Wisconsin Primary

February 16, 2008

What could be betetr for Hillary than winning the Texas and Ohio primaries? Winning the Wisconsin primary. And it appears that they know it now- or have discovered what should have been obvious. After the Potomac Sweep, all eyes are on the Obama momentum. If he then wins Hawaii and the Wisconsin primary next Tuesday, there’s a whole two weeks of hearing about Obama’s TEN STRAIGHT VICTORIES!

Hillary is losing super delegates, finding it hard to raise money and, Obama is clearly in the cat bird seat for the Democratic nomination. What IF? What IF she could WIN WISCONSIN? Or, at least make it close? She certainly can’t afford another blow out and Hawaii is Obama’s home state, so all troops have been ordered into Wisconsin!

Hillary Clinton sets foot in Wisconsin to campaign for the first time Saturday, momentarily shifting focus from her must-win March 4 contests in Ohio and Texas to make an 11th-hour challenge to Barack Obama ahead of the state’s primary Tuesday. And who didn’t have this on the radar machine before?

Maybe the SEIU decision to go with Obama was a wake up call that it’s getting desperate!

Bill Clinton already had campaigned for her in Wisconsin two days earlier, but as the New York senator faces down the possibility of 10 consecutive losses come March 4, she’s moving to blunt the damage before her firewall contests. Hawaii also holds caucuses Tuesday, and though the Clinton camp has sent daughter Chelsea there for three days, Obama was born in Hawaii and that alone could give him the edge.

With 74 delegates, Wisconsin is a bigger fish for Clinton than Hawaii and its 20 delegates. The latest Associated Press tallies show Clinton with 1,220 delegates and Obama with 1,276. And then you can get another half dozen tabulations. Does anyone know for sure when you ahve such super delegate lunacy going on?

Aides say Clinton may not win, but she wants to at least narrow the margin and keep her chin up going into Ohio and Texas, where her campaign claims it will turn the race back around. Seeking to avoid the kind of lopsided defeats she suffered in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia Tuesday, she’s planning to stay in Wisconsin for at least three days.

Three Days! Does that tell you something?

But she’s also started to use the state to wage attacks against Obama, releasing two ads over the past week blasting the Illinois senator for not debating her. “Barack Obama still won’t agree to debate in Wisconsin,” the announcer in the latest ad says. “Maybe he doesn’t want to explain why his health care plan leaves out 15 million people and Hillary’s covers everyone … Wisconsin deserves better.”

Dragged into it, Obama released an ad of his own Thursday calling her tactic “the same old politics of phony charges and false attacks.” Obama said at a rally in Green Bay he’s already had 18 debates with Clinton, with two more on the way.

“That’s what happens when you’ve been in Washington a long time,” Obama said. “Your attitude becomes, ‘I’ll just say whatever might work to win an election.’” Obama backer and Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has even jumped to his defense, saying in a conference call Friday that the Illinois senator already is in a “one-sided debate.”

This definitely isn’t what Bill & Hill thought was going to happen on the way to the coronation!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News

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