cnn.com; politico.com
Tim Russert reports Hillary Clinton has cancelled all morning show appearances. MSNBC reports Clinton has cancelled all events scheduled for tomorrow. The folks on Ben Smith's blog at Politico are cheering for a Clinton concession and pull out of the race. Allegedly, 7% of her votes in Indiana were from folks planning on voting for McCain in November.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Russert_Clinton_cancels_morning_show_appearances.html#comments
according to CNN, Obama picked up 4 more delegates than Clinton tonight.
Terry McAuliffe refuses to answer any questions about another loan by HRC to her campaign. Bill Clinton's face is said to be redder than a tomato.
A shame I don't have cable; sounds like I'm missing a lot of fun.
(And is Monroe Co., Indiana where IU is? It went 66% Obama-33% Clinton. Lake County was a disappointing 55% Obama-45% Clinton.)
Obama may have only won 9 counties in Indiana, but I'm almost tempted to say they were the right ones. Same he couldn't have gotten one or two more big ones, or several of the smaller ones.
Clinton got barely got more than 12,000 votes over Obama in Indiana; he got almost 230,000 more than her in NC.
Monroe county contains Bloomington (with IU in it), yes.
As someone else put it last night, the fat lady is warming up in the wings. I didn't stay up too late, so went to bed when the vote count difference was around 16K, and people were linking to various columnists and media outlets which were NOT calling the race in Indiana, and even perfectly willing to concede it to Clinton, but still saying essentially "that's it, Obama will be the nominee." Meaning, with the delegate count and vote disparity the way it is, Indiana ceased to matter quite a bit before it was actually called.
Then Clinton cancelled all her appearances for today (although to be fair, she did that when the race was still uncalled and some people were actually predicting Obama might squeak by and take it).
Due to the squeaker race, it seems most of the headlines are of the "Clinton takes Indiana!" variety, so who knows.
one who hopes to come out of the closet in the future:
You need to make smaller titles for your postings. Long titles don't wrap very well when looking at the list of threads in the tracker. :)
According to the AP (gleaned from campaign finance reports), Clinton has loaned her campaign $6.4 million in the last month -- $5M in early April, another $1M later in the month, and about $400K in the week before the Indiana and NC primaries.
As we were watching Clinton's victory speech in Indiana, my wife observed that Chelsea Clinton looked very disappointed and about to cry on several occasions. Later, political analyst David Gergin on CNN noted the same thing as he commented on the "valedictory" vs "victory" tone of her speech.
"As we were watching Clinton's victory speech in Indiana, my wife observed that Chelsea Clinton looked very disappointed and about to cry on several occasions. Later, political analyst David Gergin on CNN noted the same thing as he commented on the "valedictory" vs "victory" tone of her speech."
Laura and I noticed that, too. Several talking heads mentioned Bill's expression, but I thought the real tell was Chelsea. At first I suspected that she does not yet have the experience or skill at hiding what she's really feeling, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized just how excruciatingly hard it must really be to watch your mother go through that.
Hillary's speech was seriously conflicted, both in terms of structure and tonality. Russert described it as two different speeches, while Buchanan used the phrase "Hail and Farewell." I've never seen a victory speech before that had so much resonance with a concession.
I still haven't seen a picture of this speech by her that includes Bill's allegedly beet-red face. Does anyone know where one is out there in cyberspace? YouTube perhaps? (can someone post a link here??)