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politicoswizzlestick
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Have Pelosi and the powers that be in the DNC lost their patience with the Clinton Camp?
There were a few stories floating around suggesting that 50+ superdelegates were ready to endorse Obama after the Ohio & Texas primaries were done. That would have given Obama leads in the vote count, delegate count, and Superdelegate count and would have been a pretty clear message to Mrs. Clinton that there is no bucket oF Superdelegates waiting to swing things to her. That move probably would have ended the appearance of Nomination viablility and effectively terminate Hillary's candidacy. The clinton camp publically requested a freeze on super delegates endorsing either candidate if she did well in Ohio and Texas. Clinton acheved half of her goal, but was able to get the SDs to not terminate her run.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/ascl6e69rqry%20;_ylt=Age0VWC7jHmjZ.Y0.47uNEWs0NUE
Pelosi was orginally one of the key impartial voices on board with the Clinton request.
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/03/pelosi_freeze_to_help_who.html
I think Pelosi personally favors Obama but saw a window of opportunity for the SD's to leverage their support into a "dream ticket".
Last week Pelosi pronounced any dream ticket dead.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=24923
"Question: Earlier in the week, you were quoted in Boston as saying a Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton ticket was "impossible." Why do you think that?
Pelosi: I think it is impossible. However, let me just say I do think we will have a dream team. It just won't be those two names. Whoever our nominee is, whoever he or she is and whoever he or she chooses will be a dream team as the Democrats go forward to win this election, to take our country in a New Direction. I don't think it's politically feasible....
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Pelosi: Take it from me, that won't be the ticket."
Then on Saturday she advised the SD's to vote with the delegate winner.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_el_pr/pelosi_delegates
"If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic party," Pelosi said in an interview taped Friday for broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Her stance can still be interpreted as impartial. All of the things she has said seem true, but taken as a whole this may be a higher power announcing that the math has effectively decided this campaign and that the SDs not only want an end to the infighting, but may end it soon.
There were a few stories floating around suggesting that 50+ superdelegates were ready to endorse Obama after the Ohio & Texas primaries were done. That would have given Obama leads in the vote count, delegate count, and Superdelegate count and would have been a pretty clear message to Mrs. Clinton that there is no bucket oF Superdelegates waiting to swing things to her. That move probably would have ended the appearance of Nomination viablility and effectively terminate Hillary's candidacy. The clinton camp publically requested a freeze on super delegates endorsing either candidate if she did well in Ohio and Texas. Clinton acheved half of her goal, but was able to get the SDs to not terminate her run.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/ascl6e69rqry%20;_ylt=Age0VWC7jHmjZ.Y0.47uNEWs0NUE
Pelosi was orginally one of the key impartial voices on board with the Clinton request.
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/03/pelosi_freeze_to_help_who.html
I think Pelosi personally favors Obama but saw a window of opportunity for the SD's to leverage their support into a "dream ticket".
Last week Pelosi pronounced any dream ticket dead.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=24923
"Question: Earlier in the week, you were quoted in Boston as saying a Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton ticket was "impossible." Why do you think that?
Pelosi: I think it is impossible. However, let me just say I do think we will have a dream team. It just won't be those two names. Whoever our nominee is, whoever he or she is and whoever he or she chooses will be a dream team as the Democrats go forward to win this election, to take our country in a New Direction. I don't think it's politically feasible....
....
Pelosi: Take it from me, that won't be the ticket."
Then on Saturday she advised the SD's to vote with the delegate winner.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_el_pr/pelosi_delegates
"If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic party," Pelosi said in an interview taped Friday for broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Her stance can still be interpreted as impartial. All of the things she has said seem true, but taken as a whole this may be a higher power announcing that the math has effectively decided this campaign and that the SDs not only want an end to the infighting, but may end it soon.