Poor Hillary Clinton
The results are in for analysis of the last Democratic debate before the Ohio and Texas primaries. One-time frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, just can’t seem to catch a break. No matter what she does, she seems to get a negative interpretation to her actions.
We’ve seen several styles of Clinton, as she remakes her persona and her approach when the previous ones are ineffective. Last night, she decided no more soft and emotional - she came out swinging, and whining. Quite a combo!
Barack Obama answered Clinton’s complaints about negative campaigning by not even bothering to deny it. He simply responded that Clinton’s campaign had no problem with all the negativity when it was her group doing it.
With references to a Saturday Night Live skit and complaints about always being the one to be asked the tough questions first (so Obama has a chance to mull over the question and formulate an appropriate response), Clinton is now being accused of being “whiny” and trying to “have it both ways”.
Whether the media has been handling Obama with kid gloves and fluff questions, or not, her complaints really backfired on Clinton. Now the media has responded by telling her she can’t have it both ways: If she says she’s the one with experience who can handle crisis, then she needs to expect that her abilities will be challenged.
This debate did little to change the minds of voters who have already decided which candidate they will be voting for on Tuesday, and those votes will be crucial. Even Bill Clinton has been quoted as agreeing that Hillary MUST win Ohio and Texas to remain a viable candidate.
Ohio and Texas have 344 delegates between them. Of course, Rhode Island and Vermont have an additional 36. But since delegates are divided proportionally by the Democrats, no clear cut lock on the nomination will be decided, no matter what Bill Clinton says. Pennsylvania is still projecting to Clinton and that’s another 158 delegates to be split one way or another.
Now on the Republican side, the Ohio and Texas votes could be the deciding factors whether the GOP nomination is locked up by McCain or not. Huckabee is hoping that Texas will vote “southern-style”, otherwise he may have to reconsider whether to continue his campaign or not. Oh, that’s right, he says he won’t quit until someone has gotten the required 1,191 delegates pledged. Guess we’ll have to wait to see who that will be.
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