Clinton Team Braced For Obama To Take The Lead

[WillyT]

Clinton team braced for Obama to take the lead
February votes could see symbolic moment in delegate race

Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Saturday February 9, 2008
The Guardian

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Hillary Clinton's campaign team is bracing for Barack Obama to take the lead later this month for the first time in the battle for the all-important delegates who will decide the Democratic nomination. The race looks poised to swing his way after a series of votes, beginning today with caucuses in Washington state, Nebraska and the Virgin Islands and a primary in Louisiana.

The Clinton campaign team anticipates that she will lose her lead in the delegate count this month but is banking on her regaining the lead in the mega-states of Texas and Ohio on March 4 and Pennsylvania on April 22. It will be psychologically and symbolically important for Obama to take the lead after trailing for so long, albeit not by much. He is already ahead of his rival in fundraising.

The Clinton campaign is expected to change its tack following the emergence of John McCain as the likely Republican adversary. The Clinton camp is expected to argue that she is better placed to deal with McCain on security and economics. Her team is also expected to bring up a testy exchange of letters between McCain and Obama in 2006. McCain accused Obama of backtracking on a promise to support him over a bill to restrict lobbying. He accused Obama of "self-interested partisan posturing". Obama responded to say he was "puzzled" by McCain's outburst.

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Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/hillaryclinton/story/0,,2254983,00.html

:shrug:

[lligrd]

1. Uh Oh - Put Your Helmet On

Incoming.

[TwilightGardener]

2. What, Hillary is going to take McInsane's side on his crazy nasty letter?

I don't know why she would bring that up. Bizarre.

[Cha]

6. hiliary will do anything she thinks

is necessary to get her back in the power seat. Their thinking is skewed, though, so with enough rope..

[TwilightGardener]

7. Can you imagine Hillary and McCain, buddies that they are, colluding

with each other to wreck Obama somehow--because Hillary wants to win the primary, and McCain wants to face her in the general? The way McCain colluded with Huckleberry to get Romney out of the race? Ack--I shudder.

[Cha]

8. Didn't limpbaughs already

say he would "raise money for hilary because if Obama got it they were dead in the water"?

[blm]

3. Obama owned McCain on that exchange. Why would Clintons side with McCain on that?

Oh yeah - we've seen this act before, haven't we?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1k0nUWEQg

Mustn't get in the way of a Clinton and a camera when there is a Democrat to be attacked.

[K Gardner]

4. ROFL.. "puzzled by McCain's outburst". I can't wait for HRC to try to gain traction with this.

[sfam]

5. Hillary and McCain, sitting in a tree...

Is it really a great idea for Hillary to cozy up with McCain? I think not. This REALLY enforces the narrative that Hillary is McCain-lite, but without the anti-earmark position.

If Hillary tries this thing with the letter, she's really gonna have to be careful that it doesn't fling right back on her...offhand this sounds too complicated to stick very well, and a significant stretch to say that Obama's "I'm puzzled by your response" message = "Obama has no idea how to deal with someone like McCain"...