The 5 million announcement puts Clinton in the "underdog" position Obama was trying to land today

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Clinton does better when the "inevitabilty" MSM charge quiets down and she is seen as fighting. I suspect that's why the money was injected today.

[DJ13]

1. A silk purse from a sows ear.......nice try

[blm]

2. HAHAHAHA.....Hillary needed a sweep now she WANTS to be the underdog. HAHAHA

Tell it to someone who believes it.

[joshcryer]

3. Interesting observation. I was listening to the MSM and they were saying "Obama is the underdog."

If she can actually flip it as it seems she did on Tuesday, it can go a completely different way.

Remember, NH and NV were decided in large part by "last day deciders," people who saw that Obama was deemed "inevitable," and chose not to follow the drone-like voting pattern.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

5. OBAMA was saying he is the underdog today. Said it over and over.

[tekisui]

6. That is Mark Penn's new strategy. Paint Obama the establishment.

Hillary as the Underdog.

I honestly don't think it will work.

[joshcryer]

9. I doubt it will work but because the MSM was pumping Obama as inevitable...

...it left *a lot* of voters on the fence. A great number of Hillary's votes were people who chose to vote for her on the day of the primary.

[jackson_dem]

13. It may. The media and the establishment are behind Obama now

[islandmkl]

18. You might want to check the figures..

in the states HRC won yesterday: see what her numbers were a week ago versus yesterday. Also, check the polls (aren't we all tired of the over-analysis of every friggin' vote) and see how many HRC votes yesterday were people who had made up their minds up-to-and-over a week ago versus BO voters who had made up their minds in the previous 3 days. All I'm saying is...1+1=2...they teach that first so you will take it for granted when they hit you with the complicated math. Keep your eye on the fundamentals...all the geometry, algebra, etc. can be used to prove any-and-everything...but 1+1 still ALWAYS = 2. (Please don't tell me about imaginary numbers...this isn't W world.)

[tekisui]

4. I'm dizzy.

That's right. Obama's the establishment candidate. That's Mark Penn next move.

[Yael]

12. He already played that hand. See here:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/hillary_pollster_mark_penn_oba.php

Hillary Pollster Mark Penn: Obama Has Become The "Establishment Candidate"
By Greg Sargent - February 6, 2008, 11:26AM

This one is worth keeping an eye on, because we'll be hearing more of it in the days ahead. In the Clinton campaign conference call I mentioned below, Hillary pollster Mark Penn repeatedly said Obama was becoming an "establishment candidate" -- a rather strained effort to use Obama's high-profile endorsements to weaken his insurgent appeal.

[NJSecularist]

7. Clinton as the underdog?

Are you joking? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Hillary herself planned to wrap up the nomination by now. The media thought she would win the nomination by now. By any definition, she is not the underdog.

But keep the spin going. It makes the Hillary camp look desperate.

[joshcryer]

11. That's untrue, the media has been painting a horse race (if not a failure of her candidacy) from...

...the first freaking caucus. Third place = doomed. NH = second or third place = doomed. NV = doomed. SC = doomed. Be realistic here.

[NJSecularist]

16. Hillary has been the frontrunner since day one

Obama isn't a John Edwards underdog, I am not willing to spin it that much, but come on, she has been annointed as the front runner since Day One. Super Tuesday played into her strengths. Her machine was supposed to dominate that day. It didn't.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

17. she is the underdog fighting for her life right now

[NJSecularist]

19. Oh please

She is a Clinton. She's not an underdog. Never was. Never will be.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

20. She's been counted out since Iowa but shows moxie and fights her way back in

[NJSecularist]

22. Moxie?

She had a 20 pt national lead for months!!

[JackORoses]

24. she's no underdog, but she is fighting for her life

Didn't think you would ever admit that she is in bad shape.

[Thrill]

8. I think you give them too much credit.

[katty]

10. they're both doing just fine-geezus, they aren't going to explode

[Nailzberg]

14. It's one thing to be an underdog, but not a broke underdog.

Not when at one time you could pull in 2 million dollars in one night.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Nice try.

:rofl:

You know, you could put all that spinning to good use; hook up a generator or something. You could probably power a medium-sized town with every post.

[islandmkl]

21. maybe HRC is just looking ahead, expecting to have the nomination...

and is practicing for her position against the GE opponent.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

23. Kick!

:rofl: