March 04, 2008
Tenacious C
Obama and Clinton appeared on the “Evening News” tonight in separate interviews.
Obama, asked if he will suggest that HRC to get out of the race if it’s “mathematically impossible” for her to catch up in delegates: “No. I mean, obviously this is going to be Sen. Clinton’s decision to make. She is a tough competition. She has been tenacious and is continuing to raise boat loads of money, and I’m happy to continue to compete state by state until we get to the convention.”
Clinton, asked how she will justify staying in the race with the delegate count against her: “I’m not going to think about what comes after until after today. I feel good about today. I think we’re going to have some very positive outcomes -- and remember this is a long journey. My husband didn’t get the nomination until June of 1992.”
Asked if she would support a revote in FL and MI: “We’ll think about different scenarios after tonight.”
More Clinton: “The goal is to get 2020 delegates, and we’re on track to being able to do that -- we’ll know more after we see the results tonight.”
Clinton, on super delegates: “Well, super delegates have a purpose in the process to exercise independent judgement on who would be the best president and who they believe would have the best chance of wining. If you look at the states that I’ve won … with all due respect to the number of states that Obama has won … these are not likely to be states that a Democrat would win unless there’s a tidal wave in our favor” (CBS, 3/4).
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