When do you plan on endorsing Hillary Clinton for President?

[King]

Discuss

[King]

I just realized I forgot to include an option for people planning to endorse Hillary between the DNC adn the 1st Presidential Debate. My apologies.

[King]

Yeah I have no idea where this "Clinton was inevitable in 2008 story line" is coming from. Like Nagas said, Obama frequently out-raised her. She was generally doing no better than tied in Iowa (with Edwards) and New Hampshire (with Obama). A lot of people thought that once the anti-Clinton voted consolidated after Edwards or Obama dropped out, the remaining one would defeat Clinton.

And in 2006, most of the threads on here had everyone believing Mark Warner or Evan Bayh would be the nominee.

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A more important thing to note is that Hillary did not lose the nomination.  She didn't run a joke campaign and take a non-threat seriously enough.  Obama just beat her.  It would be a lot different if she lost to a joke like John Edwards.

Who can seriously mount an effort like that against her?

[King]

A testament to how strong of a campaign Hillary ran is that she actually won the final contest in South Dakota, even as it was clear Obama had won overall, creating a weird red in a sea of green on the final map:



Of course, people also forget Obama was already the favorite in New Hampshire before he upset her in Iowa and she managed in one week to engineer a campaign to beat him in NH.

AND she beat him in Massachusetts and California, two states where a from the left challenger would have to win.

[King]

I will probably puke my guts out after she wins.

Endorsed.

[King]

It's been two months. Bump