What really is her point anyway? She can't win the nomination. That is clear from the math. Yet she stays in anyway. Does she just hate the black guy? It seems like it. I guess she just can't believe that someone in America might be more acceptable to the American people than her for the Democratic nomination.
Her monumental ego just cannot process that factoid! Sad but true!, We are observing a woman driven by a power addiction. Her husband was driven by sex and power. She as a celibate for all practical purposes and certainly not for the love of God is driven by power alone. That is the key to understand Hillary!
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The Aftermath
Despite the growing odds, Clinton remains resolute.
May 8, 2008 | Updated: 11:46 a.m. ET May 8, 2008
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So what now? Judging from the final tallies that came in from Indiana and North Carolina, Tuesday night was not the come-from-behind, make-or-break, winner-takes-all landslide that Hillary Clinton and her campaign surely would have liked. Late in the evening, after the bulk of results had come in, NBC's political kingmaker Tim Russert called the race for Barack Obama. "It's now clear who the Democratic nominee's going to be," he said of the Illinois senator, who came out the evening's winner with 98 new delegates, compared to Clinton's 85. "Those closest to [Clinton] will now give her a hardheaded analysis."
Could be, but there aren't many signs of it visible on the campaign trail. Not long after her razor-thin victory in Indiana it was back to business as usual. Just before 4 a.m. campaign officials added a last-minute stop to Wednesday's schedule: a plan for her to speak to supporters in Shepherdstown, W.Va., a small suburban college town that reporters joked was quintessential Clinton country: banners hanging from lampposts next to small-town boutique stores with names like "Mimi's Ice Cream Shoppe" and "The Herb Lady."
The 300 or so supporters who scrambled to the town's center for a glimpse of the candidate brushed off concerns about the status of Clinton's bid and the uphill nature of her fight from here on in. "She's going to win; there's absolutely no way she can't," said Michael Malick, a Clinton supporter from Martinsburg, W.Va., who quickly dismissed her opponent as "not even comparable." Joanne Drewry, another supporter, had the biggest collection of Hillary signs in the crowd. "I've got a lot of faith in her," she told NEWSWEEK. "She's a woman, she's strong, and I know she's got it in her."
Clinton, fierce as ever in a blazing hot-pink suit, also waved off any worries about her political prospects. Speaking to the 300 or so people at a hastily thrown-together rally on the steps of the town's university administration building, Clinton cited high turnout in Indiana and other contests. She argued that the protracted nomination battle is good for the party and made the claim that there's still plenty of time left to catch fire—a view that did not find much support among party leaders in the aftermath of Tuesday's vote. "I still think it's early," Hillary told reporters after the event. "Remember that in June of 1992, that's when Bill really wrapped up the nomination—the middle of June, after the California primary." In fact, her husband effectively became the nominee about three months earlier. On March 20, 1992, the Washington Post reported that Clinton "effectively locked up the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday when former Massachusetts Gov. Paul Tsongas suspended his campaign."
Clinton also pointed to 1968 as precedent for a drawn-out campaign. "You know, I remember very well what happened in the California primary in 1968, as, you know, Senator [Robert] Kennedy won that primary," Clinton said today. "I mean, we traditionally have gone longer than you've seen in the last couple of cycles. And there isn't any problem in closing ranks and unifying." But it's unclear how appealing that example will be to the crucial constituency of undecided superdelegates. Most people don't remember the 1968 Democratic Convention—with riots and chaos unfolding inside and outside the convention hall—as the party's finest hour.
Quoting history is one thing, but it's the here and now on which Clinton will need to focus. With just a handful of contests left, her campaign still trails Obama in the total delegate count. Over the next month voters in five states and Puerto Rico will cast their votes. But as Obama supporters are quick to point out, even massive margins in expected Clinton strongholds like West Virginia (May 13) and Kentucky (May 20) would leave her well short of Obama in the pledged delegate count.
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