Posted by
Logical Party on Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:00:00 PM
Pennsylvania Can't Come Soon Enough for Clinton
by David DiBello
J. Shawn Dunston (Metro NY) made a few omissions and errors regarding the Clinton legacy and Hillary’s potential. First, votes going to Ross Perot in the ’92 election can be equally divided between Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton since Perot drew from the Conservative Right, Libertarians and Liberals dissatisfied with the centrist Clinton. Even if Bill took a third of Perot’s 19 percent, that would have put him over the top of half the electorate. In 1996, Clinton was a hair shy of 50%, again the result of a three party election.
Second, Hillary has more than diversion of the electorate’s attention span due to the NCAA tournament and summer vacations. She now has a resume actively depicting her ability to win the mega states Barack cannot. The Obama factor has taken advantage of her underestimation of his candidacy along with her own belief in her inevitability, and he has waged heavy organization, especially in caucus states that restrict votes, which Hillary did not feel needed. She is looking down the road at a landslide victory in Pennsylvania which will really turn the heads of Super Delegates, along with victories in Michigan, blue collar headquarters, and Florida, where she already received 50% of vote where all names appeared on ballot. The DNC would definitely have trouble with an Obama candidacy that couldn’t win California, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The plans are in the works for these states to be re-voted because neither candidate will reach 2,024 margin needed for victory, and as Gloria Borga of CNN exclaimed, “the votes have to come from somewhere.” This will ease the anger of those who feel disenfranchised, something the Democrats know all too well. For those sticklers about rules, whether those rules are ridiculous or not, they can take comfort in knowing the rule is one must reach 2,204. Any lower allocation would violate that precept.
Bottom line is Hillary has more than Calendar to look forward; she has major potential after Tuesday’s victories. In her campaign, April 22nd can’t come soon enough.