Maddow: "She can't promise to deliver them after today, her leverage is zero compared to yesterday."

[WA98296]

I believe it. The rest is spin.

[flor de jasmim]

1. context, please

[Coexist]

4. her voters, other than a small core of "supersupporters"

[tridim]

11. I bet her supersupporters make up about 1% of her 17 million votes

Not significant. 16.9 million of them will move to our nominee without a problem.

[jgraz]

14. 1% is generous. I'd be surprised if they numbered more than 5000 nationwide.

[HeraldSquare212]

19. Exactly! all this talk of Hillary having 17M voters is just absurd!

[gateley]

2. Is she on MSNBC now?

[XemaSab]

3. Exactly

That was an interesting exchange.

I think Hill's already shown herself to be a bit of a bully, and I bet Obama tells her where to stick it.

[gateley]

5. And what happened yesterday? Thanks. nt

[WA98296]

13. Sorry, typo...Maddow said, HRC's leverage gone today "compared to yesterday"

[gateley]

16. Thanks. nt

[polichick]

6. That was pretty out of the blue - why after yesterday??

[ErinBerin84]

7. also

Pat: She has 17 million supporters, most of whom are fanatically loyal!
Rachel: There's no such thing as "17 million fanatics".

[polichick]

10. She's right about that - at least 90% will come around.

[Hamlette]

8. I think what she meant is, now that Obama has won it

Clinton no longer has leverage since everyone sees it as over and he's the winner.

It was shocking but that's what I thought she meant.

[WA98296]

9. On Hardball, just now, in reference to HRC pressuring herself onto the ticket

Leverage = voters. She can not guarantee delivery any voters.

[ErinBerin84]

12. I think Rachel was convinced it was going to the convention until today

[IndyOp]

15. Has she revealed why she has changed her mind?

Was it what happened last weekend or the fact that Obama will pass 2118 today?

[tyne]

17. I don't know that Rachel

is convinced that it's not. I'm not either. When Clinton endorsed Obama...then I'll believe it.

[ErinBerin84]

20. well, I think that's she a little bit less worried about it now

At least, that's the impression I get. She was talking about how Clinton was saying on the plane on Sunday night that superdelegates towards the number didn't really count, since they could change, while more signals are coming from her campaign that they will accept it sometime this week. But who knows, it could just be some big mind fuck before "HA! Just kidding! To Denver!"

plus, Rachel had expressed last week that the "heavy flow" of superdelegates that Obama's campaign kept hinting at had not happened, while today it really happened.

[gateley]

22. Yeah - I'm with you. I'm not sure Rachel has changed her mind either.

Like she said (Rachel) - listen to what Hillary says. And Hillary said, in today's releases, she's going to work on convincing the delegates that she's the best choice. And she'd got until the convention to do that. :grr:

[jgraz]

21. I'm still convinced.

[ErinBerin84]

23. I won't be fully convinced that it's not going to the convention until it's confirmed as well

:)

[bunnies]

18. Which is exactly why she is not needed on the ticket.

:bounce:

[Tatiana]

24. I agree. At this point, Obama needs to win them over and earn their votes.

Hillary is not going to deliver these people. They appear to be loyal to HER and not the Democratic party or platform.