Hillary-Obama: So is this thing over, or what?
WASHINGTON _ Hillary Clinton’s aides advanced some tortured logic this morning on why their candidate should be the nominee.
Despite her shellacking by Barack Obama in North Carolina and narrow victory in Indiana yesterday, Clinton’s strategists insisted this morning that they were pleased with the outcome and that Clinton’s candidacy would go forward. Clinton internal polls showed she came from far back to do as well as she did, they said. They trumpeted her victory among white voters in North Carolina and asserted that she was outspent.
“Sen. Obama has not yet proven that he can win the key swing states. He has not yet proven that he can win the votes of blue collar voters. That will be the crux of arguments we make to superdelegates,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson told reporters, noting that Clinton would be meeting with some uncommitted superdelegates on Capitol Hill this afternoon.
Wolfson acknowledged that it is uncertain how news of Clinton’s latest loans to her campaign – totalling $6.4 million — will be met. Earlier in the campaign, her $5 million loan and news that her candidacy was in financial straits generated an outpouring of contributions that have helped to take her this far.
That brings her loans to her campaign to $11.25 million, more than she has made from her book proceeds and as a senator. But Wolfson noted that she is entitled to tap into Clinton family money.
“I can’t predict what the reaction will be this time,” he said. “I think that our supporters are impressed with Sen. Clinton’s dedication. I think they’re impressed with her willingness to continue this contest in the face of so many voices telling her to get out. I think Sen. Clinton’s fortitude and her commitment is something her supporters admire.”
But will it be a waste of money? Obama’s strong North Carolina victory yesterday render all but impossible the potential of Clinton overtaking him in the popular vote, which she hoped would be part of her argument to superdelegates.
Obama is certain to be well ahead in pledged delegates and it’s unlikely that a resolution for seating Florida and Michigan delegates will make a dent in his lead.
So is it all over but the shouting and the pouting?
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