Of course the Rep will be as hard as Clinton. My point is that by continuing in the race at this point, Clinton is forcing Obama to be more reactive to her and this creates more opportunities for him to mess up in some way - which is her only hope right now. The problem is, it's mostly small missteps that don't help her enough but cumulatively lower the voters' regard for Obama enough to help McCain.
Now you are going to say - he would mess up with McCain too as the nominee. And of course that's true - but McCain would have to be reactive right back to Obama's criticisms of his plans, etc and that gives McCain more chance to misstep as well. They would be on an even playing ground. Right now McCain is coasting because Clinton is doing what he would otherwise have to do - mess up Obama. So this whole thing is helping McCain by keeping him clean while dragging Obama through the mud when, if Clinton dropped out, they would both be muddied. At this point despite my preference for her, I can't see how her staying in the race beyond PA is anything other than detrimental. To each her own though.
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Date: 2008-04-16 11:11 am (UTC)Now you are going to say - he would mess up with McCain too as the nominee. And of course that's true - but McCain would have to be reactive right back to Obama's criticisms of his plans, etc and that gives McCain more chance to misstep as well. They would be on an even playing ground. Right now McCain is coasting because Clinton is doing what he would otherwise have to do - mess up Obama. So this whole thing is helping McCain by keeping him clean while dragging Obama through the mud when, if Clinton dropped out, they would both be muddied. At this point despite my preference for her, I can't see how her staying in the race beyond PA is anything other than detrimental. To each her own though.