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Dems Fear Clinton's 'Tonya Harding' Option
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 26, 2008 06:27pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ABC News article.
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"It is improbable but, yes, still mathematically possible that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton could win the Democratic presidential nomination.
What Democratic officials across the country fear is what Clinton will have to do to party rival Illinois Sen. Barack Obama -- who leads in pledged delegates and the popular vote -- to make that happen.
"I don't think she has no chance, but the route for her to victory is so bad for the Democratic Party -- it's to damage Obama so much that people feel he's not electable," said ABC News political contributor Matthew Dowd, a former adviser to President Bush, repeating the sentiments of many in the other party.
One Democratic Party official called Clinton's strategy "The Tonya Harding Option" -- the idea that Clinton's only path to the gold medal is to destroy her leading competitor.
After staying away from the controversy involving Obama's former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for almost two weeks, Clinton for the first time personally injected him into the race.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said of Wright during a news conference Tuesday in Greensburg, Pa. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend." |
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