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By Jeralyn

Thanks to a TL reader who left this in the comments on the Mother's Day Thread: Ellen Malcolm, founder of Emily's List, has an op-ed in Saturday's Washington Post, Quitters Never Win. A snippet:

It's not surprising that low-income working women are the cornerstone of Hillary's success. Many of these women live on the edge of disaster. A pink slip, a family member's illness, a parent who can no longer live alone, a car that won't start or a mortgage rate that goes up -- all are threats that could devastate the family. And yet these women do what women have done for ages. They put on a confident face, feed their children breakfast and get them off to school. They don't quit. They suck it up and fight back against whatever life throws their way....
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....Hillary Clinton certainly has the right to compete till the end. But I believe Hillary also has a responsibility to play the game to its conclusion. For the women of my generation who learned to find and channel their competitiveness, for the working women who never falter in the face of pressure, for the younger women who still believe women can do anything, Hillary is a champion. She's shown us over and over that winners never quit and that quitters never win.

We don't have a nominee yet. The media can crown Obama with the title, presumptively or not, but it's not over until one candidate drops out or the vote is taken at the convention in August. With two candidates remaining in the race, the superdelegates can change their mind right up until the August vote. It may not come to that, but so long as we have two candidates, it's a possibility.

For those of you in West Virginia and who know people in West Virginia, turnout matters. The higher the turnout, the greater the message that Democrats are not ready for this race to end.

(apologies if this has been posted already.)

Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Complete with 57 stars!  Which countries/islands  will be the next 7 states? 

 

 We're electing the President of the United States, not some g.d. prom king.

Hillary Clinton must be the Democratic nominee; Do The Math

via Correntewire

Only one thing matters; winning the Presidency in November. Hillary Clinton has proven she is by far the strongest candidate an most likely to achieve that victory. How can she convince the Democratic Party delegates?

Many arguments have been advanced about how to settle the Democratic nomination. Barak Obama argues that winning the majority of pledged delegates should decide the race – but he is wrong. Clinton argues that perhaps the total popular vote should decide the issue – but she is wrong. Earnest people are calling for immediate reinstatement of the primary delegations from Florida and Michigan, saying that is the key – but they are wrong. All that matters is electability.

This nomination will be settled by a few superdelegates, most of whom are allied with Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Some time between now and the end of June, those three and their allies will make the decision that all of the primary elections and caucuses could not resolve. They will base their conclusion on one factor and one only; which of the two candidates is best equipped to beat John McCain. How should they reach that decision?

Not even the primary delegate totals are an accurate indicator of a candidate’s strength in the general election. Caucuses are an inaccurate reflection of voter turnout for ballot elections, and even ballot election results can be distorted and overthrown by subsequent machinations during county and state level conventions. Further deforming the process is the awkward system by which primary delegates are awarded to each state; a very complicated arrangement based on previous voting patterns, the number of sitting Democratic office holders and bonus delegates for holding elections within certain dates that does not reflect the relative worth of each state in the general election. A seemingly democratizing provision, awarding delegates proportionately, does not mimic the winner-take-all* system that is our Electoral College and this is the only metric the Democratic Party must consider – who can command the most votes in the Electoral College?

...or any of our other Clarkies in Tornado Alley? She signed off yesterday as another storm was approaching.

...via Taylor Marsh. Summary of the sexism directed at Hillary that is alive, thriving, and disgusting beyond the beyond. I wouldn't even dare post much of it as that would sully General Clark's place.

http://taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27653

If these same types of comments were altered to fit a racist theme, jobs would be lost and people would be arrested.