adequately demonstrated in public appearance and debates: she relies on negativity, he on hope. I feel sorry for all the silly people who see associations to religious leaders as thee measuring stick for one candidate's leadership ability. They should check out McCain's clergy cronies and be really scared! And better yet, question why McCain's spiritual ties haven't been dissected and promoted in the media's spotlight.
The trend in NC is in Clinton's favor. In today's (final) NC tracking poll by SurveyUSA it noted that in NC among those who have yet to vote, Clinton and Obama are tied.
It all depends on voter turnout.
It is very close and Clinton could win NC.
If she does, it is a new ballgame.
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