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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:13 PM
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Did you expect Clinton to crush her Indiana supporters
by conceding to Obama on an evening when it looks very likely she won the primary there?

Indiana is going to be close, but since I watched the margin widen between the candidates as the last few percent was added -- in votes, not percentage points -- she'd have been foolish to ignore Obama's concession of the state to her.

So you expected her to walk out there and tell her supporters, who worked very hard for her, that she was bowing out of the race tonight, in a state she's probably won?

I believe she will bow out of the race within the next few weeks. But she has enough support that she has won the right to negotiate how she gets out of the race, and shouldn't feel she has to bow out the evening Obama wins North Carolina.

The talking heads on MSNBC just mentioned some reasons May 20 would be a better time for Clinton to bow out, after West Virginia (for her) and Oregon (for Obama). Too tired to go into the details. But this could be what's going on...
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:15 PM
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1. she cant afford a yard sign for WV or Oregon, she'll have to take Greyhound as well
and if she has had to lend herself more money she will be charging the bus tickets
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Ice-9 Donating Member (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:32 PM
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2. I would not have expected her to concede tonight regardless of what happened.
But I was still surprised by her hawkish posturing -- e.g., "on to the White House!" and "Indiana's the tiebreaker!" I think there was a third way she could have taken but that, for whatever reason, she decided not to take.
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