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AP is reporting Clinton will concede tonight.
Not so fast, says Camp Clinton:
The Clinton campaign issued an immediate denial.
“The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening,” the campaign’s statement reads in its entirety.
My bet: she suspends and holds onto those delegates.
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Think of it not so much as the end of Hillary’s 2008 campaign as the beginning of her 2012 run.
A very historic occasion to have the first black man running as the nominee of a major political party. It’s too bad he isn’t remotely qualified….or that his name isn’t Powell!
Agreed, Jim. She’ll listen to the devil on her shoulder (Mark Penn) whispering that anything can happen between now and August, and those supers are free to change their minds. She’ll suspend to stop bleeding cash and just wait to see how McCain an Co’s hits land on Obama. I just hope she’ll refrain from throwing any herself, and start tossing some at McCain. Personally, i’d love it if she took a page or two from Gore’s 1988 concession speech.
Jeremy Hinton,
Ah, but it is not just supers’ votes that are in play right up until the convention. If it was OK for a committed delegate to switch from his appointed (through election) committment to vote for Hillary and commit to Barack then turn about should be OK too.
Plenty of water is going to go under the bridge between now and the end of August. Plenty of time for buyer’s remorse to set in.
Hillary Clinton would best serve her party, and in my opinion the nation, by not officially folding her tent up until the last vote is cast at the convention.
Why should Hillary withdraw when she ran such a close second (and it can be disputed actually first in the popular vote)?
I can recall as a young adolescent watching political conventions with bated breath wondering who would emerge victorious. I do not think that a little suspense for now is such a bad thing. Besides, it will be less awkward for the Democratic Party to change its mind, if Barack should make an unforgiveable gaffe, if Hillary is still officially a candidate.
Good points, and i agree with much of what you’ve said. It will be interesting to see how she plays it from this point onwards though - will she work to unite the party together, emphasizing our common goals and the disparities of McCain’s positions to the Dems, or will she continue to function in primary mode, attack Obama and push to frame her and McCain as somehow the only equals and serve as a echo and reinforcer of the now growing direct attacks from McCain on Obama. She doesn’t need to “support” Obama - i personally would be shocked to see that at this point, as unfortunate IMHO as that is. In the interest of winning the general, i believe we would be best served were she to set her signts firmly on McCain, and do what Obama has basicaly been doing for the last month - flip to general mode, not primary mode.
Were something somehow to happen to Obama’s candidacy before the election, that approach would likely serve her the best in the general anyway. If she were to be seen as the potential source of the blow that brings down his candidacy in the home stretch, it certainly wouldn’t be much of an olive branch to his supporters, and coould very well cost her and the Democrats the general. I really doubt those who claim to be Dems and would vote for McCain over Clinton, but it certainly could drive people away from directly supporting her, support she would need against McCain.