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Alter says it's over
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Alter says it's over Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 04, 2008 at 11:17 AM "No matter how you cut it, Obama will almost certainly end the primaries with a pledged-delegate lead, courtesy of all those landslides in February," writes Newsweek 's Jonathan Alter in a piece that went up this morning. "Hillary would then have to convince the uncommitted superdelegates to reverse the will of the people . Even coming off a big Hillary winning streak, few if any superdelegates will be inclined to do so. For politicians to upend what the voters have decided might be a tad, well, ...
INTERESTING, AND MAYBE EVEN TRUE? Even if ... [Go Cry Liberal Grandmas]
Wonkette » top —
... INTERESTING, AND MAYBE EVEN TRUE? Even if Hillary Clinton wins everything tonight and every other primary between now and the Convention, she will still lose to Barack Obama. [Newsweek] ...
Marc Cooper: It's 3 a.m. and Hillary's Dreaming
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... Indeed, as Jonathan Alter has pointed out, Clinton can't win an elected majority even if she triumphs in what are now likely to be re-scheduled primaries in the cranky states of Michigan and Florida. Again, we'd be back to the Superdelegates and, therefore, back to a dicey game of chicken by the Democratic Party elite. How many Superdelegates are willing to politically die, or willing to spark an intra-party party civil war, just to save Clinton's bacon? ...
Now Clinton Hints About Obama "Dream Ticket"
Gothamist —
... and Newsweek suggests even with superdelegates and Florida and Michigan votes, Clinton can't cinch the nomination. The Post's Charles Hurt ...
A Brief History of the Longest Primaries Ever [What The Hell Happened]
Gawker —
... It's Been Over For a Month-and-a-Half But It Would be Sexist to Tell Her On March 4, 2008, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter came out and said, explicitly, that Hillary could "win" every state yet to vote and she'd still never beat Obama's delegate lead. This was the official start of the "Hillary can't win, at all, and she's just in it for [insert conspiracy theory here]" narrative. The best the Clinton campaign could do to fight off that story was to try to woo superdelegates (underhanded! shadowy party bosses subverting democracy!) and try to make Obama melt down ...
POLITRICKS 2008: Digging For Delegates…
dallaspenn.com —
hrc HRC goes in deep for superdelegates… I don’t like to do too much math nowadays outside of managing my perpetual personal debt ratio, but am I mistaken when I think that HILLARY CLINTON has no chance of winning the Democratic party’s nomination outright with pledged delegates ? Then why is she still campaigning? In the larger scheme of things I think the Democratic party should lose some of their longtime liberal voters. The system the Democrats have in place with their superdelegates has the party sitting on the fence of respectability and of transparency. With the ...
The Visual History of the Longest Primaries Ever [Charts & Graphs]
Gawker —
... It's Been Over For a Month-and-a-Half But It Would be Sexist to Tell Her On March 4, 2008, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter came out and said, explicitly, that Hillary could "win" every state yet to vote and she'd still never beat Obama's delegate lead. This was the official start of the "Hillary can't win, at all, and she's just in it for [insert conspiracy theory here]" narrative. The best the Clinton campaign could do to fight off that story was to try to woo superdelegates (underhanded! shadowy party bosses subverting democracy!) and try to make Obama melt down ...
