Sunday, June 01, 2008

Puerto Rican Democrats Love Clinton

Well, that’s what you call winning handily. 

Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Puerto Rico on Sunday and insisted that she is leading Sen. Barack Obama in the popular vote.

Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sunday claimed a big win in Puerto Rico.

With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was ahead of Barack Obama by more than a 2-1 ratio.

Her win gives her the larger share of Puerto Rico’s 55 delegates.

 

(12) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1915 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. Hitting a home run doesn’t mean you win the baseball game.  Someone needs to stick a fork in here—and I expect someone will before the week is out.

    Posted by scott on June 01, 2008 at 2134 hrs


  2. If you are going to try and figure out who should make the Olympic team, do you take the runner who is winning all the time trials back in January?  Or the runner now putting up the best times a few months from the actual event?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 0857 hrs


  3. One problem with that analogy is that with running, each event is equivalent to the others.  With primary elections, each one is different, has different voters, different issues, etc.  Therefore a runner who’s on a hot streak near to the olympics might have a good case for making the team over another runner with more past victories.  Meanwhile, a primary candidate who has lost can’t really make the case that she’s on a hot streak because she won an obscure state with voters unrepresentative of the nation as a whole.  To say nothing of the fact that the rules of the primary election do not operate on the “who’s hot” principle; the operate on the “who has more delegates” principle.  Them’s the rules.

    Posted by scott on June 02, 2008 at 0905 hrs


  4. Liberals love Obama because he is the epitome of symbolism over substance.  Dang…did I just give props to Hillary?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 0945 hrs


  5. I don’t know, but you did just make my head explode with a ten megaton blast of irony, Mr. Bush-backer!  smile

    I like him because he’s not an establishment player.  I like him because he’s got a pretty unwavering message of national unity.  I like him because he’s run a pretty clean campaign.  I like his policies about as much as Clinton’s—that is to say, they’re just fine.  I like him because he’s not a lightning rod for partisan rancor the way Clinton is.  Rather, he has genuine appeal in the middle.  I like him because he’s smart and well-spoken.  (Wouldn’t that be a nice change!)  I like him because he’s exercised good judgement with regard to his positions on Iraq and other major issues.

    Symbolism?  Don’t talk to me about symbolism, Mr. Flag Pin.

    Posted by scott on June 02, 2008 at 0953 hrs


  6. ” I like him because he’s got a pretty unwavering message of national unity. “

    So, Scott, you voted for the last president who started off with that same message? How’d it work out?

    Posted by tee bee on June 02, 2008 at 1047 hrs


  7. No, I didn’t.  He didn’t have enough other things going for him—like the fact all his policy proposals were against my values, for starters.

    Posted by scott on June 02, 2008 at 1053 hrs


  8. Billary isn’t going down without a fight - this is going to be messy and fun to watch. Obama is an idiot if he offers her the VP spot.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 1107 hrs


  9. Her claim to lead in the popular vote is staring to get a little old, too, not to mention ironic. She keeps talking about “disenfranchising the voters of Florida and Michigan,” but she only gets the “lead” in popular votes by not counting the vote in some of the caucus states.

    I suspect we’ll see this all get settled in the next day or so when the superdelegates flood to Obama after the primaries tomorrow.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 1117 hrs


  10. Well, I read your diatribe - twice, in fact - and everything you mention is pure, unadulterated symbolism.  He’s well-spoken??  For a moment there, I thought you were going to follow that up with “for a black guy”. 

    “An unwavering message of national unity?” Which is what, exactly?  I’ve yet to hear it.  All I hear is his juxtapositions of some very flowery phrases, such as “This campaign is not about clinging to the past, but rather looking to the future.”

    Oh…Bravo.  How long did it take his speechwriters to come up with that little gem?  And of course, the spineless, ribbon wearing, head fulls of mush eat it up.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 1129 hrs


  11. Scott

    Do you also like Obama because he is a taxer and spender? His warped views of entitlements make the country even more bankrupt

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 1214 hrs


  12. Spineless? Ribbonwearing? You mean all the chickenhawk neocons are going to vote for Obama?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 02, 2008 at 1229 hrs


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