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Clinton: 'This is Nowhere Near Over'
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ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton, in advance of the possibility that the Obama campaign will declare victory on Tuesday based on an advantage in pledged delegates, told a crowd Monday morning that a Democratic nominee will not be determined by tomorrow.
"This is nowhere near over. None of us is going to have the number of delegates we're going to need to get to the nomination. Although I understand – my opponents and his supporters are going to claim that - and the fact is we have to include Michigan and Florida." Clinton continued, "We cannot claim we have a nominee based on 48 states, particularly two states that are so important for us to win in the fall. So part of our challenge is making sure that we nominate the person most able to win. And I believe that I'm the stronger candidate."
Clinton said later in her speech, "I'm gonna make my case and I'm gonna make it until we have a nominee - but were not going to have one today and we're not going to have one tomorrow and we're not going to have one the next day. And if Kentucky turns out tomorrow, I will be closer to that nomination."
Clinton also added, as she first mentioned Sunday night at a fundraiser in Kentucky, that she has endured this long campaign so that a Democrat could win the presidency. Careful not to say Obama could not win the general election, Clinton implied, as she has in the past, that he is a riskier choice saying, "anybody who is really analyzing this and saying 'OK we did not go through this long campaign to lose in the fall.' We can not afford to have four more years of a Republican president."
Speaking at a high school in Maysville, KY, Clinton supported that argument saying, "the states that I have won total 300 electoral votes. If we had the same rules as the Republicans, I would be the nominee right now. We have different rules so what we've got to figure out is who can win 270 electoral votes. My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes. Now we both have some states that are going to be hard for us to win in the fall like Texas and Oklahoma. But I still have a cushion if you look at all the states that I've won and take out those that may not be in our column come the fall. My opponent has 217 electoral votes including places like Alaska and Idaho and Utah and Kansas and Nebraska. And many of his votes and his delegates come from caucus states which have a relatively low turnout."
Clinton asked for a big turnout tomorrow saying, "if Kentucky votes big tomorrow we are gonna to keep going, and were gonna keep fighting and we are going to keep making our case because you cant win the presidency without winning Kentucky."
May 19, 2008 in Bush, George W., Kucinich, Dennis | Permalink | User Comments (266)
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Nat Turner What is your trip? You supposedly are supporting a candidate who's about hope, unity and change and yet you write that offensive and classist junk? You're a hypocrite and I have no idea why you would possibly vote for someone who's message is so removed from yourself. Obama needs to clean his own house before he gets to the White House.
Posted by: alpaig | May 19, 2008 1:12:35 PM
John,
I suspected as much. There is BIG dirt to come out on Obama and that's why Hillary is sticking around. It's just the timing that not sure. It probably won't come out until after the convention when the DNC will look like idiots for nominating this LOSER. But I guess they're just really good at picking LOSERS - Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, ...OOOH the list goes on. Seems to me the only winner they had in YEARS was a CLINTON.
GO HILLARY!!
Posted by: Get Real | May 19, 2008 1:14:05 PM
hey Texas Voter... Bill Clinton was the bright spot there... you seem to ignore the other duds... Hey i lived through those losses and as a democrat I know why they lost .... something democrats like you still haven't figured out ....the real world
Posted by: Nick | May 19, 2008 1:14:16 PM
I know deep down inside that Obama will be the next President of the United States.
I just can't fathom the idea of having a breath of fresh air in politics after being in the dungeon of mental apathy.
I promise to get better.
Posted by: NCDem | May 19, 2008 1:15:48 PM
I truly apologize for my ignorant posts about Obama and the next POTUS.
I understand that there is a wave of hope that rhetoric and whining will and cannot stop.
YES I CAN TOO!
Posted by: NCDem | May 19, 2008 1:18:11 PM
The larger crowds BHO draws, the greater loss he will maintain.
Posted by: fat cat | May 19, 2008 1:20:23 PM
Texas voter... I'm trying to figure out what you are arguing... if you read my post I never contend Hillary will win... in fact I suggest just the opposite... I just think that Obama is a weaker candidate in November... as democrats we have a habit of doing that
Posted by: Nick | May 19, 2008 1:22:27 PM
Texas Voter,
How come you didn't mention the latest Gallup Poll that has show Clinton CONSISTENTLY ahead of McCain (albeit by just 3 to 5 points)for over a week, while little Obama has been lagging behind and is struggling to even keep even? He CAN'T and WON'T win the GE!!!
Posted by: Get Real | May 19, 2008 1:26:53 PM
NCdem...how do you figure OB has stolen anything? He camein as the underdog and HRC has just as much opportunity to win those states as Obama...My God...please...would you Hillary get with the program.It's over...
Posted by: truthtell | May 19, 2008 1:28:57 PM
NCDEM IS A REPUBLICAN
We'll see who's dilusional come August. For obvious reasons her campaign can't be the one to leak it.
Posted by: Get Real | May 19, 2008 1:30:44 PM
Obama rigged the election? Are you mad Clinton supporters. Go see a doctor.
Posted by: Jason | May 19, 2008 1:30:46 PM
but it is done blanche... it is.
Posted by: dl | May 19, 2008 1:31:40 PM
Nick,
You sound like one of those limbaugh-listeners that was hoping Hillary would win the nod because the GOP thinks they have a chance against her. They are scared to death to go against Obama. He had a crowd of 80,000 at a rally in Oregon the other day.. Can you imagine mc-more-war trying to get that kind of enthusiasm? Look for a landslide against mc-more-war in the fall. Obama 2008!!
Posted by: pt | May 19, 2008 1:33:55 PM
Talk about petty....yezzzz...you HRC supoporter need to get with the program. No matter who wins we need to defat McCain!!!! My God....You are all just as vindictive and egotisical as HRC...If Hillary get s the nod, which I doubt, I will take a deep breath and vote HRC....NEVER MCCAIN....
Posted by: truthtell | May 19, 2008 1:34:13 PM
AWAKE...please go back to your GOP site and leave us alone. You are fooling no one. Typing in CPAS doens't make your point any better.
No Democrat would vote for McCain over Obama. To suggest so is absurd and ignorant of the turht that HRC and BHO have basically the same policies.
Posted by: Jason | May 19, 2008 1:35:41 PM
My nominee is Barack Obama.
Clinton and all the 'single cause' haters can play all they want - we march on.
Posted by: PulSamsara | May 19, 2008 1:37:07 PM
Obama is only bad to the GOP operative and bitter sore loser Clinton supporters.
If you had anything bad to say, in truthm, you would say it. All that we see is here is more of the same rhetoric bigotry.
You have nothing ot offer but your opinion, and judging by the opinion of the rest of the great nation, they love and trust Obama more than McCain or Hillary.
I'm sorry that you are bitter because you old school politics don;t work anymore. Too bad for you.
Posted by: Jason | May 19, 2008 1:38:08 PM
State by state means nothing. total votes, total delegates, mena EVERYTHING.
Stop trying to change the rules AGAIN...Hillary...again? please...not again? You can't keep changing the rules, this isn't the Republicna party, we play by Dem rules....the same rules that you had NO PROBLEM following when your husband was elected.
Posted by: Jason | May 19, 2008 1:40:07 PM
AWAKE....My God, wake up!!! If the case was in reverse Hillary would be LOVING the caucases...Yezzz...She has been a part of this process for 30 years. Her problem was underestimating the caucases. She should have studied them and been ready to participate...HRC you loose...
Posted by: truthtell | May 19, 2008 1:40:08 PM
Hey Texas Voter...if you are suggesting the Sd will or should overturn the popular vote and the delgate count, I have a gridge for sale you should buy some of. $100 a brick.
Posted by: Jason | May 19, 2008 1:41:13 PM
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