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In March 2007, a CNN poll found Hillary Clinton leading the primary field with 37 percent of Democratic support. Barack Obama came in second place with 22 percent. The 15-point gap was significant, but hardly insurmountable.
I dunno, 15 points sounds pretty insurmountable to me. Otherwise, incisive commentary.
Excellent VP material. Clinton/O’Malley has a nice ring, too. Dems should just go ahead and declare them the nominees, and marshall their resources for the campaign. Meantime they can hoot and holler watching the Repub slugfest.
O’Malley had his chance at the '12 convention and his speech bombed.
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“O’Malley, by contrast, still hasn’t revealed his intentions, saying on Sunday he will decide this spring.”
Spring began on March 20th. If O’Malley thinks HRC is running and he plans to run too,he should already be a candidate and out raising money and putting staffs together in key states. If he’s waiting for her to implode then jump into the race,it ain’t gonna happen. It might stink that any other candidate besides HRC is gonna have a tough time raising enough money to be/stay competitive,but it is what it is and it’s not HRC’s fault.
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I’d rather see Clinton/Castro … give Castro a serious role ala Biden, and Dems could be set up for success for 12-16 years, depending on whether Hillary goes one or two terms.
Luckily for Obama, he had spoken out against it at the time while Clinton voted for the war authorization bill that President George W. Bush used to launch the invasion. This was a huge factor that made Obama look like he had the foresight to oppose what Democrats saw as one of America’s most disastrous mistakes, unlike Clinton.
How does nonsense make it past an editor? Or maybe no one gives a camel turd.
Why was it “luck” that Obama had a different policy position than Clinton? Is it is just luck that he said what he thought? Either way this is total gibberish.
Why did opposing the war before it started only make it “look Like” he had foresight? How is that not ACTUAL foresight. Lots and lots of people had ACTUAL foresight about those events, too. Most of them voted for Obama.
Again, this is garbage writing.
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Not clear what you mean. It was surmounted.
certainly nothing like 62% to 1%
A sitting vice president has not been elected president since g.h.w. bush almost 30 years. It simply does not automatically follow. I’d rather not see a talented Castro become a has-been because he spent eight years bolstering HRC. On the other hand, being a Latino may have a trajectory toward the Executive Office no one can yet anticipate. I’ve also said I don’t think HRC should ask a woman to join the ticket; it will bring hating and shaming and chauvinism like nothing else could.
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Wait, Clinton is for Wall Street reform? When did that happen?
She’s supported Dodd-Frank and Warren’s CFPB, and getting rid of the carried-interest loophole, just to cite two examples. How hard would she push for such policies, and more, as president? Depends on how strong the progressive House and Senate caucuses will be.
A sitting vice president has not been elected president since g.h.w. bush almost 30 years. It simply does not automatically follow.
Not only that, but the last time it happened before Bush was Martin Van Buren, in 1836. And you could argue that Bush was just following the recent Republican tradition of nominating the second-place finisher from the previous contested primary race.
It’s important for beltway reporters to marginalize any anti-war sentiment, whenever possible.
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Odd how the myth of VEEP to Presidency path has endured.
It’s certainly a way to minimize Obama’s “foresight”, and to cast Obama as “lucky”, which is a recurring motif among political reporters.
It appears to be surprisingly difficult for many to give Obama the credit he is due so they (perhaps unwittingly) fall back on the “Obama is lucky” theme.
There’s something profoundly ugly about all of this, but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Having a female president and a male vice president will be another hurdle for our nation to clear.
Editors? You’re not a noob. You should know better.
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Josh is the one who calls himself Editor, right?
I can call myself the Emperor of the Lunar Highlands, doesn’t mean I show up for work there.