RON FOURNIER: Clinton has little chance of closing the gap...
(Yahoo News) - Hillary Rodham Clinton slowed Barack Obama's momentum Tuesday night with a winning formula that has Republicans smiling — and some Democratic leaders hoping to end the race soon.
Though she still faces a virtually insurmountable disadvantage in the delegate chase, the New York senator managed to keep her campaign afloat with a "kitchen sink" attack strategy designed to raise doubts about Obama. It worked, but to what end?
A charmed politician who has faced few hurdles in is career, the Illinois senator had to answer questions about his ability to handle a foreign policy crisis (who do you want answering the White House phone at 3 a.m.?); his friendship with a donor facing fraud charges (Tony Rezko helped Obama with a land deal); his service in the Senate (failing to hold hearings as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee); and his credibility on trade (an adviser reportedly told Canadians that his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement was posturing).
Though she still faces a virtually insurmountable disadvantage in the delegate chase, the New York senator managed to keep her campaign afloat with a "kitchen sink" attack strategy designed to raise doubts about Obama. It worked, but to what end?
A charmed politician who has faced few hurdles in is career, the Illinois senator had to answer questions about his ability to handle a foreign policy crisis (who do you want answering the White House phone at 3 a.m.?); his friendship with a donor facing fraud charges (Tony Rezko helped Obama with a land deal); his service in the Senate (failing to hold hearings as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee); and his credibility on trade (an adviser reportedly told Canadians that his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement was posturing).
posted by BP News Bureau | 1:06 PM
1 Comments:
I can't figure out why all of the pundits, excepting Rush Limbaugh, keep blatantly ignoring the fact that the Democrats have a delegate system that favors a brokered convention. I haven't looked at the numbers lately, but I believe at this point it is impossible for Obama to clinch the nomination before the convention. Every single Democrat insider who cared to comment says Hillary has the edge with the super delegates.
As much fun as it is for the pundits to gleefully count her beastliness out, doing so is a fool's errand.
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