I’m not wild about the polling that’s been done this cycle – and clearly nobody should pay any attention to Zogby polls, but I think this Gallup poll is of note: Sen. Obama leads Sen. Clinton 52% to 42%, now I’m sure after they’ve cited these numbers before the Clinton campaign (and their blogosphere apologists) will tell us this doesn’t matter, but Sen. Clinton has lost more ground for her attacks on Obama and lies about Bosnia than Sen. Obama ever did over the trumped up Jeremiah Wright “controversy”.
Sen. Clinton can protest the nomination all the way up to inauguration day if she likes, there’s no law that says she has to drop out, but after she’s given a victory in Pennsylvania, Sen. Obama and I believe the superdelegates can start focusing on Sen. Obama’s fight vs. John Mccain this November.
UPDATE: Yes, we can.
Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama’s side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s seven Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group — just one has so far — before that state’s May 6 primary, several Democrats say.
“and clearly nobody should pay any attention to Zogby polls,”
Or ARG.
My heart will sing when they start coming out in droves for Senator Obama and finally put this Clinton death march to rest!
Or Gallup according to the annointed queen.
“Oh, he’s only leading in places that are irrelevant. Anyone with half a brain knows he’s unelectable!”
Amazing how the polling is related to news cycles, ain’t it? THe Media build up, the Media tear down.
The Gallup, Zogby, all these polls ARE irrelevant right now. They only show the extent to which the MSM is capable of influencing the people’s vote.
And Pennsylvania is still 3 weeks away. Whatever will these idiots talk about now?
The big picture hasn’t changed: 3100 delegates to date, and there’s only a 100-150 delegate difference.
Obama will not get to 2025 by June 10, and neither will Clinton. The only question will be who got the closest, and that is going to be a subjective decision
But the MSM needs to sell papers, needs to sell ads, needs to get viewers. So we have to live thru this unending barrage of slimy, foetid news cycles where only the worst in each candidate guarantees coverage.
The only question will be who got the closest, and that is going to be a subjective decision
Would you care to elaborate on this? ‘Cuz there’s been an awful lot of creative mathematics going on lately.
Obama already is closest, and it doesn’t seem that is going to change.
Wellstone, what the hell? It’s going to be a subjective decision on who is the closest to 2025 delegates? Really? How is it subjective? Seems to me that Obama is ahead, is closer to 2025, and that he will STILL be after the rest of these primaries take place. No one, NO ONE, believes that Clinton can eliminate the gap between them with the remaining primaries. Absolutely no one with a brain and a penchant for simple mathematics, that is…
SUBJECTIVE = SUPERDELEGATE
It will be the SD’s subjective call as to who will go forward as the best Candidate.
All the other “simple mathematics” is Nomination Masturbation. ™ Wellstone
Once again, NEITHER candidate can get to 2025 WITHOUT the SD’s, and once again, the SD’s are purposely free and clear to select who gets their vote.
That is why the Obama campaign lobbied vigorously to shut down any hope of a re-do in Michigan, that is why Obama supporters keep bleating about “the rules” when they said FLorida could not and should not find a way to revote, that is why one Obama surrogate after another has gone national in concern-trolling Hillary and telling her to lie down “for the good of the Party”.
It has come back to bite them, and Obama has had to go public saying he thinks Hillary “has a right to run”. Like it was his to give.
It will be the SD’s subjective call as to who will go forward as the best Candidate.
May be, but that’s not what you said.
Even if they did a revote in FLA and MI, she wouldn’t get closer.
You throw a hell of a lot of projection around here, man. Where did the Obama campaign lobby “vigorously” to shut down a MI re-do?
Obama has had to go public saying he thinks Hillary “has a right to run”. Like it was his to give.
Wow. Someone asks for a comment and you see it as a decree or something.
I support Obama for President. Failing that, I support the Democratic nominee for President. Can you say the same thing?
Huh. Would ya look at that?