James Carville a staunch and at times ornery advocate of Sen. Hillary Clinton told students at South Carolina’s Furman University that the “great likelihood” is that Sen. Obama will take the nomination. Carville urged that it was important for Clinton to stay in the race until the end, but this is one more signal that the Clinton campaign is winding down and beginning to accept what seems inevitable.
Let’s face facts here, Hillary Clinton doesn’t have a shot in hell of winning this thing, not by any available positive means. Sure the superdelegates could ignore the fact that Obama has the popularity, but that won’t happen. Even with an honest seating of Florida and Michigan delegates, Clinton cannot win. She needs to win by astronomical margins in the remaining states and even then we are looking at a race that is deadlocked.
There is another reality occurring, a fiscal reality. Today’s reports are that Clinton has loaned herself another $6.4 Million this past month. The campaign is out of money and doesn’t have a shot of raising enough to be competitive, not this year.
No more telling sign was the exhaustion on Bill Clinton’s face last night, as most in the media immediately picked up on. The Clinton’s looked as exhausted as their campaign has become.
I personally have always been against the media’s push for Clinton to exit the race after every primary since Iowa. With that said, this time I have to join them. It makes no sense to keep moving when they are this far into the quicksand.
Pat Buchanan on MSNBC offered the best advice I have heard. Clinton should immediately end the negative attacks, pull together and start running a campaign of reconciliation. She should sit down with advisers and in my opinion with the Obama people and figure out the best way to get out gracefully, on top and working to unite the Democratic Party.
In short, it is time to realize this campaign is over and be bigger than oneself. The exit polling and the results showed a lot of very bad news for the Democrats. A party split, rural voters who aren’t likely to jump aboard the Obama bandwagon and potential for big losses come November. If the party wants to win, they need to come together long before June.
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore ended his long-shot campaign for presidency on Saturday, acknowledging he couldn’t raise enough money.
The former Republican National Committee chairman is the first of the 10 GOP presidential candidates to drop out. He barely registered in the polls, and his latest financial disclosure report showed him with about $90,000 in cash on hand.
