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Old 03-04-2008, 09:31 PM   #275
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Originally Posted by Johnny 99 View Post
I disagree. A slight lead in delegates going into the convention means nothing - superdelegates are much more important when deciding a close race. Hillary has none other than President Bill Clinton making phone calls on her behalf. He has many favours in his back pocket to call in. This is terrible for the party - they made the convention at the end of August in order to get a bump closer to the actual election; instead, they'll end up with a contentious nominee with only nine weeks to go until the general election. One or both of them will have to make a BIG compromise.
I've been wondering if she has even leveraged this yet. There's no way that Bill has even unrolled his backroom influences yet.
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