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Carville: 'Of Course' Clinton is Staying in Race

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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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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

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

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 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

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