Who gives a ****??
Both are NIGGERS!!
"traveler" <Vallecito@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> March 5, 2008
> Advisers for Clinton Plan the Endgame
> By PATRICK HEALY, NY Times
>
> Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today began plotting a
> ground game, advertising budgets and a confidence-brimming outreach
> strategy in hopes of both scoring a big victory in April's
> Pennsylvania primary and ac***ulating enough superdelegates over time
> to even the nomination fight against Senator Barack Obama.
>
> Mr. Obama, who had 11 straight primary and caucus victories in
> February, has enjoyed momentum lately in picking off superdelegates,
> the party leaders who have a vote in the nomination. Mrs. Clinton and
> her advisers now believe that with her victories in Texas and Ohio
> last night, she can convince superdelegates to stand with her after a
> Pennsylvania victory.
>
> She also believes that a strong showing in Pennsylvania, which has 188
> delegates at stake, could set up a powerful one-two punch two weeks
> later in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, which have a
> combined 218 delegates. Her team believes she has an especially good
> shot at winning Indiana, where the state's influential Democratic
> senator, Evan Bayh, a former two-term governor, was one of Mrs.
> Clinton's earliest sup****ters.
>
> Clinton advisers acknowledged on Wednesday that the delegate
> arithmetic still has them at a disadvantage; Mr. Obama has 1,456.5
> delegates to Mrs. Clinton's 1,370, and the upcoming primaries will
> award delegates pro****tionally to both the winner and the loser. That
> will have the effect making each candidate inch toward the 2,025
> delegates needed for the nomination.
>
> Senator Clinton is also hoping to get an extra boost by adding
> delegates to her column from Michigan and Florida, and her advisers
> today have been discussing ways to deal with the conundrum in those
> states.
>
> The Democratic Party stripped the two states of their delegates after
> they moved up their primaries to January, but Mrs. Clinton remained on
> the ballot in both _as Mr. Obama did in Florida. She won in both
> Florida and Michigan and is now seeking to have the delegates counted.
>
> While Clinton advisers have publicly opposed talk of a "do-over" vote
> in either state, which is possible, some of her advisers said today
> that they would now be inclined to sup****t such a vote. They believe
> her strength with Hispanics, women and Jewish voters in Florida, and
> with union workers and women in Michigan, would be enough to overtake
> Mr. Obama's advantage with black and young voters in both states.
>
> Mrs. Clinton and her top officials continue to oppose such a do-over.
> The alternative is waiting until July for the party to consider
> allowing Florida and Michigan delegates to count at the August
> convention. But the Clinton advisers who sup****t a new vote said they
> expected conversations on the issue to intensify in her camp.
>
> In the short term, the campaign announced today that it was
> dispatching former President Bill Clinton tomorrow to Wyoming -- which
> holds Democratic caucuses on Saturday -- and on Friday to Mississippi,
> which holds presidential primaries next Tuesday. Mrs. Clinton's
> upcoming travel plans are still under wraps.
>
> As for other upcoming primaries, Mark Penn, the campaign's chief
> strategist, predicted today that "a fuller vetting process" of Mr.
> Obama by the media would heighten concerns among voters about Mr.
> Obama's candidacy and "open up a number of other states" where Mrs.
> Clinton could compete intensively for delegates. He spoke on a
> conference call with re****ters.
>
> Campaign advisers said they believed Kentucky and West Virginia could
> ultimately be in play. They also predicted that Mrs. Clinton would win
> the final contest on June 7 in Puerto Rico, where 63 delegates will be
> at stake.
>
> Mrs. Clinton is not simply looking for outright victories in all of
> the states to come, of course, but is also looking to narrow Mr.
> Obama's margin of victory so that even in defeat, she can pick up a
> number of pro****tionally allocated delegates in each state.
>
> Harold Ickes, a senior adviser to Senator Clinton, said on the
> conference call that the Clinton campaign's chief objective was not to
> sully Mr. Obama's image or record, but to cast a spotlight on lightly
> examined or unknown aspects of both.
>
> "This is not a question of trying to damage somebody -- this is a
> question of trying to fully understand all the particular aspects of
> each of the candidates," Mr. Ickes said. "There's not another shoe in
> her closet to drop. It is clear that too much is yet unknown about
> Senator Obama."
>
> The Clinton campaign also released a memo stressing confidently that
> it would have enough money to compete against Mr. Obama this spring
> and summer, after nearly going broke in early February -- at a time
> when Mr. Obama was raising $1 million or more a day. Since the Feb. 5
> national primary, Mrs. Clinton has also been raising money at a clip
> of $1 million a day, mostly online.
>
> "In February, the Clinton campaign raised approximately $35 million,"
> according to the campaign memo, e-mailed to re****ters and sup****ters.
> "This deep level of sup****t gives Hillary the resources she needs to
> compete between now and the convention."
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