Darlings, pleeease, don't make me beg!Hillary's had a compelling candidacy on many fronts. She's clearly gotten better, even if she has gone off the rails, too. Based on what I'm reading, even with a generous allotment from Michigan and Florida, Hillary cannot overtake Obama's lead in elected delegates. It's over.
With nothing left to contest except the margin of defeat, it is time for the super delegates to declare. It's Superdelegate Day, without question.
What's more the GOP are revving up their "define Obama" engines, hitting early, as they must do, to take advantage of people not *really* knowing "Obama" in the way they know the Clinton name.
With nothing left to contest except the margin of defeat, it is time for the super delegates to declare.
It's Superdelegate day without question.
The DNC needs to launch the *strategic* counter-campaign, now, presently, urgently. I assume that can only be done if they know who the candidate is (am I wrong)?It's Superdelegate day without question.
THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN
They need more game.
Halperin has noticed it on the trail, too. They have to start making the transition and looking beyond the race that is in front of them, so to speak, to winning the ideas race and the fight for the independent voters. Outside the speech on race, Act II, frankly hasn't been impressive in the first scenes. Let's see if they can get a strong finish in before the Act III curtain rises on them, unprepared.
Obama has shown that he can drop the ball, in situations that he underestimates or for which he is inadequately prepared, such as the Pennsylvania debate. That makes him unnecessarily volatile, as an asset, as a quantity. To prevent that from overshadowing his otherwise rock-solid consistency, he has planning and control work to do, because consistency makes a champion. If he isn't getting the right foil from his campaign, he needs new blood, possibly (it's really hard to say from such a great distance).
If he's gunshy with the press, he's got to get over that too. Hillary did the full round this morning - everyone! I don't know if it is Barack's energy level or what at work. She's more visible than he is, and she's the one everyone knows all about already!
