Harry Reid: Of course Clinton won MI & FL she has name recognition.

[bunnies]

Another blow to Camp Hillary.

Reid Starts to Walk Clinton Off the Stage

(snip)
Until now, Reid has taken great pains not to be seen as favoring Obama's arguments or Clinton's arguments. Today, that balancing act ended. Reid basically dismissed Clinton's claim that she leads in the popular vote - a centerpiece of her letter and memo to superdelegates yesterday about why she's more electable than Obama.

"The nominee is not determined on popular vote. It's determined on delegates," Reid said.

As for the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations, Reid said both states "should be counted in some way." But he also said "common sense indicates" that neither one had a true election, since none of the candidates were allowed to campaign there - allowing Clinton to win an advantage because of her famous name.

"Of course an election was held," Reid said. "But - I've been neutral in this, but being very realistic and candid - Clinton, her husband was president of the United States. He had a name that was well known. She had a name that was well known. Obama? Certainly she would do better when there was no campaign."
(snip)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/beyond/2008/05/reid-starts-to-walk-clinton-of.html

[dchill]

1. Faint praise...

damned.

[JimGinPA]

2. Hillary Can't Keep Pretending Much Longer...

"Between Reid's comments and Pelosi's remarks to the San Francisco Chronicle this morning that "I will step in" to make sure the fight doesn't go to the convention, Clinton is now facing some awfully large writing on the wall."



KR

[NotThisTime]

3. Sure, when I say that nobody listens LOL...

[geiger]

4. this is ridiculous. neither candidate should have had their name on the ballot in either state.

even if that's not a technical violation of the 'rules," then it violates the spirit of the ruleyes, if neither state was supposed to count if they broke the rules to begin with. will noone stand up to this woman, not even the Majority Leader?

[bunnies]

8. Pretty pathetic isnt it?

Good to know that (at least) they recognize her "wins" for what they were. Completely and totally meaningless.

[geiger]

5. this is ridiculous. dup

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[Oregone]

6. ding ding ding....a contest based soley on name recognition isn't exactly a "democratic" election

[Indenturedebtor]

7. BS!

I'm not going to let any of you sit here and tell me that I changed my name to Legaliseitdon'tcriticizeIt Freebeerforeveryone Jones for nothing! :grr:

Bout damn time he spoke up on this. Now how about getting Clinton to appologize for doing her best to destroy the Dem Party?

[Oregone]

13. LOL...yeah, thats would definately brought you in some delegates

[bunnies]

10. Which is exactly why the delegates cant be seated as-is.

If Obama hadn't campaigned anywhere, I'd bet she would have won every state. Though I suspect she'd be totally fine with that.

[AllentownJake]

9. Wonder who Harry is endorsing on Wednesday

Hmmm.

[DerekJ]

11. ...

:shrug:

Not obvious at all.

[bunnies]

12. heh. Same for Pelosi.

Its a real nail-biter. :toast:

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. When Harry met Nancy....

Big ups for growing the spine that's been sorely missing. Thank You. :bounce:

[Romulox]

15. Reid doesn't exactly have clean hands here. Nor is he disinterested.

Coincidence that Nevada was added as one of the early 4? Hmmmm....

[Oleladylib]

16. well ...DAH...reid.