Virtually Impossible Clinton Will Lead Pledged Delegates?


February 13th, 2008

I found this at Talking Points Memo and it comes with the same caveat I am going to give it to you with. Howard Fineman reported on MSNBC that internal talk within the Obama and Clinton camps believe it is “highly unlikely” she will ever lead with pledged delegates. In fact Fineman calls it “virtually impossible”.

The caveat is that “Fineman is something of a paragon of the mainstream media” as TPM puts it. I will go further and say that when it comes to Clinton and Obama Fineman has been anything but unbiased. Fineman, like many others at MSNBC, is clearly supporting Obama and because of it the “analysis” he gives is not only layered with opinion but has often turned out to be wrong. With that said, like TPM, numbers are different than pure opinion plus Newsweek has a lot of resources and so it might well be true that both camps see a major shift occurring.

Again the ending of Fineman’s comments are a clear attack on Clinton’s hope that superdelegates will sway her way rather than tie themselves to the voting. The delegate information is major news if its true, I just feel bad it has to come from this source and with this much questionable commentary surrounding it. But there you go!



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2 Responses to “Virtually Impossible Clinton Will Lead Pledged Delegates?”
  1. Obama Camp: “Next to Impossible” For Clinton to Catch Up | Election Geek Blog 2008 Election News 24/7 Says:

    [...] noted earlier that Howard Fineman said on MSNBC that people within both the Clinton and Obama’s camp had come to believe that [...]

  2. Tom Tome Says:

    Let’s only hope Clinton gets the nomination.

    Think about it. B.O.came out of nowhere and was hailed as a great leader before he was even elected to the senate. How odd.

    Notice also how the U.S. new media has been focusing on Middle Eastern terrorist camps in Africa and other Africa issues, and ask yourself if this smooth-talker who belongs to a church that boldly espouses black separatism isn’t being pushed forward by groups seeking to gain control over Africa’s natural resources.

    Wait and see.

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