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Five Indicators that Point to Clinton preparing to Stop Her Campaign after NC/IN
Posted by grantcart in General Discussion: Primaries
Sun May 04th 2008, 01:20 PM
1) Continuing Financial Problems
The Clintons were boasting about the huge bounce in fund raising after PA, including $ 10 million in one day. And yet at the end of the month there has been no announcement. If she had in fact taken in more than $ 20 million then you would expect her to boast about it. No announcement and no rumors.
2) Unable to buy enough ads.
Unable to buy enough ads the campaign has thrown away the law book and made an obvious end around the rules to use money from maxed out donors.
Details here:
3) Change of Message – Stopped using messages that are GE divisive issues
The Clinton campaign has changed radically their message recently and have stopped using the issues that are most damaging to the party in the General Election. She has stopped referring to FL and MI delegates with the incendiary language they used before.
They have stopped even talking about the ‘popular vote’. They know now that they are not going to have any significant advantage in the popular vote.
They no longer refer to issues aimed at damaging Obama. They are running on pure pandering issues – Guam voting in presidential elections (requiring a constitutional amendment) and the silly “Gas Tax Holiday”. If they were going to launch a devastating last minute attack it would be out already.
She is now going out of her way stating that she will be ‘working her heart out’ in November.
4) Change of use of surrogates.
Nothing would be more embarrassing than to send out your ‘mad dog’ surrogates and then stop the campaign the next day. Over the last week the number and use of surrogates has changed and their tone is different. When Clinton’s own DNC Chair changed support from Clinton to Obama – no ‘Judas’ no attack.
5) An indication that they can count.
On Friday the Clinton campaign had their biggest SD day in the campaign. They picked up 4 Super Delegates. There was no press conferences no public appearances nothing. This is not a sign of a campaign that believes things are getting better.
And then there is this video of James Carville that basically admits that, barring Obama taking himself out of the campaign Hillary cannot win:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ACAOYv3DKk
This is not to say that the Clinton campaign has made a decision to stop on Tuesday. It does indicate that if the results do not bring in a substantial win for Hillary that they have layed the foundation for limiting damage and trying to leave on top. Perhaps a speech has been prepared for Tuesday.