4 blog reactions to http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_campaigns_on_.html
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Campaign Diaries
76 days ago · Authority: 71she writes, "I'm going to keep fighting for what I believe in until every voter has had his or her say." But Clinton seems to have given up on a confrontational attitude and they are unlikely to try to draw major contrasts from now on. Ben Smith reports the lack of contrasts in Clinton's stump speech this morning. This is essentially the position Huckabee was in before he dropped out on March 4th. The question, of course, is whether superdelegates, the media, and Democratic elders will let her go on.
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Stuff I should have blogged - End-game edition
to Obama, joining three new Obama supers. New Clinton superdelegate cancels her Virginia loss. Net +4 for Obama, 0 for Clinton. Senators Feinstein and Schumer, both Clinton backers, make noises about her departure. Clinton drops her Obama attacks in West Virginia campaign stop. Says her political base is stronger place to start from than Obama's. Clinton chief strategist says NC represented progress because she won whites. Clinton surrogate says it is
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Stay in, Hillary
for Clinton to stay in the race. No. 2 and No. 7 are similar to the points I make here; No. 3 and No. 5 make good additional arguments; No. 1 and No. 4 made me vomit a bit inside my mouth. Also, Ben Smith reports that Clinton stayed positive in her West Virginia appearance today. Know hope? After Barack Obama's impressive victory margin last night in North Carolina and a near-win in Indiana, it seems almost everyone not residing in Hillaryland has concluded the
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