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LAREDO, Texas – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has raised the possibility of a challenge to Texas’ primary and caucus rules just days before the contest, drawing a warning against legal action from the state’s Democratic Party.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the Clinton campaign was trying to minimize the results of the caucuses. The former first lady and her team have made clear their unhappiness with caucuses, believing that they cater to the hard-core party activists who tend to support Obama. The Illinois senator has won 13 caucuses so far, while Clinton has won just two.
“This takes it to a new level, which is they don’t want the people who are participating in those caucuses to have their results reported in a timely fashion. And I assume that’s a very self-serving decision,” Plouffe said.
Texas party officials said they believed Cecil was threatening legal action and wrote a letter to him and to Obama senior strategist Steve Hildebrand reflecting that concern.
“If it is true that litigation is imminent between one or both of your campaigns and the Texas Democratic Party (TDP), such action could prove to be a tragedy for a reinvigorated democratic process that is involving a record number of participants here in Texas and across the nation,” party attorney Chad Dunn wrote. “Litigation regarding the TDP could cripple the momentum of a resurging Texas Democratic Party and ultimately the November 2008 election.”
● RealClearPolitics.com – Obama leads in National Poll by 7.5 pts
● Gallup Daily – Democrats Primary Election 2008
Unbelievable. These rules have been in place for a long time. Where have these people been?
It is so annoying to watch these Clintonistas. They are rude. They are unpleasant. They question Obama’s voters. They deny his appeal.
Now this. It is not enough to work within the rules, and when possible, change them when they do not work. Here, we are changing the rules literally in the middle of the vote. Texas has begun voting.
This challenge should be abandoned by Hillary and her band of incompetent morons.
This will go the way of the challenge in Nevada when in courts there they attempted to have the judge buy into the argument that they had “just discovered the rules.”
The Clinton camp is quoted as just having discovered the Texas rules only this month!
See Texas’s Unique Primaucus Advantage Obama.
OTOH, only days ago Hillary said Texas has been on her mind for a year, she reminds the Texas audience of her long relationship with the state, going back to 1972.
Really, the Clinton camp needs to select another pig. This one has no wings and won’t fly. There’s no case to answer.
Here’s an explanation.
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Clinton=Bush ◊ by BooMan
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
Thanks.
The idea of a lawsuit has been long in planning.
you may recall about a week or more, Bill Clinton told one Texas audience that Hillary Clinton may win Texas during the day but the caucus opens at 7 and close at 7.15 and “they could steal it at night.” (He was incorrect on the open close times. But betcha the idea was twirling then. (I can’t locate the link was made available in one of my comments within).
What Bill left out was the fact only the voters who voted are allowed to participate in the caucus.
Make the Clintons go away without an invite to the convention…. crawl back under a rock.
Since last summer, I expected her campaign to implode. But she is dangerous. Barack will be president.
So apparently in addition to being a really bad leader of a campaign, Hillary Clinton is an ignoramus.
two interesting notes on Texas (H/T: The Daily Dish)
something is happening here:
Yes, and what’s interesting is that the main purpose is to “delay and disrupt” reporting the results, i.e., the ‘truth.’
I guess they didn’t have a glimmer of a hope at challenging the results, so the next best strategy is to suppress the truth. The spin thing has gone into Orwellian warp drive.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Mar. 1, 2008 – A year ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-Inevitable, was joshing about whether she could appoint her husband secretary of state when she became president, and Barack Obama was urging a throng to be realistic about his own chances. “Let’s face it,” he said. “The novelty’s going to wear off.”
When Clinton joined the race in January 2007 with a cozy Webcast from her living room couch, the notion of a former first lady-turned-senator running to be the first female president was so new, so different, she quickly eclipsed rival candidates such as Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, all seasoned politicians with solid credentials.
“I’m in to win,” Clinton proclaimed. And she had the money to back up her bravado.
“I don’t think anyone can stop her,” John Catsimatidis, a New York businessman and member of Clinton’s finance team, trumpeted in February 2007. “She’s unstoppable; she’s got such a machine.”
Clinton, intent on keeping 2000 nominee Al Gore out of the race, seemed to regard all other rivals as “Lilliputians,” says Democratic pollster Peter Hart. Her Democratic opponents didn’t buy it, though, and neither did the public.
“I lived through the inevitability of Howard Dean,” scoffed John Edwards, recalling the early darling of the 2004 presidential race who quickly faded from the Democratic field. But it was Obama, not Edwards, who emerged as the anti-Clinton.
Bidding to become the nation’s first black president, Obama offered a fresh new face, and a message of hope and change that captured the public’s imagination.
His first visit to New Hampshire, back in December 2006, before he’d entered the race, sparked such a frenzy of interest that even Obama dismissed it as hype, as his 15 minutes of fame.
“I think to some degree I’ve become a shorthand or a symbol or a stand-in for now,” he said. “It’s a spirit that says we are looking for different. We want something new.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
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WACO, Texas – Recasting what would keep her campaign alive, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s advisers said that if rival Barack Obama loses any of Tuesday’s four presidential primaries, it would show Democrats are having second thoughts about him.
In an e-mail and conference call to reporters, Clinton’s campaign sought to raise the stakes for the Illinois senator in next week’s primaries and also laid the groundwork to keep her campaign alive if the results are disappointing.
≈ Cross-posted from BooMan’s diary — Letter to the March 4th Primary Voters ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
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WASHINGTON, (NY Times) July 29, 1904 — While the general spirit and purpose of the Constitution is applicable to the zone, that domain is not a part of the United States within the full meaning of the Constitution and laws of the country.
The Canal Commission cannot be regarded as a branch or bureau of any of the executive departments. The will and sound discretion of the President and his commission will control, subject only to the general spirit and purpose of the Constitution.
Full article (pdf)
≈ Cross-posted from my diary — McCain’s Canal Zone Problem Interlinked with Guantanamo Bay ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
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It’s time to throw out that old map with the red states and blue states. The map that implies that all but a handful of states will definitely vote Republican or Democratic and that the real contest will be decided in Florida or Ohio or whatever.
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In these years, different groups of voters moved in different directions. Suburbanites in our largest metropolitan areas, repelled by the cultural stands of religious conservatives, trended heavily toward Democrats. Voters in rural areas in the South, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, repelled by the cultural liberalism and environmental policies of the Clinton administration, trended heavily toward the Republicans.
In or around 1995, these alignments froze into place and pretty much stayed there for 10 years. Helping to freeze them were particular personal characteristics of the two dominant political figures of these times, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
But now Bush is not on the ballot and Hillary Clinton’s flagging campaign has been sending her husband to places like Chillicothe, Ohio. John McCain does not have the Texas swagger and up-front religious commitment that turned many voters away from Bush and his party. Barack Obama does not seem to have the wobbly moral compass that turned many voters away from Clinton and his party.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."