Tom Edsaall, former Washington Post reporter, writes on the Huffington Post that Clinton may concede Nevada and South Carolina.
Reports are now conflicting, with the AP and other published reports talking about Clinton treating Nevada like a firewall.
“Manchester, N.H. — A panicked and cash-short Clinton campaign is seriously considering giving up on the Nevada caucuses and on the South Carolina primary in order to regroup and to save resources for the massive 19-state mega-primary on February 5.
“At the same time, some top independent expenditure groups supporting Clinton have been exploring the creation of an anti-Obama “527 committee” that would take unlimited contributions from a few of Clinton’s super-rich backers and from a handful of unions to finance television ads and direct mail designed to tarnish the Illinois Senator’s image.”
The campaign is obviously in total chaos if contradictory and damaging leaks like this are happening.
The rule in politics generally is, if you want to destroy someone, go ahead, but don’t talk about it.
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1 pjonathan // Jan 8, 2008 at 1:17 pm
With Bill Clinton’s comments today in NH,
running to redeem a father and now, a husband, is a story worth writing.
Much has been written about George W running to redeem his father’s “failure” to “go to Bagdad”.
Some has been written this time around about Senator Dodd running to redeem his father’s failure-ethical lapses- and Governor Romney running to redeem his father’s failure-his brainwashing comments.
The press has been nibbling around the edges of Hillary running to redeem Bill and herself. That story, however, is the most intriguing of the bunch.
In addition, an article written about all of these “redemption” runs would probably convince us that voters should never vote for a presidential candidate who is related to a president or presidential candidate. I think with just my information it is fair to say that redemption runs lead to poor judgment in the political decisions of a campaign and in presidential decisions, clouding both. An experienced political writer or writers would be able to fully research and present clearly the results of that research.
I think that Hillary Clinton would still be leading if Bill Clinton had been kept in the background. What I am seeing and what I believe the press is starting to report is that Hillary’s race is all about Bill redeeming Bill and Bill’s legacy and Hillary redeeming Bill, Bill’s legacy, and Hillary’s legacy. Obama and Edwards have been clearly stating for a long time that their presidential race is about America or about the middle class or about the other America, not about them. Hillary in NH is just starting to say that her race is not about her. But she just said that the race for her is very personal, suggesting policy but in reality much more telling.
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