RK ARCHIVE - Penn already cutting his losses...

The truth is, we have lots in common. Not the far right and the far left, but everyone else in between. As a life long Democrat, I have always been bothered by those who feel entitled to my vote because of my affiliation.

I believe that vote must be earned, and I feel that the Clinton campaign has not earned it. As a matter of fact, I sense that they are using tactics right out of the W playbook. Divide and conquer. National security, patriotism, the "aren't you afraid that you will be worse off..." argument are all "fear" tactics.

In my opinion, that is not a winning formula. Apparently neither does Mark Penn. In an article in the LA Times today, he seems to be foreshadowning the end of the line. Oh, and by the way, it's not his fault...

Comments

Hillary has no message nor oganization (Hugo Estrada - 3/3/2008 1:16:07 PM)

Thanks for the link. Towards the end, the story about lack of organization and a bad message. the story shows how the campaign members are trying to pet Clinton's defeats on either poor organization o poor message.

It is both.

The article documented the poor organization, so I won't discuss it.

Hillary has a terrible message, which is no message at all. Saying that she has "experience" is another of saying that you should vote for her because she is her.

Since she lacks a positive campaign to compete on which candidate can inspire the most the Democratic voters, she must use negative attacks.

And this is sad because she has been very inspiring in the past. She would have done a lot better had she gone back to "It takes a village" meme with a twist: "It takes a village to rebuild America" or something like that. Much better than Rovian attacks.

yeah, but she may well win both OH and TX (teacherken - 3/3/2008 2:52:28 PM)

and live to fight another day - the polls over the weekend seem to show some movement towards her in both states

OH is far more likely, because early voting there probably favored her. It started before the Potomac primaries. But the early voting in TX apparently heavily favors Obama. And if he can match the increase in the A-A turnout against that in the Hispanic turnout, since he does better among Hispanics than she does among AAs, he has a shot at winning the popular vote in TX.

we will know in around 30 hours or so, won't we?

First state to report tomorrow will be VT, so at least the evening will start with good news for Obama

Cautiously Optomistic (FishHead Dem - 3/3/2008 3:47:46 PM)

I am hoping the trend of Obama outperforming the polss continues that was so well discussed at Kos yesterday.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

I certainly remember NH and am cautious by nature, but I still think that it might go very well.

I believe that I am going to be at the Obama HQ in Chicago tomorrow for some business. Can't think of a better way to spend the day.

The key word here is may (Hugo Estrada - 3/3/2008 4:23:32 PM)

A month ago, Ohio and Texas were Hillary's firewall. Today they are both close races, which can go any way.

And Hillary needs at least 60% of popular vote to catch up with the delegate count. It already looks like this is not happening.

And this comes from the candidate that had double digit advantages just three months ago.

This is a sign of a terrible campaign.

As for Obama, I say that tonight is another phonebanking night at my home :)

"Internal Conflicts" (hereinva - 3/3/2008 4:29:11 PM)

How many campaign workers (volunteers or paid) understand the consequences of "internal conflicts" within a campaign; its an anathema. Not certain why it took 11 straight losses for reality to set in..hubris ?

If Clinton gets her mojo back on Tuesday it may be signs of steadier ground for her campaign- though it will be a tough climb back up.