| Desroko said: I'm vacillating between the "civil war at the convention" and dropping out next week. Haold Ickes is definitely laying the groundwork or the former. |
Hillary Clinton's aides prepare to concede
Senior advisers to Senator Hillary Clinton have prepared the ground for her to abandon her 2008 presidential ambitions within days and not dispute the Democratic nomination all the way to the party convention in August.Although she won by a wide margin over Barack Obama in yesterday’s Puerto Rico primary - with 85 per cent of the vote in, she was leading by 36 percentage points - the former First Lady made no mention in her victory speech of taking her fight beyond this week.
Instead, she made a final appeal to some 178 uncommitted "super-delegates" - party officials whose convention votes are not tied to the primaries - that she would be the stronger general election candidate against John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
"The decision will fall on those leaders in our party empowered by the rules to vote in the Democratic convention," she said in San Juan. “I do not envy you the decision you must make." She needs some 90 per cent of the 178 to back her, which is almost certainly a vain hope.
I really hope this article is accurate, a convention fight would almost kill the Democratic chances in the fall.
