Hillary spending ANOTHER day in California?????????

[Thrill]

If it wasn't really close why the heck is she there for the third straight day?? The Polls are clearly wrong on this one.

[sunonmars]

1. Its the big prize, they both are in and out

Its nearly 400 delegates, its worth like 10 iowas

[Thrill]

3. But if she was ahead by 12 to 15 points

like a couple polls showed. Why would she be spending so much time there? Their internals must be showing to close to call.

[sunonmars]

4. Have you never heard of, don't assume anything

[ProudToBeLiberal]

2. That's why Ted Kennedy is in California and

Oprah is going to campaign there on Sunday.

[bigtree]

5. she's getting record crowds there

Large, loud crowd hails Clinton at San Jose rally
VALLEY INNOVATORS KEY TO U.S. FUTURE, SHE SAYS



Mercury News
02/02/2008 01:37:18 AM

Taking a cue from her chief rival in a bid to become the Democrats' presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton told a loud and enthusiastic rally of 4,000 in San Jose on Friday evening that she too represents a new future for America.

Without uttering the name of Barack Obama, who campaigns on looking to the future and not the past, Clinton said: "The future has been invented right here, in San Jose, in Silicon Valley and California. So let's begin again to show the world and prove to ourselves that we're the innovators, we're the inventors, we're the people who understand the future is what America is about."

Four days before Tuesday's high-stakes California primary, she appeared in the tent annex of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. About 2,000 people had RSVP'd to the rally, but San Jose Fire Department officials said the head count was more than 4,000. Many had waited since 3:30 p.m. to hear Clinton speak for about a half hour.

The crowd responded often with near-deafening cheers as the senator from New York delivered her stump speech.

The audience included hundreds of local union members representing, among others, painters, bricklayers, letter carriers and the United Farm Workers.

"We will make this economy work again for hardworking middle-class families," she told the crowd. "We will begin to put people back to work and we will give ourselves the kind of boost that comes with investing in the future with green-collar jobs in clean and renewable energies."

http://origin.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_8148879?nclick_check=1

[bluerum]

6. There are record crowds at shopping malls every weekend in LA. That is

not especially notable.

It is interesting that both candidates are pulling out the reinforcements to go after CA. I think that this is a positive thing for purging the reuglican influences currently hanging over the state like a death pall. CA needs to be solidly, permanently and completely blue.

[TexasObserver]

7. It's a chess game. Kennedy (rook) to Cali ties down the Queen.

Kennedy is threatening her hold on the Hispanic vote, and if it shifts in Cali, she could lose the state. She has to defend Cali, so she uses the Queen to do that. Meanwhile, her opposing King (Obama) can move unfettered, with only a couple of her pawns to try to stop his advance.

[Nimrod2005]

8. Her camp is seeing stuff we know about...Obama is going to win CA

[AP]

9. To fundraise. Democrats are going to need economic power of CA to win nationally.

The candidate who gets CA behind him or her will have an easier time in the primaries and in the general election.