Obama Memo: Hillary Clinton going all out to win in South Carolina

[jefferson_dem]

To: Interested Parties

Fr: Joe Erwin, Former South Carolina Democratic Party Chair

Re: Hillary Clinton going all out to win in South Carolina

There’s an old South Carolina saying that goes like this – some people would rather climb a tree to tell a fib than stand on the ground and tell the truth. The truth is Hillary Clinton’s campaign is pulling out all the stops to win in South Carolina. And it includes saying and doing just about anything to win.

Judge the Clinton campaign on their actions rather than their spin:

· On Monday, Clinton’s own state chairman, Don Fowler, publicly stated that despite negative ratings in the 40s, Hillary Clinton would win South Carolina. The day before, Fowler said “I’m confident with the kind of campaign we’re running, next week we’re going to win.”

· The Clinton campaign has made a long-term investment in South Carolina starting 7 months ago, opening offices across the state and hiring over 100 staff, in addition to importing scores of staff from Iowa and Nevada.

· Just before Christmas, the Clinton campaign brought in Steve Bouchard, nationally renowned political and field expert, to take over the South Carolina operation.

· The Clinton campaign has spent well over $135,000 on consultants like State Senator Darrell Jackson specifically to compete for votes in South Carolina’s African-American community.

· Hillary Clinton has the support of former Governor Richard Riley, former Congressman Butler Derrick and dozens of state legislators and local officials. They are pulling out all the stops to win.

· In the last week, the Clinton campaign nearly doubled their TV buy, expanding from spending about $236,000 on a mostly cable TV buy to more than $414,000 on wall-to-wall broadcast TV in every major market in the state.

· On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign launched a dishonest statewide radio ad falsely attacking Barack Obama. It’s the first negative ad aired by any Democratic presidential campaign in South Carolina this year.

· South Carolina women are getting calls from the National Organization for Women (NOW) deliberately distorting Barack Obama’s record on women’s issues, just as the Clinton campaign and their allies did in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.

· At stop after stop, Bill Clinton repeated attacks on the Obama health care plan, remarks on Ronald Reagan and record of opposing the war in Iraq that experts like Robert Reich and media outlets like factcheck.org and the Washington Post have shown to be false.

· Despite the fact that 59% of the expected turnout in the January 26 Democratic primary will be women, the Clinton campaign somehow argues that Hillary Clinton cannot win in South Carolina because of her gender.

· Public polling just a few weeks showed Hillary Clinton with a strong lead in South Carolina. (Clinton led Obama 45-31% in AP/Pew Research poll, November 7-25; Led 45-21% in ARG poll November 26-29; and led 42-34% in a CNN poll, December 9-12.) Now that her lead has evaporated, the Clinton campaign claims she can’t win here.

· Now, the Clinton campaign will bring Hillary herself back to the state earlier than they previously planned, with a major economic policy address scheduled today in Greenville and a massive rally planned for Friday night in Charleston with both Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Barack Obama is running a very different campaign in South Carolina, reaching out to voters in every part of the state with campaign to unify Americans for change. Rather than a campaign of deception and division, Obama has generated real momentum in South Carolina by speaking the truth, offering hope and never swaying from his deeply held belief in the core decency of the American people.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/obama_memo_hillary_pulling_out_all_the_stops_to_win_south_carolina.php

[rodeodance]

1. well Gee --what news--Does this mean he is not 'going all out'?

[William769]

2. Yes he is running a different campaign.

Using race and Homopphobia, I'll give you South Carolina. But Come Super tuesday, South Carolina will come back yo bite you in the ass.

P.S. Please feel free to bookmark this post.

[jefferson_dem]

3. If true, it's this nation that will be bitten in the ass...

Come November and beyond.

Bookmark that.

[jackson_dem]

37. A speaker at an Obama rally spoke of "racial pride"

Can you believe a Democratic candidate would have someone like that and someone who preaches hate against GLBT folks speaking at his rallies? He is bringing a new politics to our party, a very ugly and Reaganesque one of using hate.

-snip-

Immediately before Obama took the stage, the woman introducing him made an explicit case for racial pride. "Our Latino brothers have integrity, our Indian brothers have integrity, our Caucasian brothers and sisters have integrity," she said. "God didn't anoint one set of people to have standards and not everybody else. This is why we are attracted and drawn to Senator Obama."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303655.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

[maddiejoan]

4. How DARE she

How DARE she campaign!

What is this --a -a- campaign!?

[ginnyinWI]

5. when they lie, it's a smear campaign--I'm not good with that! nt

[Cameron27]

14. That's why I'm going to have

to force myself to vote for Obama if he's the nominee.

[Inuca]

6. The issue of course

is not that she IS campaigning, but HOW she is campaigning.

[maddiejoan]

7. uhm

hard?

[Cameron27]

8. She won't surrender a single vote

without a fight, whether in SC or in th GE :-)

[mondo joe]

10. More gently than the GOP will. NT

[Inuca]

34. two points

1. I am not sure, for instance if McCain is the nominee, I still have hope (though I am definitely not certain) that there are some depths to which he may refuse to stoop
2. even if true, do we want to become that that we despise?

[mondo joe]

38. Two answers:

1. There is nothing the GOP, including McCain, will not do. And even if McCain won't do it, the RW hate media will.

2. I don't despise putting up a good fight. I despise people breaking the law and trying to prevent voters from having a say.

[Inuca]

40. (Final) answer

I kind of agree with #1 (though I still hold some small hope for McCain). As to #2, the issue, the way I see it at least, is not about good fights but about dirty fights.

[MethuenProgressive]

9. Some Obamoron thought Clinton wasn't going to try and win in South Carolina?

What kind of fools has Obama surrounded himself with?

[Connie_Corleone]

17. Hillaroid once again missing the point.

on edit: there's only one.

[MethuenProgressive]

21. So, you're the one who thought Clinton wasn't going to try and win in South Carolina?

:rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

25. and your little term is just OH so charming and warm.

:eyes:

[Connie_Corleone]

29. Yeah, like Obamoron.

But, I apologize because most Hillary supporters are okay. I just got fed up with one Hillary supporter and I shouldn't have taken it out on all of you.

[MethuenProgressive]

36. Obamoron = "Joe Erwin, Former South Carolina Democratic Party Chair"

Clearly, I was referring to the moron who though Clinton wasn't going to try and win.
Spin it as he's scolding the media if you want, but if you do, you've fallen for his BS.

[ginnyinWI]

30. I haven't used my ignore button for a long time, but

I've gotten really tired of all the people (not just you in particular--you just happened to be the first one I've come across today) who insist on using clever little insulting names for a fellow Dem who is supporting a Dem candidate. It's so juvenile and divisive. I'm going to put everybody who does this on ignore from now on, because seemingly they aren't interested in real political dialog, only taking a cheap shot.

[flpoljunkie]

11. The Clintons continue to show us every day they are "in it to win it," at any cost.

We expect this kind of campaign from Karl Rove and his ilk, but from our own party, it is totally unacceptable.

[AtomicKitten]

32. "at any cost" should be her motto since it is her M.O.

[Reciprocity]

12. Right that's why she is in SC right now. Oh wait she isn't. n/t

[Cameron27]

15. She IS in SC right now,

she came back after getting the endorsement of the UFW and the Gov. of PA.

[Reciprocity]

20. Thanks for the update.

It would be nice to hear from her, and not this media spin about Bill.

[Cameron27]

26. Everything gets lost in the media fog,

I think she said she was returning on Thursday before she even left SC.

[Connie_Corleone]

13. For the Hillaroid: The memo is in response to the MEDIA falling for the Clinton's spin again.

On edit: only one person on this thread has won the title of Hillaroid.

Most Hillary supporters are okay.

[Cameron27]

18. Hillaroids?

I'm surprised to see that in one of your posts.

[Connie_Corleone]

28. I can't call anyone out , although I should have made it singular.

Because there is only one person on this thread who truly deserves that name.

You're right though. A certain person's posts finally dragged me in the gutter and I got fed up.

Not all Hillary supporters are Hillaroids, only one that hasn't made it to my Ignore list, until now.

[Cameron27]

35. I know, I feel the same way.

There are a few supporters from each group that make me angry too. I don't know whether they're young or stupid or what, but they're turning this place into a sewer IMO.

[BenDavid]

16. the odds are high hrc will not but you wanna see how fast a

person can drop out of a race...let HRC win south carolina.....

[sufrommich]

19. I thought Hillary Clinton was haughtily hightailing it out

of the south while simultaneously slapping each and every South Carolinian in the smacker.:crazy:

[MethuenProgressive]

22. Like Obama, ObamaNation is flipflopping on this one

"She's given up!" "She's trying to win!"
:rofl: at the political novices

[Reciprocity]

23. I thought the Obamanation said she was Satan and eats babies for breakfast.

[emilyg]

39. Puppies - geez get it straight.

[BigDDem]

24. Man, this is confusing....

last I heard she had "written off" SC and "the South."
Now she's going "all out?"

[RaleighNCDUer]

31. The truth could be 'both'.

She's not going to win in SC. She knows it. She also knows she can't give the appearance of just letting it go. She has to stay and fight, and she has the bankroll to allow it. She's got the ready-made excuse of the black dem majority for losing - which she will continue to use to frame Obama as the 'black' candidate (never mind her commanding lead in SC up to two weeks ago, and the relative parity in votes for each of them in overwhelmingly white IA and NH). But she HAS to stay and try to get what she can because too big a victory for Obama will make it clear that he is not dependent solely on the black vote.

Acknowledging that you're going to lose, 'writing off' SC, is not the same as giving up.

I just wish I could see SC get so disgusted at the both of them that Edwards takes the state.

[DUyellow]

27. he hasn't won it yet, really what are they doing?

[grantcart]

33. I think you got it wrong

she is doing everything she can to stay in 2nd place!!!!!!!!!!!!