Sure Senator Barack Obama was favored to win in Hawaii where he grew up, but the analysts said that Wisconsin was tailor-made and fertile ground for Senator Hillary Clinton to win. This makes ten straight victories for Senator Obama. Demographically, Wisconsin was supposed to be a warm-up for Ohio: nearly 90 percent of Tuesday's voters were White; about 40 percent earn less than $50,000 annually; nearly 60 percent have no college degree; and half are over 50 years old — all demographics that have tended to favor Clinton.
Its panic button time in the Clinton camp. That explains why Clinton's aides accused Obama of plagiarism for delivering a speech that included words that had first been uttered by Massachusetts governor and a friend of Senator Obama, Deval Patrick. The charge bordered on the hypocritical since Clinton herself has borrowed Obama's lines. In another sign of desperation, the Clinton camp floated the idea of poaching delegates that Obama earned via elections. While allowable under Democratic National Committee rules, the tactic would likely divide Democrats along racial lines and set the party back decades. It would be the ultimate act of selfishness and foolishness. This is what Senator Obama is talking about when he says we need a change, even a change from the same old negative campaigning. Let’s talk about the issues – the economy, health care, the war. She said that he will not be able to defeat the Republican machine and his reply seems to be that he is standing up to and defeating the machine that beat the Republican machine – the Clinton machine.
Senator Obama is the candidate who rises above politics. This is why he is bringing so many young and first time voters. He has a new a refreshing message, a message of hope, a message of possibilities. Obama is undeniably raw. Less than four years removed from the Illinois Legislature, he stands at the brink of the Democratic nomination. His campaign has gain energy almost taking on a life form. Even the Republican winner, Senator John McCain has turner his attention to Obama and you can count on his attacks growing increasingly negative. He is in the same mind set as Clinton; both don’t seem to realize that the American voters are ready for a change.
It is not over yet. Clinton certainly knows how to bounce back. She helped her husband, Bill, recover from his experiences during his White House run and rebounded herself after a thumping in Iowa. But Senator Obama has won the most states, earned the most pledged delegates and has all the momentum. It has come down to must wins in Texas and Ohio on March 4 for Senator Clinton. Both states, once thought to be easy wins for her, now look to be up for grabs now. Clinton not only needs to win, but needs to win by at least double digits in Ohio and Texas — then Pennsylvania in April — to narrow Obama's lead among pledged delegates. Only then can she argue with a straight face that a majority of the nearly 800 free-roaming "superdelegates" should back her over Senator Obama. The realization for the superdelegates is that Senator Obama is being embraced by the voters while Senator Clinton is being rejected. Don't count her out quite yet, but Wisconsin revealed deep and destructive fractures in the Clinton coalition.
In essence, the Clinton camp made a drastic mistake of believing that they would have the Democratic nomination locked up on Super Tuesday. She figured they would roll to the nomination and begin campaigning against the Republicans with the full backing of the entire Democratic party by now. They counted on the Black vote; they counted on the female vote; they counted on the Hispanic vote; they counted on the White vote. They did not realize that voters can think for themselves. The people want unity. The people want hope. THE PEOPLE WANT “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.”
No comments:
Post a Comment