12% and 72 hours

[underpants]

Obama has 72 hours. If he can ride out the onslaught that is coming his way over this weekend he will be okay. If he can get to Monday afternoon without taking their bait and going negative or making a really horrendous live-on-the-air move he will be okay. I think the ABC debate was just the opening and they fired their biggest weapons at him and he didn't go down. Stumbled a bit sure but he bounced back up.

This is pretty much the last shot the establishment has of getting rid of the competition for their known quantity. Obama isn't a radical but they also don't have dirt-real personal dirt- to use on him. Even with the availability of whatever endless wiretapping and spying would normally provide they haven't been able to make him go away or turned the screws on him and make him drop out. This is unknown territory for them and they don't like unknowns. If THEY have anything in their pocket it has to come out now.

MSM will be completely on board of course but as with almost everything else related to the Clinton campaign the came out of the gate late and awkwardly (ABC debate). Unorganized and not thought out.

It is going to be a rough nasty weekend. Hold on.


12%-she has to win by at least 12% or the slide of superdelegates over to Obama will begin. 20% and she might just be able to get to Denver with a reasonable excuse to be there and then she and Bill can start wielding their influence (and they have lots of that) on the party's power players.

12% and 72 hours.