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Home Front: Politix
Hill and TedÂ’s Excellent Adventures
2008-05-13
James S. Robbins, National Review

As the obituaries for the Clinton campaign rolled in last week, the candidate herself refused to be buried.
"I'm not dead."
"I'm getting better."
"I don't want to go on the cart."

She said that she would stay in the race “until there is a nominee.” Most seemed to think that this meant that she would concede defeat if the Obama campaign could assemble enough pledged delegates and super-delegates to pass the magic number of 2025 — or 2209 according to the Clinton campaign. But whatever the number, there will be no official nominee until the votes are cast at the party convention. What I heard in that statement was that Hillary was taking her fight to Denver.

Is this realistic? Most analysts are writing her off. But ask yourself: Does Hillary Clinton have as much gumption as Ted Kennedy did in 1980? Back then he went all the way to the convention, using many of the same arguments against Jimmy Carter that the Clinton campaign is currently employing, though he had a much weaker hand. . . .

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Posted by:Mike

#1  By all means the Clintons should take a page out of Ted Kennedy's playbook for a successful presidential campaign.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-05-13 09:49  

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