Tipping Maryland To Sen. Clinton?

12:11 pm EST May 9th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

It sure looks like it.

Gov. Martin O’Malley will endorse Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a campaign rally in Annapolis Wednesday and has begun encouraging his supporters to back her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, sources familiar with his plans said.

The governor’s endorsement is hardly a surprise — when speaking in the abstract about the next president, O’Malley has been known to use the pronoun "she" — but it would solidify Clinton’s position in the race for Maryland’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

She’s got Sen. Barb on her team as well, and frankly she seems to be putting together a lot of endorsements from coast to coast. That continues to solidify my belief that no other campaigns in the field right now are anywhere near as organized or focused as hers. And in 2008, that’s probably more important than individual issue positions.

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7 Responses to “Tipping Maryland To Sen. Clinton?”

  1. mike in dc says:
    May 9, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    I think a 3-way race where Hillary has a high single digit/low double digit lead, and where the number 2 guy leads the number 3 guy by a similar margin, is a formula for a Clinton nomination. Unless Edwards is able to make up more ground in polling and fundraising, in my opinion he should drop out and immediately endorse Obama. If Gore were also to endorse him later this year, I think he’d have an excellent shot at unifying the alternative to Hillary and winning the nomination.

    In the alternative, if Edwards were to make up a lot of ground at Obama’s expense, it might make sense for Obama to drop out and endorse Edwards.

  2. news4u says:
    May 9, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Hillary’s campaign definitely seems to winning more than its fair share of support from both politicians and the public. No surprise that she got O’Malley’s support. No doubt she solidified all the political connections she needed to in DC’s backyard back when he and her hubby were in the White House.

    You can check out some local coverage of the endorsement here:

    http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/286543/Local

  3. Anonymous says:
    May 9, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    Did Hillary or Obama get the endorsement of Virginia’s Tim Kaine? Did Hillary or Obama get the support of TN Congressman Jim Cooper? Was Hillary or Obama able to go everywhere in 2006 to campaign for everyone in 2006? The answer to those questions is the answer for our party. O’Malley has stilted realtions with the 40% of black voters who make up Maryland’s electorate. He could never swing them to Hill.

  4. Wellstone says:
    May 9, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    Hillary is in the position of front-runner, and it takes a special kind of focus and determination to pull ahead, and then hold onto a lead and win.

    Every news cycle, every political event, every decision is a potential pitfall; her competition will look for the first sign of fatigue or lack of focus or desire and try to capitalize.

    There’s still months and months before the first primary, and she’s no shoo-in; remember ’04, Iowa, and Howard Dean.

    Factor in the highest negative ratings of any candidate, millions of anti-Hillary and anti-Clinton dollars spent for 20 years, and you see her problem.

    She has NO margin for error, no comfort zone, no respite, no chance to relax, no chance to recharge her batteries.

    It’s a tribute to her mental toughness, her drive, her determination, her will to win that she is still leading the pack despite Obama, despite Edwards’ push, despite calls for Al Gore to rescue the Democratic Party.

    She is beginning to look to me like Jack Nicklaus or Tiger on the Friday of a major, like Michael Jordan or Kobe or Nash in the early 4th quarter of an important game, like Griese in game 16 of the Perfect Season in 1972: She, like these champions, is determined to do what it takes, to make the sacrifices she needs to keep her lead and win.

    More importantly, she and these have on emore thing in common: They just simply know how to refuse to lose.

  5. Marty says:
    May 9, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    It’ll be a Clinton-Richardson ticket. Hill doesn’t need Obama for the black vote, but Richardson will be nice to shore up some of the Hispanic vote that votes Republican.

    That will be her trump card.

  6. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    May 10, 2007 at 3:28 am

    “It’ll be a Clinton-Richardson ticket.”

    That’s a good ticket and they compliment each other well. I also like Edwards – Obama, but I don’t think that will happen at this point. For Obama is all or nothing so Obama – Edwards would be more likely, but that would make Edwards the VP choice two elections in a row, don’t think that’s ever happened before, (not counting incumbents).

  7. merlallen says:
    May 10, 2007 at 5:41 am

    since 1980 there has been a bush or Clinton every goddamn time. enough. At least chickengeorge has sunk Jeb!s chances, thank God.