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Title: Clinton 'death watch' puts her chances below 10%
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Slate ... or_Clintons_campaign_0402.html
Published: Apr 2, 2008
Author: Eric Mayes
Post Date: 2008-04-02 18:10:00 by robin
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Views: 143
Comments: 3
Is Hillary Clinton's candidacy dead? It's a question that's cropping up more and more. She was a shoe-in last summer. Now she's the underdog. She won Texas. Then she lost Texas. Slate has hooked up a heart monitor and begun the bedside vigil to keep bookmakers and voters abreast of her odds. A feature on the organization's web site rates Clinton's chances of capturing the nomination. Today her odds were up slightly from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent. "When you've got a 1-in-10 shot of winning the Democratic nomination, a day without any major screw-ups is a good one," declared Slate. Her odds today were down from last week when Slate kicked off its deathwatch and opened her odds at 12 perecent. But they had risen slightly from the weekend because organization's heart monitor determined she hadn't had made any missteps over the last severals days citing a collection of polls that showed her with modest gains. She rose four points in Gallup's latest poll but that was balanced by several key endorsements that Obama recently received. The New Observer reported that Obama was expected to win a couple of North Carolina endorsement's this week. Slate promised to "adjust Clinton's odds as polls waver, surrogates resign, superdelegates bail, and, of course, voters vote. We'll also keep an eye on indicators like fundraising, political futures, media coverage (always reliable), and the wind chill factor in Scranton, Pa." Not everyone agrees with Slate's assessment. Intrade, today, gave Clinton a 14.8 percent chance of winning compared to an 82 percent for Obama. Despite the predictions Clinton seems unlikely to die quietly. "When it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people," she told a group of union supports this morning in Philadelphia, according to the New York Times.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Red-faced Clinton tirade stuns superdelegates behind closed doors
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
I wish you all could have heard Angels Davis speak on fm public radio today. She was asked during the question part of the show, what she thought of the Obama rise in popularity in the Democratic party. Angela, never one to give a yes or no answer prefaced her comments with a very apt evaluation of American Politics. How we tend to turn the candidate into a blank slate to right all our concerns with no concern or knowledge of the nameless individuals and their money if they have any that bring a candidate to run for an office. I loved it when she said that she has never been a Democrat or a Republican but she has been a Communist and a Green Party member and voted for Ms. McKinney one of few in politics. What a sorry assed evaluation of American politics and why I will never vote again.
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle.
#2. To: robin (#0)
Clinton Death Watch in favor of Obama
#3. To: robin (#0)
Despite the predictions Clinton seems unlikely to die quietly.
I've already said too much.
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