Guardian: Obama Campaign Urges Clinton To Concede
By Big Tent Democrat
(speaking for me only)
Barack Obama can convincingly win the Democratic nomination on March 4th. He can win more votes than Hillary Clinton in Texas and Ohio and let the voters decide that Clinton should concede.
Instead, according to the UK Guardian (other sources do not confirm this), the Obama campaign has decided to urge Clinton to concede before the voters in Texas and Ohio (and PA, etc.) have spoken:
Barack Obama's campaign team, riding a wave of 10 straight victories in the contest for the Democratic nomination after wins in Wisconsin and Hawaii, yesterday urged Hillary Clinton to bow to the inevitable and accept defeat.
Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, dismissed the Clinton camp's hopes of making a comeback when the power states of Texas and Ohio hold their primaries on March 4. "This is a wide, wide lead right now," Plouffe said in a conference call with reporters. "The Clinton campaign keeps saying the race is essentially tied. That's just lunacy."
If this reporting is accurate, this is a mistake. Moreover, the intimation is that the voters in Texas and Ohio have no voice in the nomination decision. Let the voters decide, Obama campaign. This attitude smacks of hubris. If I was the Clinton campaign, I would certainly use this. Something along the lines of "Obama says your vote does not matter." Read that somewhere.
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