It Ain’t Over ‘Till….Well, You Know…
While Obama is figuring out what sort of decor he wants in the White House, Hillary still refuses to go quietly into the night:
Those who thought the Democratic presidential nomination was finished might have walked out of McKinley Middle School Friday night believing U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton still has a fighting chance.
Former president Bill Clinton said the naysayers “want half of you to stay home” on Election Day. But, he said, if West Virginians turn out for his wife “in big, big numbers, your neighbors in Kentucky will be energized and try to follow your performance.”
West Virginia’s primary election is Tuesday, while Kentucky’s follows that by one week.
The former president spoke to about 400 people in a hot gymnasium, starting about 90 minutes late. A spokeswoman said Clinton was late because he insisted on shopping at the Blenko glass factory in Milton for Mother’s Day gifts.
Clinton reportedly found plenty of gifts, and he also found an enthusiastic crowd, not yet ready to hand the Democratic nomination over to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
“Bill and Hillary Clinton have a great commitment to West Virginia, and this state loves them,” said Marie Prezioso, the state party’s national committeewoman, who has committed to Hillary Clinton as a super delegate.
St. Albans resident Jim Canterbury, a House of Delegates candidate, said he wants a president who knows how to be tough, and the New York senator fits that bill.
“I think it’ll be great to have a woman as president,” he said. “I think she’s proven to be quite a fighter.”
Everyone knows that Hillary will crush Obama in the West Virginia primary - but to keep her hopes alive at all, she’ll need a very high turnout as a way of telling the Democratic powers that be (and, of course, the super delegates) that while the elite and the MSM have settled on Obama as the nominee, Democratic rank and file (who will be vital in November) have yet to take to Obama. We’ll have to see if she can pull it off, and change the dynamics of the race just one more time.
42 comments May 12th, 2008
