The IndePundit

In order to be reelected for a second term Hillary would need to transform the White House to appeal to her base. Citing an article by the Associated Press Hillary Clinton told a reporter:

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.” The article “found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. There’s a pattern emerging here.”

Oh yeah, there’s a pattern emerging here!!!

After that call she pulled her new ride into a 7/11

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So the fat man from Meet the Press finally sang. What any thinking individual has known since February is now the Beltway’s conventional wisdom. It’s the end of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton era. Keep reading →

Undecided superdelegates, as long as you’re taking so long to make up your minds, think about the nonsense that is being spun about electability. There’s this panic that working whites won’t vote for Obama. Few are actually saying it, but the implication is that it’s about race. Keep reading →

Full disclosure - Ideologically I’m progressive and given the winner-take-all nature of the American political system, I generally support democratic candidates; however, I’m an independent and I’ve never registered as a democrat. I don’t know what bothers me most about the leadership of the democratic party: their political ineptitude or their wimpiness.

Democrats have trouble playing a winning hand, while republicans have mastered the art of playing a losing hand - and we witnessed how thoroughly they took over when they had all three branches of government. After these past 7 years, it is a testimony to their cunning and the wimpiness of the democrats that McCain is competitive in the polls.

Unless I’m badly mistaken the play book for this year’s election is an open secret:

1. Right wing 527 Issue Advocacy groups will smear Obama in a way that will make Kerry’s swift-boating look mild.

2. McCain will belatedly condemn the attacks, but insist they are a private matter, beyond his control, and not associated with his campaign. This will reinforce the image he has cultivated as a man of integrity and allow the MSM to continuously debate the validity of the attacks, shifting the focus of the election away from republican mismanagement, corruption and incompetence.

3. Just like Kerry, the Obama campaign will not fight back effectively. The MSM will box Obama’s campaign into a “new political” paradigm that will equate any retaliation as negating his raison d’etre. Keep reading →

Unfortunately, many of Hillary Clinton’s female supporters over the age of 50 have the impression that Hillary is being kept down because she is a woman. They might recall how the MSM treated Al Gore during the 2000 election cycle, or John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards and Wesley Clark during the 2004 race.

It’s reached the point where many female supporters of Hillary claim they will support John McCain if she loses to Barack.

In all likelihood most would end up voting for Obama in the general election, but if there is a few percentage point shift, that could cost the democrats the election. For that reason Obama could greatly benefit from a woman on the ticket with him. This would be a powerful outreach to Hillary ’s supporters. Keep reading →

Now it’s official, Hillary has zero chance. All she can do now is poison the wells as she continues her scorched earth campaign.

Check out Slate’s Delegate Counter, they write:

Coming into today, the odds that Clinton would catch Obama in pledged delegates were very small. Now they’re zero. Before Pennsylvania, Clinton needed to win each remaining primary with 65 percent of the vote to close the gap. Even though she won Pennsylvania, that figure is now just over 68 percent. (Try it on the calculator below by dragging the red bar at the top to the right.) Furthermore, the state with the most remaining delegates is North Carolina, where Obama leads in the polls by about 20 points. Assuming he nets at least 20 more of the state’s 115 delegates, Clinton needs 80 percent of the vote in each of the other eight remaining primaries to catch up.

Have you seen the latest Washington Post polls? People aren’t buying the whiskey drinkin’, gun totin’, good ole gal image. Clearly, if she were that person she would have gotten drunk and unloaded her gun at Paula Jones’ trailer park, or gone gunnin’ for Linda Tripp during the Lewinsky scandal.

Give us a break: has there even been a more poll driven politician? The pollsters advised that she was too strident, so we got this:

She needed to solidify her support in the black community, so we got this:

She needed to be soft and vulnerable and we got this:

Thank goodness this silliness isn’t working. A majority of Americans (54%) have an unfavorable opinion of Hillary Clinton, vs McCain (40%) and Obama (39%).

Gennifer Flowers now has an advice column, and instead of pollsters Hillary should perhaps listen to Gennifer:

It doesn’t matter if it involves changing a career or making major changes in your personal life…you can do it! I realize and so should you that life is short. No matter your age or circumstance, it’s never too late to make positive modifications. If you need to dump that chump or quit that dead end job, don’t dilly dally. Make your plan Stan and get on with it!

I hope this is his last trip to Europe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!