02-08-2012, 05:16 PM
beagledave wrote:
[quote=Grace62]
"WASHINGTON — On Dec. 5, the Chicago Tribune, Barack Obama's hometown paper, reported that new polls showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton far ahead of the Illinois senator in the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania made her nomination look "inevitable."
Seriously? You're quoting a piece from BEFORE the Iowa caucuses (where Obama scored a stunning smack down on Clinton..I remember having to park 3 blocks away from the caucus site because of all of the Obama supporters) to assert that in February of 2008, Clinton was still the presumptive nominee?
Nope. Sorry.
Was Clinton the presumptive nominee at some point before the caucus season started in early January? Yes.
Was she still the presumptive nominee by the end of January, when Obama had 88 pledged delegates and Clinton had 46? No.
You're not comparing apples to apples, Grace.
The date on that article is June 2008. That was some time after the Iowa caucus, as I recall.
Going into super Tuesday 2008 the delegate count was:
Clinton 249
Obama 181
Are you having a bad morning beagledave? If so I'm sorry. I don't wish to argue, sorry this got off on a bad foot. I think we're in agreement on the bigger issues here.