I think some of these polls that have suddenly come out in the past couple of days showing either a neck-and-neck race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, or even an outright lead for Obama must be close to the truth on the ground, because look at what Hillary is quoted as saying today this past friday:
I’d love to carry Texas, but it’s usually not in the electoral calculation for the Democratic nominee. Florida and Michigan are.
Look, I prefer Barack Obama, but I’d have had no problem cheering Hillary on if she won the nomination - she still would be a definite improvement on both Dubya and McCain. However, this tendency of hers to belittle any state where she’s going to lose, is losing, or is apparently about to lose after having a big lead - what Daily Kos blogging head Markos Moultisias called the “insult 40 states strategy” - has been a big turnoff to a lot of people, and a lot of Democrats from the looks of how Clinton has fared. I think whatever adviser told her to pursue that line should be kept off any future presidential campaign.
UPDATE: Great line:
“she’s now reduced to arguing that the only states that really matter are the two that she won because nobody else was on the ballot and/or nobody else campaigned there?”
UPDATE 2: Yes, I know it’s rather ironic I’m talking about this after my previous post, but hey, that stood out like a sore thumb. I HAD to comment on it.
UPDATE 3: SUSA - one of the more accurate pollsters for the primaries, now gives Obama a 4 point lead in Texas.
Blame Mark Penn. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/05/09/the_real_case_against_mark_pen/