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June 02, 2008
Categories: Hillary Clinton

Clinton camp converging on New York Tuesday, and shedding staff

Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes.

The advance staffers -- most of them now in Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana -- are being given the options of going to New York for a final day Tuesday, or going home, the aides said. The move is a sign that the campaign is beginning to shed -- at least -- some of its staff. The advance staff is responsible for arranging the candidate's events around the country.

With the future of her campaign in doubt, Clinton hasn't announced her plans for the final election night of the primary cycle or beyond, but the aides said she would stage her election night event in New York City. Her entourage is currently expected to wake up Tuesday in New York and to arrive in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night.

Clinton's senior aides didn't respond to requests for comment on her Tuesday night plans.

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Heretic

I'm betting she's shedding her staff only to build up her "legal" team in order to wrest the nomination away from Obama via the courts.

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HarperLee

I agree.

Her strategy right now is to command superdelegates who have pledged to Obama to immediately switch their endorsements to her:

Clinton Seeks To Go After Obama Superdelegates - Politics on The Huffington Post

Heretic

Right, right. She's convinced one to switch back to her. How hard can it be?

New York needs to send Hillary a message by voting her out of the senate when reelection comes up.

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HarperLee

I never cared for Hillary, but in January I assumed she was the inevitable candidate. I had promised someone that I would vote for her because of the Supreme Court appointments issue. I bought
into the 16-year hype that she is truly brilliant.

Had she won on Super Tuesday, I would be oblivious to what a lying, racist, evil, deranged, conniving sorry excuse for a woman or a human being she is.

We all know people who have changed their support from Hillary to Obama in the last month or two months. Anecedotally, we have a family friend who was a big money Hillary supporter and who attended at least one $5,000 a late fundraiser for her. He gave
up after her "hardworking white people remark". In the comments at HuffPo, I have seen to many posters say that one atrocity or another is "the last straw." Many, many posters there said that the assassination wish was the last straw. (So many
women have said that they wanted to support a
woman for president, but that Hillary has proven
that she is not that woman.)

The point I am trying to make is that I honestly wonder if California and Massachusetts and other early primary states were polled today if Hillary would come out ahead.

There were only 500 protestors at the Rules Committee hearing Saturday. I honestly would like to know how many old, uneducated female Hillary supporters there really are. How big could that demographic be? (There are 3 million registered voters in Puerto Rico and only 400,000 showed up to vote yesterday - what does that mean?)

A more complicated issue to me is how Hillary has made it socially acceptable for old uneduated, bitter white women ("that inadequate white man") to flat out state that they would never vote for a black candidate.

CosmicRocker and jdanton jump through hoops to cloak their racism in specious, esoteric, idiotic policy issues -- but exit polls show that angry women and racist rednecks don't hesitate to say that they
would not vote for a black candidate. The Bradley Effect will not be at play in this campaign. (Update: danton is now saying at rumbleville that Obama was lying when he said that he would change the way D.C. does business, and that very few people could vote in caucuses.)

I will pray, probably futilely, that good will prevail over evil in the General Election. But I will never forget that the Clintons' opportunistic playing of the race card in the election has set back racial healing in this country by decades.

Anecdotally, again, I proudly wear an "Obama 08" cap, and the delight of blacks and some whites who see the cap is good for my heart.

ibex

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and had people call me a traitor for doing so, despite the fact that Al Gore was guaranteed to win MA in the general election. Now some of those same people freak out when I tell them that Hillary is destroyning any chance for a Democratic victory in November. Her sense of entitlement is every bit as disgusting as George Bush's.