I have no doubt that she’s in this thing through to the convention. She understands that nothing’s set in stone until the votes are cast on the convention floor, and a LOT can happen between now and Denver. She now has the lead and she’ll finish the primaries with a lead in the popular vote.
The delegates from Florida and Michigan will be seated (hopefully at full strength). There’s no way Dean will convene a Democratic Party convention with only 48 states represented, especially after making a huge effort to push his 50-state strategy. She’ll make her case to the superdelegates out there that she’s our strongest candidate going up against McCain in the general election, and I’m convinced she’ll win them over on that point. And we’ll all meet up in Denver in August.
texasdarlin: Hillary Democrats to the Floor!
In the absence of a rational explanation for this abuse, millions of women (and men too) are fuming because, frankly, it reeks of good ole fashioned back-slapping sexism. I’m not alone in wondering out loud whether a man in Clinton’s position — that is, a serious contender for the presidential nomination who has won swing states (most recently by 41%) and built a formidable coalition needed to win the White House — would be taunted, ridiculed, and treated like an outcast.
As a woman who has been on the receiving end of double standards, and one who happens to believe that Hillary Clinton will be the best President of my lifetime, I want to urge Senator Clinton to take her campaign all the way to the convention floor. By earning more than half the votes cast, she has every right to make her case directly to party representatives in the proper venue, and even a responsibility to the voters.
