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What Clinton Should Do | 237 comments (237 topical)
I agree 100% (5.00 / 1) (#44)
by sar75 on Wed May 07, 2008 at 01:15:32 AM EST
She should keep running, bringing people out to vote, building infrastructure for the GE, but cut a deal with Obama: no more nastiness. Her final days on the trail might look like Huckabee's, in fact. As long as it's clear she's no longer truly contesting the nomination (that she can't win - let's face it - barring a major gaffe), there is no harm, but potentially much good that could come from her continuing on for three more weeks. I've seen first hand the mobilizing impact this campaign has had in North Carolina - no reason we shouldn't shore up Oregon and work to turn WV blue again (although that will be tough).

I'm not sure Obama should put her on the ticket, but I think they could cut a deal whereby she becomes the Senate majority leader and gets to shepherd a health care bill with her name on it (it could even be her plan) through Congress.

I think she's got class and is a good Democrat and will do her best to unify the party. And should Obama lose (which I just don't think is going to happen given the current economic and political climate), she will be almost guaranteed the nomination in 2012.

Stop the insanity! (5.00 / 2) (#220)
by angie on Wed May 07, 2008 at 01:51:39 AM EST
NC is not a swing state! For crying out loud, Jesse Helms was the Senator in NC until 2002 and if he hadn't gotten cancer he would still be in there -- Elizabeth Dole has his seat now. No way on god's green earth is NC is going blue in the fall. Good grief.
And while I'm at it -- everyone needs to stop buying into the new media narrative -- Hillary did not have to win NC; Obama had to win IN -- that was the tie breaker. He didn't do it. He still, outspending her 3-1 and with whatever funky stuff was going on in Lake County, could not close the deal. Simply put: this changes NOTHING. They are still in a DEAD HEAT. It is no more possible today for Obama to get to the 2209 delegates he needs to win the nomination then it was yesterday. If anything, this new media narrative is obscuring the fact that the demographics of today's results pretty much put the nail in the coffin for any chances of an Obama win in the GE.  We all need to take a step back, get a good night's sleep, and remember that. Tomorrow is another day.

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What Clinton Should Do | 237 comments (237 topical)

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