Hillary Clinton sent a memo to the superdelegates today explaining why she'd be the best candidate in the fall -- and she used Karl Rove's chart in her presentation. Seems like she's back to wanting the superdelegates to overturn the whole process and pick her as the nominee.
As you might expect, Clinton's letter doesn't really provide all the necessary info, so here's an addendum:
P.S. Hillary Clinton forget to mention a few things.Bottom line: She lost. She put up a good fight, but she lost. Now stop the foolishness, superdelegates. Vote for the nominee and let's get onto the real fight. The Clinton drama has gone on way too long already.
First, not all polls arrive at the same conclusion. She cherry-picked, believe it or not. For example, check out this chart from Jed. Or read this analysis from the Associated Press. And, she of all people should know that polls this far out don't indicate who will win in November. (Think back 6 - 8 months to the polls about who would be the Democratic nominee - hint, it wasn't Obama.)
Also, because Hillary lost the nomination awhile back, she hasn't been the recipient of much negative campaigning as Obama turned his attention to McCain. (There's plenty of material with which to work. Plenty.) Her campaign got pretty ugly at times. She attacked a fellow Democrat in ways that the GOP will attack him in the fall. However, no Democrat has attacked her the way the Republicans would, were she to become the nominee. Don't think the Republicans wouldn't attack her in ways the Democrats never did. And it wouldn't take long to drive her negatives even higher.
Oh, one other thing: Money. Clinton is in debt, big time. Over $20 million and counting. Sure, she and Bill can pour some more of their dough into the race, but do you really want to start with a nominee who is in the red? She's running her campaign on borrowed money right now. She's in worse shape financially than John McCain (and McCain isn't doing so hot). That's not a good place to start the general election.
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