Hello Everyone:

Here is the CNN Larry King Live transcript where John King of CNN in my opinion fairly explained Hillary's electability argument that she can credibly make to the superdelegates based on her primary wins in West Virginia and in other key swing states:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/13/lkl.01.html

CNN LARRY KING LIVE

Hillary Clinton Wins Big in West Virginia

Aired May 13, 2008 - 00:00 ET

LARRY KING, CNN HOST: "We're joined by my buddy, John King, CNN's chief national correspondent. Hillary's argument is that she can win the swing states; that's what she calls them. What are those states, John?

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there are a number of states, Larry, about a dozen we would look at if we're talking about a November contest.

Let's start though by looking at her argument based on what happens now. I'm going to stretch this out a little bit. Let's start with the neighborhood where people voted tonight.

Here's West Virginia in here. I'm going to circle this area. These are the rural areas where Hillary Clinton has done very, very well in the primary so far. And if you notice, I'm circling an area that includes some of Virginia, some of North Carolina, some Tennessee over here, you have West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Kentucky has not voted yet this year, so that's why it's a different color.

Hillary Clinton thinks she'll do quite well right there. What Hillary Clinton's argument to the superdelegates is look, I'm doing very well out here in white rural America.

And why does that matter? Because let's look at what happens when you run for president. This is an area that -- the red is George W. Bush against John Kerry. He won big in all of these areas.

Now, the Democrats did win the state of Pennsylvania. But all of these other states in this circle right here went Republican in the last presidential election.

So many out there are saying apples and oranges. I showed you primary. This is the general election. They are apples and oranges to a degree, but Hillary Clinton's argument, Larry, is that if she can run stronger in these areas in a primary, she's likely to run stronger in the general election.

I want to shrink this down for you little bit. Let me come out of the map here and pull out right here. Here's her other argument which is, again, look at these areas right here. This is where she did very well, right along the Ohio/West Virginia border.

She says I won in West Virginia. I won the Democratic primary in Ohio. Remember a guy named Bill Clinton? He was president of the United States.

Look what he did. He won many of those same areas and he won the state Ohio. Republicans don't win the White House unless they win Ohio. So that's how she looks at it in the small scale of this particular neighborhood.

Now let's pull out our other map. We'll go over to the electoral college map. These states that have the gold or yellow barrier around them, those are what both the Republicans and the Democrats think will be the dozen or so major swing states in the fall.

And Hillary Clinton's argument -- again, Obama has a compelling argument of his own -- but this is Clinton's argument to superdelegates, is that I'm winning those white, working-class voters. Well then maybe I can switch West Virginia blue. Maybe I can get Ohio back to the Democratic Party.

I will protect us up here in Wisconsin and Minnesota where John McCain is going to make a run. I will put Missouri back by getting those white, blue-collar voters. I can maybe put Iowa back on the map.

Again, Obama would argue he can run just fine in these states, too. But Senator Clinton's argument is that she can put more states in play for the Democrats. Not necessarily that she'll win them all but that she can put more states in play for the Democrats if she is the candidate. That's her argument to superdelegates.

It's a tough one to make, Larry, but she had a big win tonight, and she will continue to make it..."

Here is where John King made many of these same points about how Hillary won the Pennsylvania primary and where he credibly explained why McCain and the GOP want to run against Obama instead of Hillary:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15365

TRANSCRIPT: John King of CNN broke down the map to show how Hillary won in PA!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 25, 2008 - 4:02am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15417

John King of CNN objectively explained why the GOP wants to run against Obama!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 2, 2008 - 2:49am.

On this same CNN Larry King Live program, Clinton supporter Lanny Davis went into further detail regarding John King's analysis above to show specifically why Hillary would clearly be a much stronger general election candidate than Obama would be with the key swing voters who untimately decide close elections:

LANNY DAVIS, CLINTON SUPPORTER: "But let me tell you, first of all, that we have two great candidates here. My friend, Ed Schultz, and I have might have some arguments tonight, but our two candidates agree on almost every single issue. But they appeal to different constituencies.

And this is not about race when I say that Barack Obama has weakness among white working-class Democrats. Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale showed the same weakness when something called Reagan Democrats created super majorities for the Republicans in the 1980s.

The Democratic Party has had, historically, problems with getting conservative -- culturally conservative working-class white Democrats, whether it's a white or an African-American candidate. That was true in the '80s, it is now true for Barack Obama.

It was Bill Clinton who won West Virginia and Kentucky because he found a way to talk to those voters. Now Senator Clinton has found a way to talk to those voters. Senator Obama hasn't yet figured out how to do it, nor did Michael Dukakis...

DAVIS: Yes. Very, very quickly, let's just go back to the facts. Barack Obama has done a fantastic job with the George McGovern liberal coalitions that I was a part of from the '60s. Young people, upper income professionals, African-Americans. We lost elections because of something called Reagan Democrats.

Bill Clinton won Kentucky and West Virginia. We won the presidency in the '90s because we went back to working-class Democrats who defected to Ronald Reagan in the '80s. I'm sorry to say right now that Barack Obama had to prove that he can get those Reagan Democrats back into the Democratic Party. So far he has failed...

DAVIS: In every swing state, Ohio, she beats McCain, and Senator Obama is much weaker. In Florida, senator Obama loses by 15 points in most state polls, she is ahead of McCain in Florida. In Ohio and in Pennsylvania, same thing.

In Massachusetts, my classic example, Senator Obama, in the most reliably blue state in the United States in the most recent state poll by WVZ is running neck and neck with John McCain, not beating McCain in the general electorate of Massachusetts, whereas Hillary Clinton in the same sample, 15 percent..."

These key points concerning electability are what I definitely think that the superdelegates need to base their votes on when they untimately decide who the nominee will be because what good is Obama winning the nomination if he probably cannot win the general election short of getting some kind of a very huge lucky break that happens in his favor?

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15488

The Superdelegate Dilemma: Obama's lack of electability vs. splitting the party?

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 12, 2008 - 6:10am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15487

VIDEO: Terry McAuliffe making the case for Hillary's campaign on Meet The Press!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 12, 2008 - 4:42am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15450

Obama said at a campaign event: "Don‘t buy into this electability argument..."

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 6, 2008 - 5:33pm.

Please forward this information on so that more people will know what is really on the line as this nomination is decided when much of the media "have all but anointed Barack Obama the Democratic nominee:"

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15496

Howard Kurtz: "media have all but anointed Barack Obama the Democratic nominee"

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 13, 2008 - 7:22am.

The superdelegates in my opinion are risking political suicide if they vote to give the nomination to such a weak general election candidate like Obama. Change is only change IF a candidate can get elected so Obama will NOT be able to change anything if he cannot get elected just like how John Kerry could not change anything after he lost to Bush in 2004!

Mitch Dworkin

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
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http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
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