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Following on from ten straight victories, the Obama camp has grown in confidence and suggested Hillary Clinton should concede and accept defeat.

Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe played down Clinton's chances of securing the Democratic nomination.

"This is a wide, wide lead right now," Plouffe told reporters. "The Clinton campaign keeps saying the race is essentially tied. That's just lunacy."

Clinton has responded to Obama's surge by taking a "harder edge" on big issues like the economy, and talking tough.

"It is time to get real, to get real about how we actually win this election and get real about the challenges facing America," Clinton said in a speech in New York. "I am not running for president to put Band-Aids on our problems. I am running to solve them."
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10 responses // Obama camp urges Clinton to concede

  • I would just like to thank Barack Obama for destroying any hopes of a Clinton dynasty and officially ending the Clinton-Era. He is the MAN!!!!!! I usually vote G.O.P.. I am thinking of voting for Obama. I just have an impossible time reconciling my beliefs and views with his political platform.
    mjsmith11
  • http://www.youtube.com/v/PGeu_4Ekx-o&rel=1&border=0
    These are the type of people that follow Obama. People who have hope and dreams and believe he can achieve them - yet they don’t even know what he has done for this country. It’s a shame that even a political figure doesn’t know what Obama has accomplished.
    Hillary on the other hand has supporters who understand her achievments and see her dedication to this nation. There is no reason for Mrs. Clinton to step down from the race. She is not going to back out and let a guy who uses nothing but inspriational words take her White House. She shouldn't throw in the towel. She should wait and see who the people of the US want in office.
    We need someone who is going to fix our problems and not just tell us how they plan to fix them.
    JesseSanchez
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23243479/
    MSNBC has placed a poll on whether people think Hillary (and Mike Huckabee) should throw in the towel. Vote and see the results...
    jmathew
  • to jesse, i don't think many people can even point out what hillary accomplishments have been. The vast majority would say she was the first lady maybe they'd mention she was a u.s. senator. As far as first lady goes, most people would agree that executive experience through osmosis is ludicrious, and even ted kennedy (one of the oldest senators to boot) said that the amount of time spent in the u.s. senate doesn't really matter. Which puts Hillary and Obama on a pretty level playing field. Except that Hillary has a really bad campaign team, which is why I think she's losing.
    ollin
  • Ollin is right. Senator Clinton doesnt have that much more experience than obama just because of "osmosis". besides Hillary, when she debates, seems like she is trying to play a political board game like a debate team wether its right or not and whos only goal is to shoot down her opponent.
    vnprado
  • Obama seems to take the low blow during debates and not to say that he uses the teleprompter more than she does.... Actually I was just sitting here reviewing some videos at work and I've never seen a teleprompter when she speaks, but he does.... I'm not saying she doesn't but he deff makes a habit of it. I like a person who speaks from within and doesn't have writers doing their thinking.... At any rate... Politics are not my thing, but a politician can be.
    JesseSanchez
  • How democratic... I am no fan of Hillary Clinton, but there are what, still 16 primaries left to go? He doesn't have the amount necessary to declare victory yet and not all Americans have voted. Is he afraid of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas? Are they open primaries? If not no wonder he is wary as it seems he does better in states where Republicans can cross over to get revenge on Clinton by voting for him. If he believes in Democracy why would he want to keep Democrats from voting? In my state I usually never got to have my vote in a primary count because it wasn't until June. Why even set these primaries up the way they are then if you are going to deny people their right to vote? I think Hillary Clinton should get out when she feels it is necesary, unless something turns around. It is simply undemocratic to ask anyone to leave a race that is not over yet. How about letting the PEOPLE decide for once? And if not change the damn primary system to allow all Americans to vote. It shouldn't be about their egos.
    JanforGore
  • What about Michigan and Florida delegates? Lets think about them. Voters came out in Record numbers in both states and their voices should be heard. Its not Hillary's fault that she kept her name on the Michigan ballet Obama could have in hopes of seating the delegates in the future. She won, fair and sqaure in florida by a large margin and people from Florida want their voted counted.
    Mikeydrankthesea
  • Yup, uses a teleprompter: DEFinitely a disqualification for president. That and all the other unsupported, unsupportable generalizations. Golly, how could I have been so deceived?

    Look, there are good reasons for opposing either Clinton or Obama. Showing one example of an ill-prepared supporter of one candidate, and generalizing that it's that kind of person that supports Obama or Clinton, is not one of those good reasons. What, you think there are none of "that type of people" in your candidate's corner? Of course. Your candidate only "has supporters who understand her achievments [sic] and see her dedication to this nation", while the other guy's supporters are all weenies. Grow up. Or at least think for five full minutes before writing.

    No, Hillary ought not to concede yet. It's still close enough that she could pull it out, especially with her connections in the party. Given that she has drawn her line in the sand in Texas and Ohio, she has set up a situation where, if she fails to win both states, calls for her concession will have more weight on March 5th. Let it play out. Let her go after Obama more forcefully, and temper his steel before he has to face the Republican machine. If he wins the nomination, he'll have benefited from the practice. Let's hope Thursday's debate does not devolve into such depths of childish peevishness that they need to bring in Edwards to play parent again.
    phidippides
  • Hillary's dismissal of her "likeability" seems almost delusional -- because in order to pass LEGISLATION she is going to have to get Republicans (who hate her) to go along with her. Right now, for better or worse, the reality is that many, many Republicans in the Congress will more readily go along with Obama (who doesn't have any Clinton bagage) and make concessions/compromises with Obama then they would Hillary. It's just reality. But what's odd is that Hillary just doesn't care. She wants to be President and who cares about passing legislation? These Republican Senator, for better or worse, are elected by a base that just hates Hillary -- and in order to win re-election they can't piss off their base. And what would piss off their base? Being best friends with Hillary and green lighting her legislation and ideas. Yeah, it sucks. But when is Hillary going to acknowledge the reality of the situation? She seems to be demonstrating that she is willing to create 4 solid years of gridlock and non-movement on any issue in Congress in order to be President. What does that say?
    crob80227

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