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2016 Postmortem

B2G

(9,766 posts) Thu Mar 17, 2016, 01:33 PM Mar 2016

Please explain the rush to give this to Hillary [View all]

It's just March. Half of the states haven't even voted yet. This is not a Rubio situation at all.

All this is doing is making people dig their heels in and piss them off. People who's vote you will need should eventually win the nomination.

Key word here is "win", which she hasn't done yet.

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Please explain the rush to give this to Hillary [View all] B2G Mar 2016 OP

Well, she has exhausted her "firewall" by now, meaning that from here on, it's down-Hill... Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #1

Yup! zappaman Mar 2016 #5

Why don't you go and UglyGreed Mar 2016 #9

OK! zappaman Mar 2016 #20

Here this may help you UglyGreed Mar 2016 #23

ok! zappaman Mar 2016 #27

Betty! Autumn Mar 2016 #11

Autumn! Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #36

There is no rush to give anything to Hillary. MohRokTah Mar 2016 #2

Perfect! NurseJackie Mar 2016 #6

Absolutely agreed rock Mar 2016 #14

She said that? democrattotheend Mar 2016 #26

In 10 out of 10 national polls regarding favorability, Hillary Clinton has negative favorability RATM435 Mar 2016 #19

They are afraid she will be more likely to lose as time passes. arcane1 Mar 2016 #3

The media has already chosen a winner, and it is HRC. eom guillaumeb Mar 2016 #4

You know, I agree. mountain grammy Mar 2016 #7

They key word is winning BainsBane Mar 2016 #8

Their problem is the longer Hillary has to campaign she has a tendency to fuck up Autumn Mar 2016 #10

She fucked up just about every day before this past Tuesday BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #15

Yeah she had a rough week and rougher to come, thats why everyone from Obama on down Autumn Mar 2016 #17

When do fawning low-information voters care? R. Daneel Olivaw Mar 2016 #32

fear Viva_La_Revolution Mar 2016 #12

I like that sentence, "fear of the people taking power back". ladjf Mar 2016 #31

The same entitled attitude that's pervaded her campaign from day one whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #13

The status-quo-powers-that-be have decided she's the one - if voters mattered... polichick Mar 2016 #16

It is wrong to call on Sanders to quit, and it's dumb geek tragedy Mar 2016 #18

It's nothing new. Just a rewording of "Resistance is futile". Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #21

Ironically, resistance is futile for corporate Dems. Just like GOP, corporatista Dems will be done yurbud Mar 2016 #24

How would she get airtime until after primaries if she truly had it sewn up? yurbud Mar 2016 #22

Sanders is not statistically irrelevant!!! LanternWaste Mar 2016 #25

Count me in the pissed off bkkyosemite Mar 2016 #28

I'm thinking lazyness notadmblnd Mar 2016 #29

Everybody gets to vote if they are registered. Nobody can stop them. Bernie has no path to the upaloopa Mar 2016 #30

Question serbbral Mar 2016 #33

I actually like that they're firing us up. Their negativity does make us dig in riderinthestorm Mar 2016 #34

Because she is trouncing Sanders. Now it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Lil Missy Mar 2016 #35