Hillary Needs Drivers & Callers in IN & NC

by anna belle, Tue May 06, 2008 at 10:04:29 AM EST

Good morning! It's a gorgeous spring day here in Indiana, and I was about to head out to offer my first home-bound voter a ride to her poll. I'll be offering rides all over the tri-country area where I live until the polls close this evening.  I've never done this before, but I've been delighted with the rest of my experience volunteering, so I expect I'll have a great time today, and meet some amazing people.

I'm giving my whole tank of gas to show my support for Hillary caring about gas prices. If you live in Indiana or North Carolina, you can help. Find your Indiana Headquarters here. I can't find info for NC, but if you look around www.hillaryclinton.com, you may be able to find it.

If you are not an Indiana or North Carolina resident, you can call to GOTV now! Make phone calls to GOTV here. It's super easy!

I beg you to participate instead of hanging around blogs all day today. Hillary needs you!




Tags: Hillary Clinton, Election 2008 (all tags)

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Tips for volunteers! (2.00 / 2)


Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by anna belle on Tue May 06, 2008 at 10:12:37 AM EST

Calls (2.00 / 1)

I will be calling all day today from here in San Diego....


by nikkid on Tue May 06, 2008 at 10:37:57 AM EST

The Rational (2.00 / 1)

The only interesting question is whether Obama will win big enough in NC for the supers to start falling off the fence in big numbers.  If there really is the potential for a 2 million turnout in NC, Obama could put a net 100,000 popular votes back on the board tomorrow bringing his margin back above 700,000, out of reach for Hillary with only about 3 million people left to vote.  The net delegates for Hillary out of PA-NC-IN will likely not exceed eight (still a lot better for Hillary than the draw or worse that would have been expected before the Second Coming of Wright, engineered no doubt by Hillary's campaign).

So, what do you think the supers will make of the fact that with Bitter-gate, Wright redux, more than 4 million votes cast and 349 delegates selected Hillary will have gained perhaps 8 pledged delegates against Obama's pre-PA lead of 166 and something like 100,000 net popular votes -- about 2.5% of the delegates and 2.5% of the popular vote.  Net, these were supposed to be good demographics for Hillary.

If she performs as well in the remaining primaries, she could expect to be down more than 150 pledged delegates and more than 500,000 popular votes at the end of races on June 3.

I haven't done a lot of research on the Electoral College map, but a review of Rasmussen today showed that, of the 31 states for which they posted poll results, 5 would flip from Hillary to Obama if Obama were the candidate and none the other way.

So, please remind me, what is the argument for Hillary to receive the nomination?  What will it take for 100 more supers to fall off the fence, bringing the uncommitted pool down to 168 out of which Hillary would likely have to make up a net of approximately 135 (giving credit for her 15 net supers today)?  

If even 70 more supers fall off the fence covering Obama's 15 shortfall there and he is still more than 150 pledged delegates ahead on May 7, can we finally move on to the general election?  Can the Hillaristas admit at that point that she will not capture more than 80% of the uncommitted supers under any plausible circumstance?


Obama/Warner 2008
by MissVA on Tue May 06, 2008 at 10:47:46 AM EST

I would say (none / 0)

15 point wins by Clinton in both IN and NC would swing the SDs. Anything less than that and the drip continues.


by parahammer on Tue May 06, 2008 at 11:36:13 AM EST
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