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By JONATHAN MARTIN

Hillary Clinton’s decisive Pennsylvania primary win last week may have reinvigorated her campaign, but you wouldn’t know it from listening to the Republican party.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has purchased $500,000 in anti-Barack Obama ads for use in two upcoming special House elections. The Republican National Committee is flooding reporters with anti-Obama emails. Presumptive nominee John McCain and GOP surrogates have seized on new remarks by Obama’s controversial former pastor.

From top to bottom, from McCain down to the youthful campaign and party staffers who work nearly around the clock to get him elected, the working assumption seems to be that the Democratic contest is over and Obama has won.

Even when Clinton attacks McCain, President Bush or GOP policies, the response is either outright silence or snarky, dismissive ridicule about a failed campaign barely relevant enough to merit a response.

“With ads like that, it’s more likely the call at 3 a.m. is ‘Senator, you just lost another superdelegate,’” quipped McCain adviser Steve Schmidt earlier this month when Clinton aired a version of her “3 a.m.” ad attacking McCain on the economy.

In one revealing glimpse into Republican thinking, when McCain quickly hit back with an ad of his own parroting the genre, he incorporated Barack Obama’s name into the response and spent little money airing it.

Clinton, it seems, has been erased from the picture, Soviet-style. Republicans mostly act like she doesn’t exist—an unusual turn of events considering her run of big-state victories and the fact that not so long ago Republican campaign plans were predicated on the idea of Clinton as the Democratic nominee.

Indeed, her recent success has only increased the volume and ferocity of the attacks—not on her, but on Obama.

After her Pennsylvania win last week, the RNC did not send a single e-mail focused on Clinton through Monday. At the same time, the committee blasted out 18 that attacked Obama.

When McCain’s campaign last week launched a new morning e-mail to reporters detailing the day’s schedule and drawing attention to preferred stories, they signaled the candidate who has their undivided attention.

Included each day along with critical articles about Obama is the “Audacity Watch,” the smart-alecky rubric under which they take the Illinois senator to task for some public comment or policy position.

There has yet to be any mention of the senator from New York.

Nor did Clinton’s name surface other than in passing in a press release dressed up as a “memo” that was sent out last week by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. While it ticked off reams of Pennsylvania exit poll data highlighting Obama’s potential vulnerabilities, there was again no discussion of potential Clinton weaknesses.

“Even though Hillary Clinton won this primary, Barack Obama is seen as the front runner among Pennsylvania Democrats and is perceived to be the candidate most likely to win the Democratic Party’s nomination,” Davis explained.

McCain himself has become more aggressive in hitting Obama.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9964.html

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By JONATHAN MARTIN

Hillary Clinton's decisive Pennsylvania primary win last week may have reinvigorated her campaign, but you wouldn't know it from listening to the Republican party.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has purchased $500,000 in anti-Barack Obama ads for use in two upcoming special House elections. The Republican National Committee is flooding reporters with anti-Obama emails. Presumptive nominee John McCain and GOP surrogates have seized on new remarks by Obama's controversial former pastor.

From top to bottom, from McCain down to the youthful campaign and party staffers who work nearly around the clock to get him elected, the working assumption seems to be that the Democratic contest is over and Obama has won.

Even when Clinton attacks McCain, President Bush or GOP policies, the response is either outright silence or snarky, dismissive ridicule about a failed campaign barely relevant enough to merit a response.

"With ads like that, it's more likely the call at 3 a.m. is 'Senator, you just lost another superdelegate,'" quipped McCain adviser Steve Schmidt earlier this month when Clinton aired a version of her "3 a.m." ad attacking McCain on the economy.

In one revealing glimpse into Republican thinking, when McCain quickly hit back with an ad of his own parroting the genre, he incorporated Barack Obama's name into the response and spent little money airing it.

Clinton, it seems, has been erased from the picture, Soviet-style. Republicans mostly act like she doesn't exist—an unusual turn of events considering her run of big-state victories and the fact that not so long ago Republican campaign plans were predicated on the idea of Clinton as the Democratic nominee.

Indeed, her recent success has only increased the volume and ferocity of the attacks—not on her, but on Obama.

After her Pennsylvania win last week, the RNC did not send a single e-mail focused on Clinton through Monday. At the same time, the committee blasted out 18 that attacked Obama.

When McCain's campaign last week launched a new morning e-mail to reporters detailing the day's schedule and drawing attention to preferred stories, they signaled the candidate who has their undivided attention.

Included each day along with critical articles about Obama is the "Audacity Watch," the smart-alecky rubric under which they take the Illinois senator to task for some public comment or policy position.

There has yet to be any mention of the senator from New York.

Nor did Clinton's name surface other than in passing in a press release dressed up as a "memo" that was sent out last week by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. While it ticked off reams of Pennsylvania exit poll data highlighting Obama's potential vulnerabilities, there was again no discussion of potential Clinton weaknesses.

"Even though Hillary Clinton won this primary, Barack Obama is seen as the front runner among Pennsylvania Democrats and is perceived to be the candidate most likely to win the Democratic Party's nomination," Davis explained.

McCain himself has become more aggressive in hitting Obama.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9964.html

Yet another piece of propaganda manufactured by the Politico , Obama agitprop workshop :)

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Yet another piece of propaganda manufactured by the Politico , Obama agitprop workshop :)

So, where has the GOP paid any attention to Billary lately? There must be tons of material out there that this propaganda piece just somehow manufactured away. So, dig it up and lets see it.

This is a non-issue. That Obama campaign or surrogates have conjured up.

Actually, with Wright now in the national headlines, Reps are salivating and market-testing their messages. Their special focus is on Obama's downticket effect.

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Yet another piece of propaganda manufactured by the Politico , Obama agitprop workshop :)
So, where has the GOP paid any attention to Billary lately? There must be tons of material out there that this propaganda piece just somehow manufactured away. So, dig it up and lets see it.
This is a non-issue.

So, you don't have anything to actually counter the point that Billary is treated by the GOP as if she isn't even running. Thanks for confirming that.

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This is what I mean by downticket effects of WrightObama imbroglio

Mississippi Dem advertises distance from Obama

Mississippi congressional candidate under attack for Obama's endorsement of him protests "the lies and attacks linking me to politicians I don't know, and have never even met." Keep in mind this is hardly representative: Childers is an unexpectedly strong challenger in a strong Republican district, a place where you'd expect the Democratic nominee's name to be a bad word. It's doesn't really recommend Obama's crossover potential in the Deep South though.

Still, worth a look.

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Yet another piece of propaganda manufactured by the Politico , Obama agitprop workshop :)
So, where has the GOP paid any attention to Billary lately? There must be tons of material out there that this propaganda piece just somehow manufactured away. So, dig it up and lets see it.
This is a non-issue.

So, you don't have anything to actually counter the point that Billary is treated by the GOP as if she isn't even running. Thanks for confirming that.

Hard to disprove a negative/non-issue. Aint it?

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Yet another piece of propaganda manufactured by the Politico , Obama agitprop workshop :)
So, where has the GOP paid any attention to Billary lately? There must be tons of material out there that this propaganda piece just somehow manufactured away. So, dig it up and lets see it.
This is a non-issue.

So, you don't have anything to actually counter the point that Billary is treated by the GOP as if she isn't even running. Thanks for confirming that.

Hard to disprove a negative/non-issue. Aint it?

;)

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Yet another piece of propaganda manufactured by the Politico , Obama agitprop workshop :)
So, where has the GOP paid any attention to Billary lately? There must be tons of material out there that this propaganda piece just somehow manufactured away. So, dig it up and lets see it.
This is a non-issue.

So, you don't have anything to actually counter the point that Billary is treated by the GOP as if she isn't even running. Thanks for confirming that.

Hard to disprove a negative/non-issue. Aint it?

It's not hard to prove at all. All you have to do to prove that the premise of the article is wong is dig up the countless pieces that the GOP has produced as of late to address Hillary. That would prove that they do not consider her a non-issue.

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Here's a cold dose of reality...

Delegate Count: Obama 1732 Hillary 1596

Superdelegates: Obama 243 Hillary 263

...................................................................

289 Remaining uncommitted superdelegates

By the end of the Primaries, if Hillary were to win every last one of them by at least 20 points, here's what they'll both have:

Delegate Count: Obama 1651 Hillary 1584

With current Superdelegates: Obama 1899 Hillary 1847

...................

Hillary would need 178 of the remaining 289 superdelegates to secure the nomination

Obama would need 126.

As close as that is and seems, the superdelegates do not want to take this nomination away from the candidate who has the most delegates and popular vote (any argument to count MI and FL popular votes would be moot).

..............

So, by Jun 3rd or so, we'll have a nominee and it's going to be Obama.

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Here's a cold dose of reality...

Delegate Count: Obama 1732 Hillary 1596

Superdelegates: Obama 243 Hillary 263

...................................................................

289 Remaining uncommitted superdelegates

By the end of the Primaries, if Hillary were to win every last one of them by at least 20 points, here's what they'll both have:

Delegate Count: Obama 1651 Hillary 1584

With current Superdelegates: Obama 1899 Hillary 1847

...................

Hillary would need 178 of the remaining 289 superdelegates to secure the nomination

Obama would need 126.

As close as that is and seems, the superdelegates do not want to take this nomination away from the candidate who has the most delegates and popular vote (any argument to count MI and FL popular votes would be moot).

..............

So, by Jun 3rd or so, we'll have a nominee and it's going to be Obama.

There you go, speaking for the SDs again. Give it up! :lol:

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Here's a cold dose of reality...

Delegate Count: Obama 1732 Hillary 1596

Superdelegates: Obama 243 Hillary 263

...................................................................

289 Remaining uncommitted superdelegates

By the end of the Primaries, if Hillary were to win every last one of them by at least 20 points, here's what they'll both have:

Delegate Count: Obama 1651 Hillary 1584

With current Superdelegates: Obama 1899 Hillary 1847

...................

Hillary would need 178 of the remaining 289 superdelegates to secure the nomination

Obama would need 126.

As close as that is and seems, the superdelegates do not want to take this nomination away from the candidate who has the most delegates and popular vote (any argument to count MI and FL popular votes would be moot).

..............

So, by Jun 3rd or so, we'll have a nominee and it's going to be Obama.

There you go, speaking for the SDs again. Give it up! :lol:

It's not 'just the superdelegates'...it's the math and I'm sorry but it doesn't add for Hillary. This was predicted well over a month ago and Hillary's got no conceivable strategy of securing the nomination except for this wild notion that superdelegates will ignore Dean and let this drag on to the Convention. Sorry, but it ain't going to happen. This race is all but over.

 

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