Hillary Wins West Virginia, But...
This entry was posted on 5/13/2008 8:11 PM and is filed under 2008 Election,All Posts.
She spends most of her victory speech talking about Florida and Michigan!
I just heard her say "the number of delegates needed to win the nomination is 2207, when including Florida and Michigan, not 2024." This is a line Howard Wolfson trotted out last Wednesday, after Obama's blowout in North Carolina. It disappeared after about 24 hours.
The fact that Hillary is using her West Virginia victory speech to push this line anew is an ominous sign that the Clintons are going for broke—yet again. They are using this speech to threaten the party with a convention fight over FL and MI, to say that they are more than ready to drag this thing out till August, unless people make them very, very happy. What it will take to do that, many may guess at, but no one really knows for sure.
If you thought that after last Tuesday the Clintons had holstered that big gun they had to the head of the Democratic Party, you just heard a loud "click".
Oh, and Hill, where'd the amazing southern accent go? You were wearing that like one of the Duke boys just last night! The polls closed two hours ago, and it's already gone? Damn you're good! 
