How Pa. extension benefited Clinton (sorta)

[Blue State Bandit]

Source: Philadelphia Daily News

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Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign failed to file a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

This despite the possibility the primary proves critical and despite Clinton owning the full-throated support of Gov. Rendell, state Democratic Party leadership, Mayor Nutter and, presumably, the organizational skill all that entails.

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It appears Clinton came up 10 or 11 candidates short across a number of congressional districts, including two in Philadelphia. That's close to 10 percent of the 103 delegates to be decided by voters.

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The filing deadline was Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. But it was extended by Rendell until noon last Thursday, easing Clinton's filing woes.







Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/15759032.html

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Technicaly, she may still get to seat the delegates, but you'd think that the candidate that's "Ready to Lead on Day One" wouldn't have needed an extra day, just to come up short.

[DJ13]

1. She was probably having problems

.......finding anyone who supported her.

:shrug:

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Only among Internet addicts

Most of us Pennsylvanians like Hillary just fine. The rest of us like Obama. And we're not pissing on each others' faces.

--p!

[Yael]

5. Hi neighbor

Actually -- when we were out collecting sigs for JRE (weekend after we kicked off 1/22), there were a lot of Obama people out but not any for Hillary because they didn't think it would be needed.

With needing 250 registered dems to sign for each delegate and each dem could only sign 4 petitions, I can believe that this was an afterthought to the Clinton campaign after 2/5.

[Yael]

3. It wasn't a "sorta"

Her people were having trouble getting the 250 signatures needed to apply.

We can only sign 4 petitions here, so are limited.

Her campaign made it clear that this would be over on 2/5 -- so they didn't get a ground game for delegates.

Fast Eddie stepped up to the plate on 2/6 for her though -- to give her another chance to get signatures.

[Blue State Bandit]

6. "Still not ready 2 1/2 days later."

Sounds like a winning campaign slogan to me.

:sarcasm:

[Dems Will Win]

4. This will become a huge story as a frontrunner not filing a full slate

in a close race has NEVER happened before and shows true incompetence. This is what you get when you appoint your secretaries as campaign managers so no one reveals your secrets.

This destroys her main slogan "Ready on Day One" and that is what the pundits will go on and on about from their mighty high horse.

[stratomagi]

7. Call me crazy but...

Is it just me or does Hillary's campaign not being ready for anything after Super Tuesday seem eerily similar to the idea that we will be greeted as liberators in Iraq? I guess if she's going to jump to conclusions like the Bush administration then she thinks that makes her "ready on day one."

[Dems Will Win]

8. They will all say How Shocked they are this could happen