As I noted yesterday, the Clinton campaign is looking at the polls and redefining what victory, or defeat, might be on March 4th:
WACO, Texas — Recasting what would keep her campaign alive, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s advisers said Friday that if rival Barack Obama loses any of Tuesday’s four presidential primaries, it would show Democrats are having second thoughts about him.
In an e-mail and conference call to reporters, Clinton’s campaign sought to raise the stakes for the Illinois senator in next week’s primaries and also laid the groundwork to keep her campaign alive if the results are disappointing.
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In the conference call, senior Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson seized on those facts to reshape expectations about the Democratic contest.
“They are outspending us at least two to one in Ohio and Texas,” Wolfson said. “If they are unable to win these states, it sends a very clear signal that Democrats want this campaign to continue. Obama has every advantage going into this election. If Senator Obama is in fact the de facto nominee, he ought to win all four.”
A loss for Obama in even one of the four states Tuesday would indicate Democrats have developed a case of “buyer’s remorse,” Wolfson said. “It would show that Senator Obama is having trouble closing the deal with Democrats.”
That’s quite a change from what the candidates own husband was saying only a week ago:
As recently as Feb. 20, Clinton’s husband, former President Clinton, was singing a different tune about what it would take to keep her candidacy afloat beyond Tuesday.
“If she wins in Texas and Ohio, I think she’ll be the nominee,” the former president told a Beaumont, Texas, audience. “If you don’t deliver for her, I don’t think she can be.”
Bill Clinton’s assertion that his wife must win both Texas and Ohio to keep her campaign alive reflects a widely held view among political analysts.
As Brendan Loy notes, the post-March 4th landscape doesn’t look good for Hillary either:
[L]et’s not forget that the two races immediately after Tuesday are the Wyoming caucuses (March
and the Mississippi primary (March 11). Neither of those are Clinton-friendly at all. So even if she manages to successfully delay the media’s recognition of a March 4 failure, the most likely result is simply a slow bleed — much like what happened after Super Tuesday, actually, when the media slowly woke up to Hillary’s dire straights, helped along by one loss after another in the week that followed.
There’s just no other way this can play out. Hillary cannot credibly make the case that she should stay in the race until Pennsylvania’s April 22nd primary.
YOU MIGHT BE AN IDIOT:-)
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary’s than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton.
Best regards
jacksmith…
If you think that experience has supremacy over charcter; if you think the 90s are still with us; if you think a tired, wooden voice is what Americans want to hear for another 8 years; if you think Hillary has precedence over Obama—YOU not only might be an idiot, but are definitely passe.