Oh, Politics
Well, Clinton’s last-minute negative campaigning seems to have given her a big boost, and she did about five points better than I expected in both Texas and Ohio. The one time I try not to be pessimistic. Damn. The delegate count remains about the same, although she got a lot closer to Obama in overall votes received this primary season, which may end up being significant.
Michigan and Florida are thinking of holding do-over primaries in both states, which seems like it might be the most democratic solution of all the choices. At the very least, this keeps the Clinton camp from arguing that we seat a Michigan delegation for a primary that didn’t even have Obama on the ballot. The math really isn’t there for Clinton to overtake Obama in pledged delegates under any scenario, so now it seems she’s playing to make it close, claim momentum from the end-of-the-season primaries, and ask superdelegates to push her over the top.
4 comments March 6th, 2008