Too bad they didn't have a plan for the post Feb 4th primaries.

If she's such a good fighter, why hasn't she started competing successfully yet?

Did she want to get behind, forcing herself to loan the campaign $15 million b/c she thought it would help her in the general?

Obviously?

Given the Clinton campaign's planning thus far, I'd be reticent to say they've "obviously" got a plan for anything.

It's just this sort of attitude that has turned so many SD's against Hillary.  It's not about street fighting - it's about a process, and respect for principles.  

Looks like Obama's winning that game, too.

TEN of Clinton's superdelegates have crossed over to the Obama Campaign.

ZERO of Obama's superdelegates have crossed over to the Clinton Campaign.

What's going to happen to make Obama's superdelegates switch over to Clinton?

I bet they'll find out that Obama went to this church where this black minister had the nerve to criticize our own government in fiery tones at times - that will surely cause all of the superdelegates to come to their senses and flood to Clinton.

Oh wait, they already tried that.  And it didn't work.

So again - what's going to happen in the next 3 months to convince Obama's committed superdelegates that they should turn their backs on him?

Plan?
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Plan?

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since it's assumed that obama is the nominee, there will be 3 months of fight between the gop and obama, in which obama might be very bloodied to an extent that alot of sd want be able to support obama, being afraid that they will be tied to obama, and that might hurt them in their marginal districts, plus there might be sd feeling according to the polls in august that to nominate obama is suicide  so thet might change their mind

That is EXACTLY what he is saying. There are no such things as pledged "unpledged" delegates. Those "unpledged delegates" that have declared their support for either candidate have the option of switching their vote AT THE CONVENTION. The fact that it is in August and not June or July means that there will not be an official Democratic candidate for President of the United States until then. Like the diarist says -- there's 11 weeks between 6/3 and 8/25 and the "super" delegates have an obligation to their party and this nation to keep their options open.

You seem to know nothing about nominating process. You need a lesson in Nomination 101.

The running mate only announced during convention where he gets the nomination if he has enough votes. If he wins the GE he picks the cabinet. So wtf are you talking about?

Hey there is a diary about you on DK.

Links please!

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JohnnyB

http://mediamatters.org/columns/20080430 0001?f=h_column

So now the press tells candidates when to quit?
Looking back at history, it's hard to find evidence of the same media response to Ronald Reagan's failed 1976 presidential campaign. Taking on President Gerald Ford, Reagan lost more primaries than he won, and Ford won a plurality of the popular vote, but neither man had enough delegates to secure the nomination. So the campaign went to the GOP convention, where Ford prevailed. The bitter battle did nothing to damage Reagan's reputation (in fact, it did quite the opposite), in part because the media did not collectively suggest the candidate was acting selfishly or irrationally. Instead, Reagan walked away with a reputation as a resilient fighter who stood up for his conservative values.
And what about Sen. Ted Kennedy's doomed run in 1980? He trailed President Jimmy Carter by more than 750 delegates at the end of the primary season and insisted on fighting all the way to the convention, where he tried to get committed Carter delegates to switch their allegiance. The press did not spend months during the primary season ridiculing Kennedy, in a deeply personal tone, for remaining in the race.
And what about Gary Hart in 1984? He and Walter Mondale split the season's primaries and caucuses evenly, and neither had the 2,023 delegates needed to secure the nomination. Superdelegates eventually determined the winner. (Sound familiar?) Mondale had many of them locked up even before the campaign season began, so after the final primary between Mondale and Hart was complete, it was obvious that Mondale was going to be the nominee because Hart could not persuade enough superdelegates to change their mind and support him.
When Hart took his crusade all the way to the convention, the media did not form a posse and decide it was their job to get Hart to quit for the good of the party. (And the press certainly didn't form a posse in March to start pushing Hart out of the race.) Nor did the press collectively suggest that Hart had an oversized ego that had turned him into a political monster.
That new media standard has been created exclusively for Hillary Clinton.
And where were the catcalls in 1988 for Jesse Jackson to ditch his quixotic run before all the primary votes had been tallied? He finished with 1,200 delegates, nearly 1,400 behind Michael Dukakis, yet soldiered on all the way to the convention without having a prayer of winning the nomination. There were few if any media drum sections trying to pound him out of the race.
Or Jerry Brown in 1992? He continued his campaign against Bill Clinton through June despite the fact he tallied fewer than 600 delegates. (By contrast, Hillary Clinton has won approximately 1,600 delegates so far.) Brown's attacks at the time were far more personal and bruising than anything we've seen this cycle. As The New York Times reported on June 2, 1992, Brown "put his party on notice that he intends to carry his politics-is-corrupt, Clinton-is-unelectable message to the Democratic National Convention in New York in July, and beyond." Brown also told the Times that voting for Clinton was like buying a ticket on the Titanic.
At the time, Clinton was actually polling in third place nationally, behind President George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot, so why wasn't the press in a frenzy demanding that Brown drop out of the race because he was hurting his party's chances in November?
If you look at Reagan and Kennedy and Hart and Jackson and Brown, those men all ran competitive races. But toward the end of the primary season it was clear most of them had no mathematical chance of winning the nomination. (Reagan was the exception.) Yet none of them was told collectively by the press to go home. Nor were they routinely depicted in the media as being self-absorbed.
Today, Clinton does have a chance to win. Yet she has been told by the press to go home and to get over herself.
It's unprecedented.

Why you're absolutely correct!

It's not over after all! Nothing is decided!

The actual race will be Dennis Kucinich vs. Ron Paul!

I knew it all along.

The only way it does NOT go to the conventon is if it is a backroom deal NOW. That's what all this talk about the SDs or elders 'stepping in' to 'settle' it in June amounts to -- them getting together in a back room and than announcing their 'decision'.

Luckily, Hillary can't be bluffed by that sort of thing.

McCain is beatable in one week.
Read the latest polls.
No one is focusing on him now.

Remember, right now about 45 44 is dividing the candidates support among democrats that voted.
Both sides are dug in.  It has to play all the way out for us to come together and beat McCain.

obama has 50 million dollars, so his best way to convince that he is electable is by starting to run against mccain which he is doing anyway, so in 3 months  we might get clever

Why does Obama have to wait to start his campaign advertising v. McCain? He's got plenty of money, and MSM and O supporters have declared hin presumptive nominee. Why does Hillary have to get out for him to begin advertising against McCain?  

HRC should go all the way to convention. Dems always have and that's what makes the Dem Convention exciting.  Also, she and all her voters will have more bargaining power at convention (for universal health care, e.g.).  There's no way she should give up.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Maybe you should take a break. Your post isn't even coherent.

HRC has no way of losing in NY as long as she wants to keep being as Senator, however, she wants to be President now.  I said there's 11 weeks between June 3 and Aug. 24.  Maybe even the die-hards would vote differently if some unknown news were to surface, don't you think?

You can make anything you want out of the exit information.  It's a free country.

We lose.

Once the narrative has turned against you, you can't fight it.  That is starting to happen now, and it will be overwhelming once the voting is over and Obama is still ahead.  The supers will give him 2025, and then Hillary will have to concede.  If she tries to hold out until the convention the party will turn on her, including many of her own advisers and inner circle - several have already said it's done by June 3rd.  If she insists at this point in staying in, her career in politics is over.  She is a smart woman - she will not allow herself to be humiliated.

That Hillary Clinton hasn't done that either, so what's your freakin' point?

she also knows that once all the voting is done, supers will/should look at key voting blocks and who is carrying them.  looking at this for the general will tell them that perhaps hillary does have the better chance at winning.

Yep. This isn't about delegates, it's about electoral votes. Obama has shown that he can't get the big demographics that he would need in the GE, when his red caucus states go red and his "DEms for a Day" go back to the GOP.

It's my understanding the Gavel, Kucinich, and Richardson dropped out of the race but Edwards, also only SUSPENDED his race.

I hate to get morbid here, but, I'll use McCain for an example (and ask as well of the DNC) What if McCain or any of our candidates actually became the nominee after the convention and died of a heart attack, car accident, plane crash or something and had not yet picked a VP. Do you or anyone know of the contingency plan we would have for that? Not wishing bad on anyone, but campaigning is long hours and lots of travel.

Our new strategy is to give Hillary a chance so the rest of us don't have one?

Sweet!