Toothache in the HEart of HillaryLand

After several substantial losses in a row, the Clinton campaign is scrambling.  After Virginia, the campaign is frantically trying to hold on to its coalition. In Virginia, Obama won three stronghold groups of Clinton; women, catholics, and Latinos.  In light of this new development, the Clinton campaign has made some strategy changes.  Campaign Clinton has now directed their focus towards two groups; women and working class whites.  It also appears that the campaign has decided to go negative…again.  However, this time it looks as if they will do it carefully.  Clinton is already running a negative ad in Wisconsin criticizing Obama for his decision not to debate in Wisconsin.   Not to mention, the very public and concerted effort by campaign Clinton to try and seat Florida and Michigan, even though only Clinton’s name appeared on the ballot in Michigan.  My question is…how does that pass the fairness test?   Now, lets talk about campaign financing.  The Clintons raised 140 million dollars that they spent by Super Tuesday.  How do you spend 140 million dollars in a month and a half?  The fact that the campaign was unable to manage and properly allocate resources does not bode well for the Clinton Economic Plan.  Apparently, the campaign spent the bulk of the 140 million before Super Tuesday not expecting the Obama campaign to last past that point.  One thing that may have contributed to the lack of funds is Clintons’ hiring of two jets, one for her, and one for the press.  It is only recently that Clinton started flying on the press plane.  But according to Bill Clinton, they were operating on a “shoestring.”  The Clintons far out raised Obama in 2007, yet the Obama campaign does not appear to be having such struggles.  Next for Clinton, all eyes are on Texas and Ohio.  The campaign has adopted the Giulianni strategy and is putting all their chips in a big Texas basket.  On Tuesday, when Clinton arrived in Texas and spoke to a very large crowd, the Senator told the crowd “we are family…starting right now.”  So was she a mere acquaintance prior to that?  And what about March 5th, the day after the Texas primary, does the relationship revert back to acquantance status?  James Carvill, one of Clinton’s biggest supporters,  said very bluntly last night that if Clinton does not win Texas and Ohio, it’s over.  Latest polls show Clinton ahead in Ohio and Texas.  By the way, there are two additional primaries before Ohio and Texas.  Wisconsin and Hawaii??  These primaries take place on February 19th.

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