Bill Richardson: out on a limb
The New Mexico governor and Clintonista is still a figure of fun.
By Mark Kilmer Posted in 2008 | Bill Richardson | Hillary | Obama — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It looks like New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who refused to endorse anyone on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, might be ready to call the Dem race after this evening.
Marc Ambinder offers this:
Per Howard Fineman on MSNBC, Bill Richardson is telling advisers that should Hillary Clinton win Ohio and Texas, the Democratic race is "wide open." Should Barack Obama win, "it's over."
Clinton (Hillary) could win Texas and Ohio this evening and not dent her delegate deficit, gov, but nice beard.
It's over. Electoral math is not that tricky.
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and I see how it could have merit, but I again refer you to the electoral math. If Hillary does not gain huge gobs of delegates this evening, she does not gain on Rove but there are that many fewer delegates in contention after tonight. Thus dwindle Hillary's possibilities. It would be too late in the game for anything less than a tsunami of momentum to affect the outcome.
Obama CANNOT clinch the nomination either. Either way, whether it's Hillary or Obama, the nomination is going to hinge on superdelegates.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
And it may be so, but talk amongst the superdelegates, at least those who talk, is that they will go either with the winner of their district/State -- most of which went for Obama -- or with the leader in delegates overall. (There are the few who were made chairs and such in one of the campaigns, but they've bee prepurchased.)
If Hillary wins Ohio and Texas, it will probably be narrowly and she won't gain any delegates. Might even lose a little ground. That is not a momentum builder, even if you factor in, as does Hillary, the amount of money spent.
Remember, Barry has the money and the organization and unless Hillary sweeps Mississippi, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Puerto Rico -- not going to happen, probably -- I don't think she'd be able to make much of a case to the superdelegates unless this race is to be determined by something other than the outcome of these nominating contests, such as Rezco developments.
electoral math is not that difficult. i think billy has a good point, though. billary would have stopped obama's omentum in its tracks. that would be a really big deal. plus, it would have happened because of the 3am ad and some sort of strange awakening in the democrat party that would seemingly indicate that they have realized that president nobama would be in way over his head. that's something that can carry over.
this reminds me of that ludacris song about the hozone layer and stuff like that.