CANTON, Mississippi — Fresh from her victories in three out of four states last week and surging back in the national polls, Hillary Clinton has crafted a new strategy for winning the Democratic nomination which she believes will legitimise her claim to be president. Clinton thinks she can win a majority of the popular vote in primaries and caucuses, even if she cannot overtake Barack Obama, her rival, in the number of ‘pledged’ delegates who will vote to choose the candidate at the Democratic national convention in August. The New York senator has unnerved Obama, who has been left reeling by a series of errors from senior policy advisers. The two opponents face an ugly six-week battle in the run-up to a potentially pivotal primary in Pennsylvania next month. Democrats boosted Obama in Wyoming last night in state caucuses that gave the Illinois senator a comfortable victory. With almost all votes tallied he beat Clinton by 59% to 40%. Not how many delegates, but how good Democratic ‘superdelegates’ could hand Hillary Clinton the nomination even if she is still trailing in August, says Tim Hames * Hillary Clinton hints at a […]
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Hillary Clinton Sets Her Sights on Three Ways to Win
Author: SARAH BAXTER
Source: The Times (U.K.)
Publication Date: 9-Mar-08
Link: Hillary Clinton Sets Her Sights on Three Ways to Win
Source: The Times (U.K.)
Publication Date: 9-Mar-08
Link: Hillary Clinton Sets Her Sights on Three Ways to Win
Stephan: I think this is a pretty good analysis. If I were advising Obama, I would tell him to go into the roar. To Aikido the attacks by linking Clinton and McCain saying explicitly: If you want four more years of what we have now, you should vote for Senators Clinton or McCain. If you're happy with the way things are going, you should vote for them. But, if you want to change the direction our country is headed to one that is fairer and more life-affirming, to restore America's standing in the eyes of the world, you should vote for me, because that is where my leadership will take us.
If Obama can not lose focus, and fall into the same old patterns, trusting instead in the strategy of beingness that has served him so well up to this point he will prevail. If not, he may not. But he will lose. If he cannot win over Clinton, who is a milder form of McCain, he cannot win over the person himself. We will know, I think, by the rimary in Pennsylvania.
