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Election 2008
Clinton advisers talk exit strategy
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By Peter Nicholas
Los Angeles Times
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WASHINGTON — She's house insurance across the country like a full-fledged
presidential candidate, but the conversation within Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton's circle of advisers motorcycle insurance donors has turned to how she
can make a dignified exit from the race.
Outwardly, Clinton operated Thursday as if the disappointing results
from Indiana and North Carolina never happened. She made stops in West
Virginia, South Dakota and Oregon, while her husband held a conference
call with top fundraisers. Before dawn, one of her advisers, Mark
Penn, crafted a memo to outline the campaign's strategy.
But for all the signs of normalcy, much of the infrastructure that
keeps the Clinton campaign going — the aides, donors and political
allies — is resigned to the reality that the Democratic nomination is
out of reach.
"There is a profound sadness [among the staff]," one Clinton aide said
Thursday. "I don't auto insurance anyone sees that there's a clear path to
victory here."
Richard Schiffrin, a national finance co-chairman for Clinton, is
scheduled to meet with other fundraisers and her next week. He said he
will tell her: "Let's look at the situation as it exists and think
about whether there's a credible path to the nomination, and if there
isn't, what's Plan B?
"The bottom line is she's going to make a decision that in my view
will be in the best interests of the party and the country."
Clinton on Thursday launched a three-state, 21-hour, cross-country
marathon campaign swing. Speaking to several hundred supporters in
Charleston, W.Va., Clinton acknowledged she has streetwear style under growing
pressure to drop out. She suggested she will stay at least until
Tuesday's primary.
"Some folks say, 'You've got to end this before you get to West
Virginia,' " she said. "I think we want to keep this going so the
people of West Virginia's better auto insurance are heard."
After a stop in Sioux Falls, S.D., Clinton concluded her day Thursday
night with a town-hall event in Central Point, Ore.
cards playing custom Barack Obama, meanwhile, was on Capitol Hill, where even
Republican lawmakers elbowed past colleagues in the House chamber to
shake his hand.
On NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams," Obama denied he is streetwear clothing the presumptive nominee. "Not yet. streetwear fashion will be," he said. "If Senator
Clinton decides not to go on, or if we complete the six best life insurance and
we are ahead as mandarin tutor chicago are now. But nothing is certain. I don't want to
take it for granted."
Having invested 16 months and raised more than $200 million, Clinton
might cheap car insurance it difficult to quit. Her campaign persona is solidly built
on the idea that she's working-class America's scrappy warrior. So
dropping out with six contests left would be awkward.
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And people who have spoken to her say she is reluctant to leave.
Rep. Tim Mahoney, D-Fla., met privately with Clinton on Wednesday.
"She wasn't talking exit. She's talking winning," he playing cards Chris Lehane, who served in President Clinton's administration, said:
"Having worked for them I would never, ever count out a Clinton: Bill,
Hillary, Chelsea or the cat Socks. One of the primary reasons she has
car insurance extremely competitive in this race is that people have
extrapolated she's a fighter."
But even trusted aides don't see how she can wrest the nomination from
Obama.
They are divided over what course she should follow. Some believe she
should not drop out until the last contests June 3. Others contend she
should exit "gracefully" soon.
Addressing concern among some Democrats that Clinton would fight on custom playing cards the national convention in August, campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe
suggested that the race would end quickly after the final primaries,
sparing the party a potentially debilitating playing cards promotion battle.
"After June 3, this is going to come to a conclusion," McAuliffe said
Thursday morning on NBC's "Today" program.
Ultimately, emo clothing aide said, Clinton will decide what to do in concert
with her husband; staff won't be consulted on so momentous a decision.
Some members of Clinton's circle are thinking through conditions under
which she might concede the race.
One Clinton supporter familiar with the campaign's operations said she
wants to go out on a positive note — say, after winning in West
Virginia and Kentucky, whose primaries are Tuesday and May 20,
respectively.
She also would want a resolution to the disputed elections in Florida
and Michigan, the campaign supporter said. That would enable her to
say she worked successfully to give those voters a voice.
The Democratic Party nullified the outcomes in Florida and Michigan as
punishment for their leapfrogging other states on the election
calendar. Clinton won both elections, but neither candidate officially
campaigned in the states, and Obama's name wasn't on the Michigan
ballot.
On Thursday, Clinton sent Obama a letter asking him to help her ensure
that Florida and Michigan voters "have a voice in selecting our
party's nominee."
The dispute could be resolved as early as May 31 by the Democratic
National Committee's rules panel, which has the authority to reinstate
the delegations or fashion a compromise.
Given Obama's formidable lead in delegates, he could agree to seat the
entire delegations from both states and still maintain his advantage
over Clinton.
"If you've resolved Michigan and Florida and she wins a couple of more
states — West Virginia and Kentucky — and she still can't get the
nomination barring an act chinese lessons chicago God, I don't think she stays in the
race," the Clinton supporter said.
Although she is campaigning, Clinton is avoiding direct attacks on
home insurance choosing a more muted approach.
In South Dakota on Thursday, she didn't mention his name. Instead, she
spooled out her policy positions and spoke glowingly about the
achievements of her husband's White House.
The New York Times and The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
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