The world shares the pain of Democrats, as Hillary continues to swing away at Barack Obama – statistics be damned.
Arguing that Obama still seems like the better candidate, Patrik Etschmayer for Switzerland’s Nachrichten describes the pair as “political zombies:”
“One must question how Clinton would stand up in a campaign against McCain. Her argument is that she would draw more of her opponents’ core-voters. But Obama does something that Clinton no longer wangles: he mobilizes new voters. The Clinton camp wants to take a slice of McCain’s pie, while Obama wants to bake his own.”
“And this is precisely what Clinton seems to want to prevent with her war of attrition. She has never offered a new perspective – only tried and tested ones. That was supposed to be enough. But then came Obama, who turned her into a zombie-candidate. If you’re not attractive enough, one must paint your opponent as even uglier. Unfortunately, Obama has begun to display certain Clintonesque properties – the bitterness of the primary elections has left its mark, transforming he, too, into a political zombie.”
By Patrik Etschmayer
Translated By Patrik Etschmayer
April 24, 2008
Switzerland – Nachrichten – Original Article (German)
Yup, she’s done it. Hillary Clinton holds on in the race. First and foremost because she can. There’s no good reason for her to believe that the approaching Primaries, which are supposed to be non-Hillary States since they are bereft of her cohort of elderly White voters, will help her close the gap with Obama.
Instead, it looks as though she’ll come to the Democratic Convention as a strong but losing second-place-finisher trying to scoop up Superdelegates, the 800-member Democratic nobility that will almost certainly have the last word on the nomination of John McCain’s opponent. But what could Clinton’s argument for these votes possibly be? That she never quits and wouldn’t accept defeat?
And perhaps that’s the killer argument. Many U.S. Democrats recall the last presidential election in which John Kerry – having amassed a veritable army of lawyers and volunteers behind him to fight irregularities in vote counting – simply abandoned the fight. This despite glaring irregularities in Ohio and the possibility that for a second time, Democrats had lost an election to George W. Bush because votes were counted incorerectly.
A bitter, unyielding campaigner who is willing stoop as low as needed, won’t give a hair’s-inch of ground and who’ll fight to the last moment for the last vote and be the last one standing – that would likely be the right opponent for John McCain.
The objective of the next election should be that not a single vote goes uncounted. But in the face of America’s repeated and almost notorious election irregularities – even in the Pennsylvania primary – this could be just a pious wish.
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