How Do You Quit?

This has to be the question that Sen. Clinton is asking herself tonight. She is way behind in the delegate count. She has been badly beaten in North Carolina. What should have been a runaway win in Indiana is now declared "too close to call" at 11:10 EDT. There are only three small primaries remaining in Kentucky, South Dakota, and Oregon. Barring a miracle, she can't win the nomination in August.

So how do you look at your campaign staff, your die hard supporters, your family, women everywhere, and say, "We fought hard, but now its time to quit,"? I don't know, but Sen. Clinton must be thinking about it because it might be the only choice she had left.

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"too close to call"

At about 11:05 or so EDT time CNN declared the Indiana Democratic Primary too close to call. I would like to make a call, too. That call is shenanigans! Yes, I'll say it again shenanigans!

CNN is a 24 hour news network. They will continue to carry coverage of the primary throughout the night and into the morning. They don't go off the air, ever. Why on earth would they call an election too close? So the newspapers can make their print deadlines thats why.

Tomorrow your daily will likely carry a headline of Sen. Obama winning North Carolina, and Sen. Clinton leading in Indiana but saying it was too close to call. In reality the votes in Indiana will have been tallied and the winner will be declared, but CNN will have covered the collective asses of all dailies on the east coast by running a story that the elections is "too close to call."

If the papers can't keep up with a 24 hour news cycle then they will have to fail and fold. Rather then having CNN c.y.a. figure out how to get the front page deadline extended on a more regular basis and cheaper. Maybe even run a damn extra if need be.


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a miracle

The miracle that could put Sen. Clinton ahead at the convention would be DNC head Howard Dean declaring a re-running of Florida's and Michigan's primaries. This won't happen for two reasons. One these states will be barred from the convention because they tried to push their primaries ahead and become more important. By allowing them to re-run now it makes them the most important primaries, ever. This would completely negate their punishments.

Second, I think Howard Dean hates the Clintons. I can't prove it, but I recall there being some bad blood there after '04 and his appointment the the DNC Chairman seat. No way is he going to do anything that helps a Clinton get the nomination.