Clinton Chairman Says Nominating Fight Might Go Through Summer

[DJ13]

Sun May 25, 12:43 PM ET

May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman said a fight over delegates might continue until the Democratic Party's nominating convention in August.

Terry McAuliffe said he wants delegates from Florida and Michigan to be seated at the convention and allowed a full vote for the nominee. The states were stripped of their convention votes after they broke national party rules earlier this year.

``We are prepared to fight this so that all 50 states are included, that the delegates be seated,'' McAuliffe said on the ``Fox News Sunday'' program. ``Let's have no questions about that. This race is still very close.''

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``I'm the strongest candidate to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. McCain,'' Clinton wrote in the opinion piece. Senator John McCain has wrapped up the Republican nomination.

``Delegate math might be complicated, but electoral math is not,'' she wrote.
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``This isn't 'American Idol,' okay? This is a nominating process. We have rules. We elect delegates state by state,'' Axelrod said. ``We expect on June 3 that this process will come to an end.''

``I don't think there's any appetite in the Democratic Party to carry this fight forward,'' Axelrod said.

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[slinkerwink]

1. Uh, this isn't the general election. This is the PRIMARY election, therefore delegates matter.

[anonymous171]

2. They will just force her out with SDs.

[curious one]

3. Where are elders of dem party? They need to put an end to this madness.

[Stephanie]

4. "I'm the strongest candidate to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. McCain" - FALSE

She's proven over and over again that this is false, so why is it a talking point? Her campaign has been inept and unsuccessful, how can she claim to be the best candidate against McCain?

[iconicgnom]

14. Right. Her campaign has been indistinguishable from McCain's.

Which is why FOX likes her, and why so many of her remaining supporters now glorify FOX as "fair and balanced" - and attack every progressive voice that exists.

[CreekDog]

5. I disagree

with "might".

please dear Lord, let me be wrong. :banghead:

[Why Syzygy]

6. This means she will never concede. The only way

she is going away is to be thrown out. She insists on disgrace and victimization so as to excuse her incompetence.

[CoffeeCat]

9. She is pretty much daring....

...the party to throw her out.

She knows that we need her supporters. However, if she gets thrown out, her supporters will
be bitter and more likely to vote for McCain or sit out.

She knows this.

She's an evil scumbag.

[Why Syzygy]

17. I've come to the conclusion that she is a career victim.

She wants to be able to tell how wrong she was done. Victim forever and always.
If she goes into the GE with the poor me attitude, she will be zero help.

I'm not worried about her "supporters". A third of them in the red states voted for Bush twice.
That's right. "Democrats".

[juajen]

18. "Need her supporters?" You sure as hell could've fooled me, turkey. NT

[CoffeeCat]

21. I'm not one who subscribes to that theory....

That's the conventional wisdom spewed by the pundits.

Obama is supposedly orchestrating a soft landing for Clinton, in order to
avoid looking like Clinton has been pushed out.

I could care less where MOST of her supporters go at this point. Anyone
continuing to supporter her, after everything she has done, is someone
who probably isn't Progressive--and wouldn't fit in with Obama's Progressive
agenda and new kind of politics.

Clinton is a warmonger anyway. She votes with the neocons. She's a DLCer, and
that wing of the party is an abomination. Her campaign has only magnified
her Rovian, backbiting nature. It' revolting.

If her supporters find themselves having some kind of epiphany and coming to
their senses--that's fine. However, I'm not interested in courting a bunch
of people who have gone along with Hillary's disgusting campaign and dirty
tricks.

Obama is serious about change, and ushering in a new kind of politics. Hillary
epitomizes the absolute worst of DC politics. If these two camps don't mesh,
that's fine. There are plenty of solid Republicans who have realized that Bush
is poison. Plenty of Progressive, intelligent Independents who will go Obama's
way as well.

[Tellurian]

7. Poor Axelrod...He can't get closure for his candidate!

pretty difficult seeing Obama lost the last five out of seven elections!

[MadBadger]

13. I call bullshit on your little stat.

Prove it.

[slinkerwink]

8. Ok, that leaves out Puerto Rico out of the popular vote estimate. Woot.

[Heather MC]

10. If I am not mistaken, wasn't it Terry who said the rules were to seat half the delegates if a state

broke the rules??

Now he wants them to have full count. this man needs to keep a book of his quotes in his breast pocket, and read them right before he says something stupid.

I would be the first time in his life people would say, "wow Terry's head is always in a book"

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. Terry McAuliffe is a worthless hypocrite.

See his stance on Michigan moving the date of their primary forward in 2004.

[iconicgnom]

12. This is going to get even more messy, very soon. Sigh.

[thoughtcrime1984]

15. No, it won't

He'll get the vast majority of remaining SD's, the FL/MI delegation will be seated, probably at 1/2 as a penalty (there MUST be a penalty), and everyone will declare Obama the presumptive nominee no matter what Hillary says. He will go on with GE campaigning, he will debate McCain, the party elders will know he is the guy and will work for him. The media will lambaste Hil for continuing on when she is down 300+ delegates, with no real reason to think she can win. Many of her SD's would jump ship if they had to, because let's face it, their political asses would be on the line if their steadfast Hillary endorsement lead to 4 years of McCain. Her political future would be no better than most DU'ers if she works to submarine Obama in the GE. She will step down in early June, because she's not THAT dumb. Is she?

[iconicgnom]

16. OK, you convinced me. Thanks

[juajen]

19. Yeah, I'm convinced too. So, why are ya'll so freakin' scared? NT

[NotThisTime]

20. Most of what you said is true, EXCEPT....

They want Florida seated at 100% & they want Michigan seated at 100%, with the uncommitted's getting zero. That is what they WANT, if they don't get what they want, they will continue to fight.... it won't get them anywhere, but they will continue while disenfranchising the people of those states. The Nom will be won at the convention, and throughout the summer Obama will campaign for the General, but this fighting will continue through the summer, unless and until Clinton gets everything she wants....