Whoohoo! Clinton's campaign chairman says contest will be decided in June

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hehehehe...counting the days....

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As talk swirled this morning over when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should end her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, her campaign chairman predicted the party would have a presumptive nominee in June and, if it's not Clinton, she would campaign for Sen. Barack Obama.

The comments by Terry McAuliffe seemed aimed at persuading superdelegates and Democratic Party leaders that Clinton would not hurt party unity by pressing her campaign through the final June 3 primaries in Montana and South Dakota.

"She can win the states we need to win in the general election," McAuliffe said on NBC's "Today" show. "Until there is a nominee with the number of necessary delegates, why should she get out?"

Here in Charleston, Clinton told several hundred supporters in the marble-lined dome of the state Capitol that pressure is growing from party leaders and pundits for her to drop out of the race.

"Some folks say, 'You've got end this before you get to West Virginia,' " she said. "I think we want to keep this going so the people of West Virginia's voices are heard."

She argued that she came under similar pressure to quit after losing Iowa in January, after losing more states than Obama on Super Tuesday in February, and at other disappointing points in the long campaign.

Clinton sounded almost wistful at times as she pleaded for support.

"A lot of you have stuck with me," she said. "You've been there through the ups and downs, the toughest moments."

Clinton also modified her stump speech to acknowledge the overwhelming odds she now faces. She promised to help working Americans "if" she wins the White House, not when, as she has vowed in the past.

"The delegate math may be complicated, but the electoral math is easy," Clinton said, arguing that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is a "formidable opponent" and that she has won more "swing states" -- such as Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania -- than Obama.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na...0,1443049.story

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This is a ) old news and b ) stating the obvious.

Either way, the fact that her campaign finally acknowledges reality is a good sign.

Edited May 8, 2008 by Mr. Big Dog