Hillary campaign making big mistake not putting boots on the ground in

[jasmine621]

TX,VA,MD, PA. What are they doing to even try to capture some college voters? Am I just uninformed about it?

[DianeG5385]

1. Any volunteers who believe in her willing to help grass roots style?

[adapa]

19. I"m planning on returning the favor to my neighboring state ME,

in thanks for their help during the NH primary.

[papau]

2. VA/MD/DC are Obama via the 90% black vote post O's pretend Clinton dissing of MLK

[CoffeeCat]

3. She actually has no ground game in Nebraska...

...which is primarily a white state. It should be fertile ground for her.

I just read an article in the Omaha World Herald, in which an Obama spokesperson said
they'll have seven volunteer coordinators in the state. The Clinton campaign
wouldn't say how many they would have. They wouldn't even realease it. At the
time the article was written there were none. The Nebraska caucus is in two days.

Seriously...Does Clinton have the volunteer base or the money for a ground game?

She had no serious ground game in Iowa, and that was the first state. Maybe
a ground game was not part of her strategy?

[Recursion]

11. Err.. Nebraska? Did you miss yesterday?

Obama is cleaning up on the high plains. Clinton is doing well in high-minority states like NY, MA, and CA.

[angie_love]

15. Is this why Obama is winning the caucuses?

[Tellurian]

29. How many primaries has he won?

[angie_love]

30. First, my question wasn't directed at you and it was a geniune curious question

Second, why don't you fucking calm down. I wasn't talking to you!

[Tellurian]

31. Another blind info challenged Obama supporter..

too lazy to do the research... why am I not surprised.

The typical profile of reactionary "bomb-throwers"..

[angie_love]

32. Um whatever you crazy nut.

[Tellurian]

33. heres a cookie, now shut up and sit down!

[BootinUp]

4. She did well with younger voters

in CA and MA

[scheming daemons]

5. 59-38 in Obama's favor nationwide.... but keep cherry-picking...

[BootinUp]

9. no worries I understand

your need to explain how Obama lost that segment in two of the biggest states on ST, unfortunately all you can do is look over there!

[rodeodance]

6. Lots of her staff went to TX today

[CoffeeCat]

21. Ummmm...there are ten states voting...

...before Texas.

Texas is in March.

She doesn't have any presence in these other ten states that vote on Saturday, Sunday and next Tuesday.

This is really...Wow.

[TheFarseer]

26. lots of Latino voters

she should do well in Texas. Other than that and Maine, I'm hard pressed to see any states she has a clear advantage in.

[grantcart]

7. Did you notice in her press conference she completely skipped

over the caucuses when she talked about upcoming states she would fight in.

[K Gardner]

8. She said she was "harvesting delegates" from larger states for a better "return on her investment"

I thought that was priceless !

[NJSecularist]

10. She knows the writing on the wall

[CoffeeCat]

20. It's going to be an Obama blow out ....

...in these next round of states.

The Saturday states will go for him...I don't see her winning one.

The Tuesday states are all his as well. She's competitive in Maryland, but
that's the only state she has a chance in next Tuesday.

Wow. Just wow.

No wonder she's asking for money NOW, and disclosing her bad financial information now.

She knows after this weekend and Tuesday--he will be ahead by wide margins. She'll get
nothing after that.

Holy buckets.

[TheFarseer]

27. what about Maine?

Isn't Maine on Sunday?

[grantcart]

13. maybe she could talk to Rudi about that lol nt

[CoffeeCat]

22. Ummmm...those "larger states"...

...don't even vote until March!

Texas and Ohio are March 4.

There are ten states that vote or have caucuses before those states.

She has no presence in any of those states. If she loses most of those, she's done.

[Renew Deal]

12. TX and PA are far away

Do you know that they don't have anyone in VA and MD?

[MadBadger]

14. Uninformed. Shes speaking in VA tomorrow.

[Thrill]

16. They thought it would be over by Super Tuesday. They just started

putting people in Washington State. Even though Obama has been there for almost a yr. That state is big time Obama territory.

[angie_love]

17. Brent, what do you think of Obama's chances in OH? Is it too tough to climb?

And TX?

[Thrill]

23. I'm actually not worried about Ohio

One thing is clear. The more these places see him. The more they like him. I think you have to look at it like this. He has the potential to go to Ohio with a lot of momentum. He's likely to win Washington State and Lousiana on saturday. And I don't think anyone thinks Hillary is going to beat him next Tuesday in that MD, Washington, VA area.

But yes I do worry about Hispanic voters in TX. I can't understand why he can't get them behind him. But the good thing about TX is there are a lot of very well Educated Black and White voters. And he seems to do well with those groups.

[Tatiana]

18. Clinton already has a pretty big presence in TX. Better to focus on states where she is weakest. nt

[Renew Deal]

24. You inspired me to do some research.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4451547

[Texas_Kat]

25. What makes you think she hasn't?

News around TX says her staffers are already arriving in addition to a strong contingent of volunteers in the state.

[Maribelle]

28. I've heard many Floridians are heading out to Texas to help, and it won't be for Obama.

Her supporters in Florida are extremely loyal, without a doubt. The list of Florida Registered Independents supporting her is growing long. And in case anyone is not paying attention, Registered Independents in Florida are in the millions, and are paying close attention to how the Registered Democrats are being treated by both ends.

Over 10 million Flordians voted in an election where Obama and Kerry are claiming their votes don't count.

http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/pdf/2007/PPP2008_CountyParty.pdf

This number includes over 1.5 million non-democrats and non-republicans that voted on the issues, even though they could not vote for their presidential preference.

The Obama campaign is making a huge tactical error in falsely accusing these votes of not counting, instead of focusing where he should be focusing on delegates. If Obama wants to hold any hopes of winning Florida in the General Election, he needs to correct this lie, and turn the focus back to delegates - - otherwise more and more voters focus on Hillary.

[KittyWampus]

34. they're playing catch up. Running for POTUS ends up being hard work