Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has replaced her campaign manager with a longtime adviser, Maggie Williams, the campaign announced Sunday.
Williams served as Clinton's chief of staff when the New York senator was first lady.
Ex-campaign chief Patti Solis Doyle has been reassigned to a senior adviser's job, the Clinton's campaign announced in a memo to its staff.
Let the spinning begin!
Is everybody gathering the clues that tell you this campaign is in trouble?
Putting a muzzle on her husband.
"Loaning" her campaign five million of her own money. (Or lying about doing so.)
Having Chelsea call super-delegates at home in an attempt to win the nomination even while losing the regular delegates. (Obama has 971 to Clinton's 915. But Hillary has 224 super-delegates to Barack's 135)
All of these are signs of a campaign that is crumbling around the edges, and losing momentum rapidly.
The only question remaining is how vindictive iis Hillary? Is she willing to destroy her party's chances of winning the general election by disgusting Democrats with her conniving enough to keep them away from the voting booths in November?
There are already those within the Democratic party who are very upset about this super-delegate crisis.
Nice blog Gryphen!
ReplyDeleteSomething I have been wondering about: if Obama continues to take the pledged delegates (if he does well in the mid-Atlantic this week, and does fairly well-but does not necessarily win-in upcoming contests), will the superdelegates follow?
Would they jump the Clinton ship? If the people of their OWN STATES want Obama, how can the superdelegates (mostly politicians themselves) refuse?
-Jackie
Welcome Jackie! And you came with a very good question.
ReplyDeleteThere has been a lot of debate about that very thing.
It seems fair that the super delegates would vote in line with their state's choice for President. But they don't have to!
However some of these super delegates are politicians who may be up for re-election soon. They may feel pressured to vote along with the majority for their own political survival.
But others are party faithful who may get a nice ambassadorship if they cast their vote the right way. And that is NOT how democracy is supposed to work. I have heard some rumors that Bill is making just those kinds of deals.
If that happens, and Hillary wins in that fashion, we may see the Democratic party ripped asunder. In other words we could see the Democrat infighting screw up yet another easy election win.
Does anybody else need a drink?
there are new posts over at Huff post tonight 2.11.08 LATE about this very problem of HER people jumping ship- it is already happening..
ReplyDeleteshe is hemmorrahging money and support EVER the Super DELE kind...
( Dk was right watch Edwards tomorrow- he is taking his blog down tomorrow - WHY? have hope....we had faith in his integrity- and I still do....let's see what happens...timing is Everything..)