Obama Camp: Moving On to the Next 10 Contests - It's not all PENNSYLVANIA

[Adelante]

To: Interested Parties

From: David Plouffe, Campaign Manager

Date: March 12, 2008

RE: Moving On to the Next 10 Contests


With his overwhelming victory in the Mississippi primary, Barack Obama’s lead in pledged delegates is now wider than it was on March 3, before the contests in Ohio and Texas. He netted more delegates in Mississippi and Wyoming than Senator Clinton netted on March 4. Obama now holds a pledged delegate lead of 161 with a total of 1411 pledged delegates, while Senator Clinton trails with 1250 pledged delegates. As the number of remaining pledged delegates dwindles, Hillary Clinton’s path to the nomination seems less and less plausible.

Barack Obama has now won nearly thirty contests, over half the states in the country, including critical battleground states like Virginia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Missouri, Washington and Colorado.

Now that Mississippi is behind us, we move on to the next ten contests. The Clinton Campaign would like to focus your attention only on Pennsylvania – a state in which they have already declared that they are “unbeatable.” But Pennsylvania is only one of 10 remaining contests, each important in terms of allocating delegates and ultimately deciding who are nominee will be. Senator Obama campaigned in Pennsylvania yesterday and will do so again later this week, but he will also campaign aggressively in the other upcoming states – he will travel to other upcoming states in the very near future.

We have activated our volunteer networks, are putting staff on the ground, and building our organization in every one of the upcoming states. The key is not who wins the states that the Clinton campaign thinks are important. Throughout this entire process, they have cherry-picked states, diminished caucuses, and moved the goal posts to create a shifting, twisted rationale for why they should win the nomination despite winning fewer primaries, fewer states, fewer delegates, and fewer votes.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Pennsylwhat.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Good, They're trying to change the narrative, that one state is more

important than any other--the one she happens to be doing well in. Ridiculous.

[babylonsister]

2. Good for them! They need to change the dialogue. nt

[LakeSamish706]

3. I don't think that there is any doubt who our Presidential candidate will be. n/t

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Hillary is expected to win Pennsylvania big.

Knowing the media, they'll act all surprised on primary night that Obama lost.

[gasperc]

8. Only states that Hillary wins matter

stop upsetting the apple cart

[high density]

19. Note how our supposed anti-Clinton media

was breathless after her March 4 "wins." There's no similar sort of praise for Obama even though he's farther ahead than he was on March 3, and the math in Clinton's game is tilted further against her.

[scheming daemons]

5. Bingo. k&r

..

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. PA is just another of those 'goalposts' what else can she win?

she must win in PA do or die this time - yes for real, yes yes yes - I don't think she can win anything else. Texas nailed her.

[gasperc]

7. My state leaders here in Michigan are the stupidest ever

in a contest that will include every single state in this nomination season. The leaders in my state made the most shitheaded move ever(over my written and verbal objections) by willfully breaking DNC rules. I'm being lead by assholes, maybe that explains why we have the highest unemployment in the country.

[ericgtr]

9. K&R

Thanks for the post!

:kick:

[Adelante]

10. My sympathies

It really is a goddamned shame they went for manipulating the system.

[LakeSamish706]

12. And no disrespect to you or anyone in your state, but I think the DNC rules...

that were established should remain... In other words, no do-overs..... The rules were well known at the time.

[gasperc]

17. yeah, why should we get a mulligan

won't that just encourage rule breaking in 2012

[roguevalley]

18. bless you, gasperc. I am sorry for your predicament

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. There's no way in hell Obama can win PA

Which is, of course, why the Hillary fans want to make it all about PA.

[book_worm]

13. That's right he's been running a 50-state campaign while HRC likes to pick and choose

what she thinks is important and that's why she's behind.

[AgadorSparticus]

15. you hit the nail on the head.

[BeyondGeography]

14. Right on...fuck the MSM, Clinton/Rendell and their Pennsylvania as Gotterdammerung bullshit

And sorry, Tweety. The world doesn't revolve around what your racist relatives in good old Pa. think.

[gravity]

16. I guess no one told her it isn't winner take all

Obama has proven that it doesn't matter much if you lose a race, as long as you can keep it close.

Too bad Hillary never got that concept for all those states that don't matter

[Cha]

20. I know they're Pumped!

Colorado must be really a "critical battleground state 'cause he gave it extra status.