Maddow's take on it is that those who think that Hillary Clinton has any intention of bowing out from this contest gracefully, should think again, because Hillary has made no signs that she intends to stop campaigning.
From Maddow's column in the Huffington Post:
Listen: you don't need a vivid political imagination to recognize that if what you really want is to be President of the United States -- a slim chance of becoming President (a fight at the convention) is better than no chance of becoming President (because you dropped out).
The Clinton strategy, as best as I can tell, is to stay in the race. You can't win if you don't play -- conceding the nomination is sure defeat, not conceding means there's still a chance.
The way for her to avoid conceding is for her to avoid conceding that the race is resolved.
As long as the Florida and Michigan dispute is alive, and it is being used as the basis of Clinton's claim that the nomination is unresolved, we should expect that Senator Clinton will stay in the race.
We should also expect that if the Democratic Party's committee system takes up the Florida and Michigan dispute through its rules as they stand now, Clinton's campaign will be able to keep the Michigan and Florida dispute alive until the convention. If there's a secret Democratic-insider plan to keep that from happening, it's time for that plan to become un-secret.
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3 comments:
The nerve of the Clinton campaign... they want Obama to have ZERO VOTES from Florida and Michigan.
I guess they don't care about disenfranchising Obama supporters in those states.
Superdelegates... please STOP THE MADNESS!!!
Clinton wants to win by a popular vote metric that
1. doesn't give Obama any votes in either Fl. or MI
2. doesn't count the votes from the caucus states, where Obama had a stronghold
3. counts in the votes from the upcoming puerto rico primary, even though they don't vote in the general.
fuzzy math, indeed.
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