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Carville: 'Of Course' Clinton is Staying in Race
May 07, 2008 9:14 AM
ABC News' Mike Elmore Reports: Appearing on CNN’s "American Morning" on Wednesday, Democratic Strategist and Clinton supporter James Carville vowed that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would stay in the race amidst increasing pressure from party members for her to bow out. "If she wins Oregon, we will have won 6 out of the last 7 primaries," said Carville. (It would actually be 5 out of the last 7 -- with Obama winning Mississippi and North Carolina.)
"Let's see what happens to the popular vote in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico," he added.
In the run-up to Tuesday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Carville told Newsweek Clinton "has to do better than a tie." "She’s got to shock the system," he said.
Today, Carville told a different story: "She was an underdog, she is an underdog. She won Indiana. The tie allows this thing to go on. It will be an interesting race."
"Why would she get out of the race? Of course she's going to stay in the race," said Carville. "I'm a sports fan, and no one ever ends a game before it’s over," he added.
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You never know what else we might learn about Obama. Strange how no one is stating that Obama is electable, only that he is ahead (yet he cannot win the nomination either without a Convention vote)
Posted by: geevill | May 7, 2008 9:22:19 AM
Hills is in it to the BITTER end so says Mary Matalin's husband.
I guess this makes sense because Hillary seems to be in the race for Hillary and Bill's cronies.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | May 7, 2008 9:23:37 AM
Clinton had a chance last night in her "victory" speech to heal the party and save the Clinton's legacy.
I am very disappointed in Clinton and I think the American people are disappointed.
What we witnessed last night was the death of the old politics of pander, deception and divisiveness in the Democratic party. A sad spectacle of the end of the hypocritical politics that has controlled the Democratic party for decades.
Next stop McCain and the Republican party.
Posted by: Deward Bowles | May 7, 2008 9:25:35 AM
The black racism in the North Carolina win cannot triumph over the nomination process. The Indiana win of a mere 9 counties by Obama out of more than 100 counties cannot triumph over the nomination process. Florida and Michigan must be counted; the remaining states must vote; and the superdelegates must use their independent judgment to select the best qualified candidate for the presidency and that is Hillary Clinton. The fight for the future of America continues.
Posted by: crat3 | May 7, 2008 9:27:28 AM
The game is over Carville! She was down by 6 points in the final seconds of the 4th quarter and needed to hit two big 3-pointers to go into overtime. She only hit one.
Posted by: Blake | May 7, 2008 9:30:15 AM
Stanley
An Obama - McCain match up in the GE is fine with me.
I know Hillary's Dead Enders were hoping for a Willard Ronmey - Hillary match up. This woulda been miserable to endure. Mittens and Hillary are about the same style of Politician
Posted by: The Commander Guy | May 7, 2008 9:30:40 AM
Nothing makes me happier than to finally see Hillary supporters eat crow. We said months ago that it was over, Obama was and is the nominee. She selfishly dragged this out to the party's detriment, and she doesn't care. She's all about herself, not about you. Hoodwinked in 2000 and 2004, you're lining up to be hoodwinked again. The woman is a phony, from her crocodile-tears talking about the day MLK died while she had to look down to read every line of her so-called from the heart speech, to her tobacco-chewing pick-up riding beer guzzling ridiculous performances in PA and NC. I even heard her speaking in NC the other day with a southern accent. Where did that come from, Scranton? She says she'll support Obama in the fall -- don't hold your breath. She'll undermine him so she can run in 2012, and she's got the backroom crooks in her pocket to do it. Oh well, maybe the media will finally wake up to the Paul v. Clinton court case (the biggest case of campaign fraud ever), or to the secretive "family" of right-wing power mongers she prays for victory with.
Posted by: rose | May 7, 2008 9:30:52 AM
If Obama's pastor news had broken in Jan, do you guys think he could have won Iowa & Wisconsin? If you do then you are in some dream land.
Posted by: Tom | May 7, 2008 9:32:56 AM
51-49=100 Hillary win in Indiana
56-42=98 Obama win in NC ...where is the other 2 percent hmm...
anyway the Obama bandwagon is leaving.........jump on Hillary there is plenty of room for you.
Great speech Obama, shows class & humility
Posted by: jAYjAY | May 7, 2008 9:35:37 AM
Carville is like the energizer bunny.
Hopping up and down banging his drum; running in pointless circles trying to make a noise.
Like the bunny, his sole raison d'etre is our amusement. The ultimate embodiment of a Clinton 'psychofant'.
Posted by: CT | May 7, 2008 9:36:23 AM
Tom
Hillary Lost because she was out worked and out smarted.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | May 7, 2008 9:37:28 AM
Thank God she is staying in and nothing can take away from what Bill Clinton did for this country Hillary can stay in if it was good enough for Kennedy than it should be good enough for a female who has won most of the party base any one who doesn't like it maybe should go on vacation until
sept. And I hope MSM A## is draging they want it to end now so everyone can have a break to damm bad.
Posted by: Bishop | May 7, 2008 9:39:09 AM
She will continue in order to get back her money (6.4 Million) she loaned to her campaign last month.
Posted by: Peace | May 7, 2008 9:40:30 AM
I wonder what part of West Virginia,
Kentucky and Puerto Rico Hillary will
call home.
I don't know, maybe her Grandfather had Kentucky bluegrass on his lawn in Scranton,pa; rooted for the West Virginia mountaineers while drinking Puerto Rican rum.
Posted by: Tyrone_blue | May 7, 2008 9:41:00 AM
"where is the other 2 percent hmm..."
jAYjAY, I was wondering the same thing, but I see that Mike Gravel was still on the ticket in NC, and remember that NC is John Edwards home state -- there could also have been a write-in vote for him.
Posted by: Rose | May 7, 2008 9:41:19 AM
James Carville needs to look at the numbers! Monday night quarterbacking and trying to save face. Maybe, the Clintons will dip into their personal fortune and try to continue a lost race?
Scoreboard:
Obama's state wins 32 lost 15, Delegate count 1843 +/-, Negatives are way down, Better nominee
Clinton's state wins 16 lost 31,
Delegate count 1679 +/-, Negatives way up. Not a good nominee.
Fund Raising Obama beats Clinton or McCain Expediently.
Registering new voters Obama beats Clinton or McCain.
Bring the country together Obama beats Clinton or McCain.
Overall, Obama beats Clinton or McCain.
Race against McCain, Obama better nominee.
Obama all the way!
Posted by: Lookup | May 7, 2008 9:41:58 AM
Clinton should stay in and make the superdelegates give Obama the nomination. Funny how the media is making a big deal of 23% GOP voters not voting for McCain compared with the vote against Obama the certain nominee.
Posted by: geevill | May 7, 2008 9:43:47 AM
LOL, Tyrone_blue, you've got Hillary's number. I think she'll go down into a coal mine and wistfully remember how many tons she had to haul when she was just a child, right before she goes to Puerto Rico and picks plantains just like the ones that she used to grow herself.
Posted by: rose | May 7, 2008 9:45:37 AM
Now we know, if there was any doubt, where the HRC camp got their "moving the goalposts" strategy.
Two bits from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" come to mind: the one where the wagon comes around to pick up bodies and some guy who's not quite dead is carried out, over his fruitless protests; and the scene with the Black Knight, who keeps taunting his opponent even though both arms and legs have been hacked off.
Pack your bags, James. The party's over.
Posted by: jac13 | May 7, 2008 9:48:20 AM
She is broke, she can't go on the money will stop comming in now, she has nothing to gain. She has to get her mind around the fact that she can not win. It may take a few days, weeks, but it will happen.
The press knows it now, even here on ABC, It is over.
Obama08
Posted by: Thinking | May 7, 2008 9:51:43 AM
The facts:
Neither Obama nor Clinton will have the necessary number of pledged delegates to win. Hillary won both Michigan and Florida - no doubt about it. The delegates are not being counted but the votes are there.Obama is a blatant manipulator, megalomaniac and chronic liar, fundamentally interested in himself. On top of his poor judgement he is a man without any executive experience. So Wright introduced him to Jesus. What a joke!
Posted by: Luis | May 7, 2008 9:55:23 AM
The facts:
Neither Obama nor Clinton will have the necessary number of pledged delegates to win. Hillary won both Michigan and Florida - no doubt about it. The delegates are not being counted but the votes are there.Obama is a blatant manipulator, megalomaniac and chronic liar, fundamentally interested in himself. On top of his poor judgement he is a man without any executive experience. So Wright introduced him to Jesus. What a joke!
Posted by: Luis | May 7, 2008 9:56:18 AM
Clinton backers keep asking why he can't close the deal, well the question should be, why can't she overtake his lead, something to be said about a well known senator that can't win her own patry's primary to a junior senator...
Posted by: Joe | May 7, 2008 10:02:02 AM
6. Watch Obama got destroyed in the election
Posted by: geevill | May 7, 2008 10:05:46 AM
6. Watch Obama get destroyed in the election
Posted by: geevill | May 7, 2008 10:05:52 AM
Wonder what the delay was in the Indiana results last night. Me thinks a little tampering was transpiring. Notice how close the county was to Illinois and Chicago.
Hillary was ahead and they did their level best to beat her dishonestly. Nice try !!!
Posted by: Bill Elliott | May 7, 2008 10:07:14 AM
Hillary is in it until she gets Obama to pay off her campaign debt. Don't doubt it, her negotiators are after him already. Obama might do it to keep the peace, but I hope he doesn't. After she took her campaign down into the sewer, he owes her nothing and he'll win the nomination anyway.
Posted by: Rose | May 7, 2008 10:08:10 AM
Of course, James Carville wants Hillary to stay in. Otherwise, he has nothing to do with this election cycle should Hillary drop out. Like Hillary, Carville only thinks about himself, not the party.
Posted by: David Jones | May 7, 2008 10:14:14 AM
Thanks, Savage Truth, for proving that MORE writing has nothing to do with INTELLIGENT writing.
Posted by: Rose | May 7, 2008 10:29:42 AM
luis you are right on,carville is telling it like it is and obama is only interested in ob,are his supporters stupid? or do they not get it,he dumped his white grandmother and wright after TWENTY YEARS for political reasons,we need HILLARY ALL THE WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: SHIRLEY ROYBAL | May 7, 2008 10:34:30 AM
john, I agree with your comments completely. Unfortunately, too many of Hillary supporters buy into what crat3 is spouting....at least passively by not calling folks like him out.
Posted by: indy_voter | May 7, 2008 10:37:34 AM
I will support Hillary to the end. As Carville pointed out, she should stay in all the way to the convention.
If Obama does receive the nod, like many Hillary supporters, I will never vote for Obama, and it has nothing to do with sour grapes. My vote will be based on support for someone with integrity, experience , and honor. Obama has never possessed any of these qualities. I will also never vote for someone who delivers speeches about inclusion, but has never practiced it.
Are Hillary supporters disappointed? Yes, we are, but that doesn't mean that we'll suddenly abandon our principles and swing our support to Obama. It has nothing to do with being punitive. It has everything to do with our integrity and commitment to remain true to what we believe in. We don't believe in Obama, nor do we believe he will change our country for the better. Many of us firmly believe quite the opposite will happen.
As for writing Hillary's name in, that won't help much, unfortunately. To stop Obama I will vote for McCain. As a life long democrat, I will vote for McCain because he does have integrity and honor, Obama doesn't.
Posted by: Emily | May 7, 2008 10:40:43 AM
geevil - no one is talking about Obama's electability for two reasons: idiots have coined electability as a new code word for racism and the exit polls show he now has a severe problem appealing to rural and white male voters - both are needed to win the GE. The political posturing has begun in the face of evidence of potential corruption in Guam (where only Obama had paid staff) and in IN (where a pro-Obama Mayor held back vote tallies - missing for 3 hours). Additional political game play in favor of Obama by the DNC was in preventing gas price legislation from coming out and they are still hiding the details. An obvious ploy in favor of Obama designed to skew public opinion. They control the schedule, prevented Clinton's bill from being considered, and stacked the schedule for the primaries while disenfranchising FL in violation of their own rules to benefit Obama.
Posted by: DCVoter | May 7, 2008 11:08:56 AM
Is 12% of the population going to elect Obama. I don't think so. If you live by the race card, you die by the race card.
Just where is the largest base of the Democrat Party? James Carville is a great Democrat, and he knows. We do,too, and all of you hate mongers who support the Great Unifier will find out very soon. Hope, Change, Unity! What a laugh!
Posted by: georgia | May 7, 2008 12:17:32 PM
"of course she's going to stay in the race"! The question is Why?
She absolutely cannot win!
The only reason is is staying in is to
make sure that Obama loses the
General Election and she can say
I told you so in 2012!
But Hillary and her crowd of lemmings
will be in for a big surprise in 2012!
The Democrats will not forgive her for
sabotaging Obama's campaign and certainly will not reward her with the 2012 nomination!
Posted by: reaganfan | May 7, 2008 12:24:25 PM
Super delegates do your Job!
End this process now!
Posted by: reaganfan | May 7, 2008 12:33:53 PM
Carville is just so classless that it is hard for me to take him seriously.
Posted by: MovieWatcher | May 7, 2008 1:20:57 PM
There is something fishy in Tuna Town.
First, Gary, Ind didn't start reporting votes until AFTER the paper deadline was passed for the night. I watched the interview on CNN and he was UNABLE to explain this. He was an Obama supporter. Bob Beckle called the mayor and asked why the votes weren't coming in,and the mayor stated how many votes do you want? This is an old style chicago trick to keep one county out and make up the difference with phoney votes.
Second, those polls conducted on the NC race that showed the votes tightening. I'd like to analyze the pollsters. I bet they were Obama supporters deliberately showing the race tightening...so they could seem as if their candidate was doing better than expected on election night. WIth the overwhelming percentage of black voters in NC it was impossible for Hillary Clinton to be polling within 5 percentage points!
Why is there no reporting on these aspects of the campaign?
The Obama people will stop at NOTHING!
Clinton supporters will stop Obama in the general.
OH YES WE WILL!
Posted by: Tom | May 7, 2008 1:28:09 PM
I'm astounded that there are Democrat's praying for the demise of Barack Obama as our Presidential candidate in the General Election. Choosing instead to have another 4 years of Bush Jr. Policy's and an almost CERTAIN war with Iran. The economy is in shambles and the country has never been so divided...the Democratic party included.
It would be un-American to not accept Obama's victory which happened UNDER THE RULES set by the Democratic National Committee and agreed upon by all that were involved. Including Senator Clinton's two biggest supporters who PUSHED for the unseating of the delegates from FL and MI.
Let's focus on beating McCain. Any Hillary Clinton supporter that even has an inkling about voting for McCain please read Taylor Marsh's (one of the most loyal Hillary supporters/pundits, and an Obama smearer) latest posting in which she says that this is about the Democratic Party...not one candidate.
I pray for my children's future that you guys might come to your senses.
Posted by: Joao | May 7, 2008 3:03:01 PM
I just want to THANK (Proud NC Obama supporter) for those well spoken words. Though we differ in age, color, ethnicity etc., as an AMERICAN I agree with you and PROUD to say it. For all of those who seem so spew such hateful and vengeful (I will vote McCain cuz Hillary aint nominated blah, blah, blah), come on people, the man won... Simply put, he won and the voters spoke. Now let's unite to get "OUR COUNTRY BACK"!!!!!
Posted by: WhatTheCountryStands4 | May 7, 2008 3:19:14 PM
Hey, Geevil:
No one HAS to make the argument that Obama is electable, because, um...well...he's WINNING--all the metrics, across the board.
Consider this, a virtual unknown on the national scene, beat the best brand name the democrats had--among democrats--...what does that say about that brand ame?
No Rep/Dem polls mean anything until the people have a chance to see the two candidates side to side.
Otherwise, people in the democratic party are still voting their personal primary preference. Once that is no longer a factor, the polls will reflect that very few women from the Democratic party will vote for McCain, because of his 20+ long record on womens' issues.
Lower income voters will have to ask themselves who is a better choice for them, given the recession and the pledge McCain has madeto continuing the Bush tax cuts...again, I really think that's a no-brainer.
Obama won this fair and square. He did not break the rules or change the goal posts. MI and FL are NOT his doing or his fault.
The longer she stays in the more damage she does to her reputation and legacy.
She can't change reality.
If something terrible happens to Obama, I think the party would look to Gore, honestly and not to Clinton because of the way she's run since Ohio.
Posted by: Irene | May 7, 2008 4:29:09 PM
Why would she get out of the race? Of course she's going to stay in the race," said Carville. "I'm a sports fan, and no one ever ends a game before it’s over," he added. Go Carville! Americans don't give up or throw in the towel. She is a proud American. I'm personally tired of seeing the ads on some of the networks that its all over, or that Obama is the nominee or that the superdelegates are moving to Obama---NONE moved today. They are concerned as they can see that Obama got the black vote ONLY and not the White vote. This is not a man for all people.
Posted by: Anne | May 7, 2008 7:26:20 PM
I find it very interesting that all these Clinton supporters are talking about integrity. She have been proven to ba a liar many times. Do you remember the whole Bosnia landing? Well, I just think that she will try to say anything to make her look better than Obama, even if she has to lie. I think that Obama has shown that he is a better person. He seems to be focusing on the issues and moving forward.
Posted by: Scott | May 7, 2008 8:09:58 PM
I Think the women of America will be a force to be reckoned with if the media and the democratic party don't recognize our voice. The Dnc and the media have played a very disengenous game. When they call hillary all those names , we take it personally. Keep going Hillary , be our voice to let America know what truly matters.
Posted by: Carol | May 8, 2008 7:30:08 AM
When and who will expose Obama while he was attending Harvard and Columbia?
Surely there will be tidbits of information that will reveal his association with other students with socialistic views.
We all know of the Harvard Law Review where he writ nothing or did anything regarding the HLR. Another election unopposed with an expected outcome.
Posted by: FromTheTop | May 8, 2008 4:18:45 PM
Hillary should stay in. Let the Superdelegates decide. When they go back and face their constitutents they will pay the price in November. Hillary should not just hand Obama her supporters. He hardly did any work to earn his.
Posted by: Alex | May 8, 2008 10:31:23 PM
Carvile,keep backing up Clinton,She deserves good friend like yourself.
People should question the fact Indiana's votes didn't come out til after 1:00 in the morning.Is it possible,the votes could have been tampered with before they were released. Clinton's camp should have had the votes checked again.Maybe she did win by a larger margin. I guess we will never no for sure.
Hillary supporters should be sticking with her,at her lowest time, Not leaving her,because she's down. That's what friends are for, to lift them up.
Posted by: P wilson | May 9, 2008 12:28:04 AM
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