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Obama wins Texas, expands national lead, feeds dairy cows
6:14PM ON
03/30/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
In that order.
First, news out of yesterday’s Texas County conventions that, with 83 percent of the delegates in, Obama is leading 56-44%. When all is said and done, Obama’s caucus margin will thus overwhelm Clinton’s thin primary margin, and He will carry the state by five delegates. Should be a nice news peg for him if nothing else. BurntOrangeReport is counting the numbers as they roll in.
Next, Gallup’’s new tracking poll has Obama up 52-42%. That is a) Obama’s largest lead of the campaign, b) the third day in a row in which Obama has lead outside the margin of error in Gallup’s tracker and c) Obama’s first lead above 50% of the campaign. As Emeril would say, “Bam!”
To celebrate his growing lead and the Texas win, Obama fed some young dairy cows in Pennsylvania.
“How are you doing buddy?” Obama said as he patted the head of a cow.
As walked further down the line of cows, he remarked to the booty-clad pool: “You guys look really good.”
Asked why he was exempted from wearing the shoes, Obama said: “I bought some new shoes, baby.”
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Obama walked to the pen and put the bottle to the calf’s mouth.“Common on, buddy,” he said. (And upon making contact) “Oh there you go, that is what I’m talking about. Is she going to drink this whole thing? … That is a lot of milk.”
And what’s HRC doing? Threatening to stay in until the Denver convention 5 months from now, and stir up an ugly fight over Michigan and Florida, for one. The death quote:
“I know there are some people who want to shut this down and I think they are wrong. I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don’t resolve it, we’ll resolve it at the convention — that’s what credentials committees are for.”
So how does Hillary get out of the race. This NY Mag piece ends up suggesting that it won’t be because of surrogates and staff, or political reality, or math, or the greater interest of the party. It’s worth a read.
The last best hope is that Hillary will eventually come to see yielding as not merely the path to self-preservation, but also as her only route to long-range self-aggrandizement.
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