Plenty of establishment Democrats want Hillary Clinton to win the nomination. As the Clintons’ heyday was also the high point for the DLC, the Hillary Clinton supporter camp can also be seen broadly as more conservative than the younger, more liberal band of Barack Obama supporters.
New Hampshire is a conservative state–the only one in the northeast to vote for George W. Bush in 2000, for example–and its voters only narrowly went in favor of Clinton over Obama in yesterday’s Democratic primary. It’s not as good as a win but this should be good enough for the Obama campaign for now, as they will probably realize they need to sharpen their campaign to stay competitive over the long haul–keep introducing new proposals, new endorsements, new events, and of course–more Oprah–while continuing to remind voters what a dangerously unwise pick Hillary Clinton would be.
A bit of sharpening is in order, as I said–this is not a coronation!!–but as someone that thinks that he can win I believe the overall style of Barack Obama’s campaign shouldn’t change. He has been down before in this campaign and has bounced back. But as long as he continues to run on his record and the prospect of real change, Obama should be able to weather a few days of negative coverage and the Clinton campaign’s coming attacks, win the big primaries, and come out with the nomination.
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