Whether or not she wins her party’s nomination, and it appears she won’t no matter what happens in Pennsylvania’s primary, the former First Lady will leave the race with two impressions weighing heavy on her.
The first is that socialism sucks.
The second, that there is indeed a media bias.
Perhaps Hillary Rodham Clinton will rethink some of her affirmative action policy positions after her campaign has been barely treading water thanks to her party’s delegate allocation rules that generously rewards failure.
Not counting Florida, since Dr. Dean and the DNC isn’t any way, Clinton has carried three of the largest states in the Union: California, Texas and New York.
Hillary’s win in California was by 8 percentage points, a veritable landslide considering how Hollywood has been swooning for Barack Obama,Yet Hillary only netted a mere 38 delegates over Obama.In contrast, John McCain didn’t even win a majority in California though he led Mitt Romney also by 8 percentage points yet netted 140 more delegates.
Her most recent home state of New York was far more generous to their adopted daughter.Hillary carried every county but one and had a margin of 17 points but got only 47 more delegates than Obama.
McCain was the only Republican candidate to win delegates in New York.
Hillary’s win in Texas, which has possibly the worst system for delegate allocation imaginable- even worse than the Louisiana GOP’s flawed “majority or else rule”- gave her a mere 4 vote edge.That’s right, all of that campaigning and media investing and you limped out the LoneStarState with the delegate margin she could have won by sweeping American Samoa’s delegates, which awards a relatively princelier sum of 9.
In contrast, McCain garnered a 100+ delegate edge and “officially” ended the GOP nomination skirmish.
And that basically sums up why Hillary won’t be nominee.It’s not that she isn’t winning; it’s that her party’s nomination rules don’t reward winning; it rewards diversity and participation…which at least is consistent with their record of social engineering through public policy, also a failure.
And then there is Vast Media Conspiracy against the Clintons.Nothing this year has brought a smirk to my face than listening to a Democratic operative aligned with Hillary complain how the media is sticking it to their candidate while giving the Barack Star a pass.
Somewhere in heaven (or others might imagine a more southernly, warm place), a scowling man with Herblock-accented jowls is lighting candles for candidate Clinton.
Sure Hillary becoming president would be history-making.It would trump the Houses of Adams and Bush in importance in terms of familial succession, at least within the realm of tavern trivia.
But Democratic male voters don’t seem so enlightened on the subject of supporting a female for president.And the gender defectors have been coming from the other side!
Sure liberal women want a sister for a president, but like any leading lady from the silver screen era, they’re suckers for a smooth leading man.So much for running with wolves, particularly when half of female Democratic voters in some states would rather roll with the O-man.
Hillary is going to win Pennsylvania.And it will be big.
If her campaign is putting out “internals” that show her having an 11-point lead, the one should expect a blow-out, perhaps in excess of 15 points.Why else would they leak their own polling data in advance, since Obama could salvage a moral victory by now beating the spread laid out by the Clinton camp.
But judging by their ridiculously large deli bill from Iowa and the lack of homework they put into the mechanics of the primary/caucus process, Clinton’s campaign have made similar mistakes.Anything under a ten-point margin will be a strategic defeat, but that’s unlikely to happen.
On a recent sojourn to Pittsburgh and Shanksville, I noticed Obama had plenty of signs up on people’s lawns in the big city but upon venturing out to the sticks, it was all Hillary.And while yard signs are hardly an accurate barometer of the public’s pulse, you can pick up general trends, particularly in a polarized race such as this one.
On Tuesday, the small-minded, God and gun-gripping folk strike back.
