Polls: Tied in Texas, Close in Ohio

Friday, February 22, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a pair of big Democratic primary tests on March 4 that could determine the fate of her presidential candidacy, is deadlocked with Sen. Barack Obama here in Texas and holds a slender lead over him in Ohio, according to two new Washington Post-ABC News polls.

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Barock Star rising!

Posted by sagmain at 2008-02-22 07:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Well--it sounds like Billary is on the last leg.

If she is not a winner in TX and OH--she is toast, out of money and likely to start rooting for McCain.

If she roots for McCain she can hope for him to have only one term and she can run again in 4 years.

What happened to all her money? It is indicative of her management skills--oh --that's right --she doesn't have any. She has 35 years of experience though--rah rah..

She turned on the "me" again at the end of the debate. So she gets teary in NH and just before Super Tuesday and again last night.

The 4th is too far away. I hear an aria in the background.

Murphy

Posted by MURPHY at 2008-02-22 08:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

We need to chip in and get Hillary a set of hearing aids.

The Fat Lady is warming up!

Posted by Mista Kurtz at 2008-02-22 08:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

The news is out and her supporters are not happy to hear, I'm sure, that she spent 1 out of 3 dollars raised by her campaign on CONSULTANTS.

From the beginning of the race through the end of last month, Clinton paid the consultants $33 million -- nearly one-third of the $105 million spent by the campaign. www.huffingtonpost.com

It's funny that with all her experience she had to employ these sharks to advise her on how to run a campaign, and then loses.

What's not funny is that I'm in the wrong business.

Posted by OzarkAggie at 2008-02-22 09:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

Tied? Every political commentator I've been listening to in the last couple weeks said Hillary would have to have a lead by at least a 60-40% margin (in both Texas and Ohio) in order to stay in the race.

Posted by CalifChris at 2008-02-22 09:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Fat Lady is warming up!

Posted by Mista Kurtz

"me me me me me me me me MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

"ah aH Ah AH Ah aH ah"

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2008-02-22 09:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

He he just posted this on another thread, I am gonna haunt Corky with this till the convention....

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Posted by Litlebritdifrnt at 2008-02-22 10:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

And schools all over the country rejoice

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:D :D :D

Posted by Litlebritdifrnt at 2008-02-22 10:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

With all the Obamaniacs running wild I would have though Barrack would win 90% to 10% - why is this so close and him losing in Ohio and Penn if there is this huge ground swell of support for him?

Posted by Jacque_Strap at 2008-02-22 11:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

Jaques

Obama's managed to win in so many places he was 20 or 30 points down a month before. Clinton is a known entity. When voters get to know him better and know a little more about him they seem to be preferring him and thus he overcomes huge deficits.

I'm a fairly highly educated, well read, and hardly consider myself an "Obamaniac". I'm 52 years old. He's the first politician that's gotten me excited about voting again (always have both sides..more Democrats) because of the possibility I see to refocus our democratic process back towards our interests first, reducing the influence of lobbyists and big money, reengaging the American electorate in our process, restoring foreign relations, getting a smile on our face about our country again, and softening the racial divides that still exist 0 although not under law. Obama to me is the best shot we have this year and is uniquely in a position to knock down a lot of preconceptions about America to the world and also about ourselves within our borders

We need to feel young again as a nation and find a sense of being more of a united States. The last time I remember that feeling was 1963. Vietnam came and split us apart - rich vs poor (those with deferments and those who were drafted), Watergate disillusioned our trust in government with the final nail, and ever since the end of that war the right and left have been extremely adversarial on a feeding frenzy of partisan bickering. Meanwhile, average American's interests have taken a back see while lobbyists write legislation, and in few ways do the business of the citizen people of the United States in anything resembling the fervor for which they'll use their office to benefit a lobbyist's clientele.

While all this has been going on America's steered off course to the point that only 22% think we're headed in the right direction. Red, Blue, White, Black - we all pretty much know we don't feel so hot about things. We need some transformational change that only an idealistic younger person who's not a part of the game yet can deliver.

I used to like John McCain until he started acting like someone who's policies I don't recognize anymore.

I just read a lengthly piece on this whole lobbying thing as it pertains to McCain. There's a whole lot America still doesn't know about Jack Abramoff that John McCain has held close to his vest in anticipation of his run for the Presidency. The scandal we've seen so far was based on only 1% of the investigation McCain and the Indian Affairs Committee did of Abramoff, his firm, and the relationship between not only Bush, Rove, and Abramhoff, but according to the articles linked below could bring down many Republicans with household names. You can read it if you want.

I'm not knocking McCain per se, but as a citizen who's been around Washington politics and lived behind the RNC headquarters at 1st and D SE, I can tell you I want an end to Washington politics as usual.

Several articles are linked in this blog entry that wasn't intended to be a hit piece on McCain, but to point out how Abramhoff and the lobbying scandal pertain very much to 2008 and John McCain's run for the White House. I found it interesting, and if 5% is true exactly what I want changed about Washington and why I think Obama has the cleanest hands this time.

www.dailykos.com

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2008-02-23 04:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

(guess I should proof before "PUBLISH'. Well, it is 4 am. I'll add a couple unneccessary commas just to make up for the missing ones above another time :-)

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2008-02-23 04:49 AM | Reply | Flag:

Texas is "No Place For Old Men" and it's turning out to be no place for old Hillary either.

Ohio is still Hill country but the gap has narrowed.

Vermont on the other hand, which also votes on March 4...

According to the poll, Obama won the support of 60 percent of the respondents to Clinton's 34 percent when likely Democratic primary voters were asked how they would vote if the primary were today.

"It's the Obama phenomenon," Garrison Nelson, the University of Vermont political scientist, said upon hearing the poll numbers Friday. "Obama has really taken hold here. We're caught up in the wave of support he's getting

www.burlingtonfreepress.com

08ama.

Be Well.

Posted by dethspud at 2008-02-23 06:06 AM | Reply | Flag:

No Country for old men.

obviously.

Is late.

Be Well.

Posted by dethspud at 2008-02-23 06:07 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hillary needs to win both states by at least 20 percent or it is a loss for her. Even Bill knows this ain't gonna happen. I would still like to know what the terms were for the 5 million dollar loan to her campaign from her personal finances.

Posted by reznwerks at 2008-02-23 09:03 AM | Reply | Flag:

So I'll add American Unity to herm's honor roll of posters. Move over, Spud and Danni. AU expresses well the feelings of cautious optimism that rage in my manly bosom, feelings I tried to express in earlier spams but may have blurred with slobber and tears. herm

Posted by herm at 2008-02-23 01:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

Spud,
living up here in Ohio, I firmly believe that by a couple of days before the primary, the dems are going to be within the margin of error. A local paper here in north east Ohio is running a poll now with about 550 votes and it is 51-48. The high paying manufacturing jobs have left this state since the steel went to hell and NAFTA has not done us any favors. Bill signed NAFTA and I don't buy this bs that Hill was against it the whole way through. Bill says don't hold it against her since he voted for it. Gotta hold it against someone. REPEAL NAFTA

Posted by northlimadawg at 2008-02-23 02:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

NAFTA=CLINTON=OHIO=RUIN

Go Obama!

Posted by Unclesam at 2008-02-23 10:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

AU

How is it posting over on DailyKos? Do you like it? Is the style much different than here on DR? I'm checking out a few blogs.

Posted by CalifChris at 2008-02-23 10:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

AU
Well said.

Posted by tigerbalm at 2008-02-23 10:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

NAFTA was negotiated by Bush I. Clinton signed it into law.

Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2008-02-23 10:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

"NAFTA was negotiated by Bush I. Clinton signed it into law."

Clinton did a lot more than simply sign it into law. He and Al Gore vigorously campaigned for its passage.

Posted by nullifidian at 2008-02-23 11:01 PM | Reply | Flag: