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Originally Posted by e_blazer1
Her insistance on staying in the race seems to me to be only attributable to four scenarios:
1. She's hoping that Obama will make another blunder that will bolster her argument to the superdelegates that she's more electable than he.
2. She honestly believes that if she can run the table in the remaining primaries, she can make the same argument about electability even without an Obama scandal. It seems highly unlikely that she thinks she can run the table.
3. She's holding out for some concession from the Party. As you said, I can't really think what there would be that she would want unless it's the VP slot. Given her age and the fact that she will have already run a losing presidential candidacy, that wouldn't make much sense, IMO.
4. She has some dirt on Obama and plans on using it to leverage her way to the nomination.
Maybe I'm getting a little paranoid, but 4. wouldn't surprise me.
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It could also be...
1. that the Dems continue to register a lot of voters largely because of her race with BO. That she doesn't seem to be taking the high road in her campaigning and focus her attacks on McCain stretches this theory somewhat, but I don't believe she's hurting the party much (if at all) by staying in.
2. that she wants to raise some more cash to repay the millions that her campaign recently borrowed. That she's polling ahead in the next couple of state contests (W.Virginia & Kentuky) would help this effort.
I don't agree that she has additional dirt on Obama that she's not using... she's obviously willing to use most anything she can against him. But like you I don't believe that she can possibly believe that she can really win.
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