Hillary Clinton prepared to take "incendiary steps" to beat back Barack

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Senator Barack Obama emerged from Tuesday's primaries leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by more than 100 delegates, a small but significant advantage that Democrats said would be difficult for Mrs. Clinton to make up in the remaining contests in the presidential nomination battle.

Neither candidate is expected to win the 2,025 pledged delegates needed to claim the nomination by the time the voting ends in June. But Mr. Obama's campaign began making a case in earnest on Wednesday that if he maintained his edge in delegates won in primaries and caucuses, he would have the strongest claim to the backing of the 796 elected Democrats and party leaders known as superdelegates who are free to vote as they choose and who now stand to determine the outcome.

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With every delegate precious, Mrs. Clinton's advisers also made it clear that they were prepared to take a number of potentially incendiary steps to build up Mrs. Clinton's count. Top among these, her aides said, is pressing for Democrats to seat the disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan, who held their primaries in January in defiance of Democratic Party rules.

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Mrs. Clinton's advisers acknowledged that it would be difficult for her to catch up in the race for pledged delegates even if she succeeded in winning Ohio and Texas in three weeks and Pennsylvania in April. They said the Democratic Party's rules, which award delegates relatively evenly among the candidates based on the proportion of the vote they receive, would require her to win by huge margins in those states to match Mr. Obama in delegates won through voting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/us/polit...4delegates.html

Edited February 14, 2008 by VJ Troll

[almaty 19]

wow, this is going to get nasty and in the end, spilt the dem. party...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Trying to change the rules after the game is played is the only way for the Clinton's to get "Ms. Inevitable" the nomination. And they'll sure try hard for that. Whatever it takes. Never mind the will of the people.

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"The people" will forget. They always do. Hillary is counting on that.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

"The people" will forget. They always do. Hillary is counting on that.

The people will elect John McCain if he gets to run against Hillary.

[almaty 19]

maybe not this time..i think there is allot of loyalty to obama by his followers and if it is felt that the clinton's f##k him..then..mccain will ahve allot of new supporters....

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I don't know about that, guys. I think Obama will fall in line if Hillary steals this from him. It will quickly be forgotten, as most primary battles tend to be.

[almaty 19]

maybe, you are right..and yes, obama will not make waves..he count on hillary losing and he will run the next time as the front runner