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Despite growing calls for her to drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination, tonight Hillary Clinton showed no intention of doing so. After coasting to victory in West Virginia's primary, she told supporters she is "more determined than ever" to carry on. Clinton made an appeal for financial support to help her through "the home stretch" and urged the party to make sure delegates from Florida and Michigan are seated at the convention despite sanctions against those states.
I'm not saying Clinton should drop out of the race; in fact, it's great to see so many people in so many states get to make their voices heard before a nominee is picked. I do think, however, this marathon fight between two candidates is bruising them both. Something's got to give. The undecided superdelegates should declare their allegiance before everyone involved in the Democratic race for the nomination runs out of money and steam. It's time to start focusing on the general election.
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Senator Clinton should drop out of the race and use her talents and abilities to further the agenda of the Democratic party. She is a very smart woman. I really don’t see an Obama-Clinton ticket. I don’t think there is time for them to mend their fences before the election. As far as it seems, I do envision an Obama-Paterson ticket.
Donald – Upper West Side
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The battle for the Democratic race is now becoming overblown and beginning to be fill with each candidate egos. This race is becoming more about the candidates than about the people, or maybe its' us people who forgot we have the power in a democratic society.
Eric
Washington Heights
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I could carer less!
Chip Upper East Side
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THIS CAMPAIGNING FOR SO LONG IS RIDICULOUS. THE MONEY SPENT IS AN INSULT TO MY SENSES. THE COUNTRY IS TANKING AT AN ALARMING RATE. THE MIDDLE CLASS GOT WALLOPED AND NOT ONE CANDIDATE HAS A SOLUTION. THEY SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED.THE CRUCIAL TURNING POINT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED".
JOE
BAY TERRACE, STATEN ISLAND
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Hillary is the better choice. Obama is an empty suit, How many votes would he get if he were white? Obama has as much presidential timber as Vito Fossella
tom
Richmondtown
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As long as Senator Clinton takes West Virginia, she will still be in the race. She will show everyone the stamina needed to be a U.S. PRESIDENT. She stuck it out and when the going got tough, she kept forging ahead. We need that in a leader. She will show the Country that she has what it takes. I wish her well and I hope she does win.
Jessica
Arden Heights, Staten Island
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i personally think that hillary should get out of the race. i am a white, middle aged, jewish woman who dreads the thought of hillary being president.
she is totally untruthful and will say anything to get elected. she is bent on destroying the democratic party for her own gain. definitely not someone i want as my president
please, someone yank her out of the race before it is too late for us in the fall.
susan in brooklyn
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this is all about harold ickes and the clintonista plans: as a friend of hil/bill"s (not withstanding hillbilly as in Beverly) Mr ickes wants to sully Barack so he loses in the general to McClone and "Wicked" can rise out of the ashes in 2012. Shes a princess who has a Queenie complex and she cares not for the state of the union shes entitled to this. I think not and the country is better-off in the long run. The limbaugh party would love to run against the Chappaqua princess and they'll be eaten alive by Obama.
John
Kissena Park
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A very big win is expected and it will be a "feel good" night for Sen. Clinton. It is a state largely tailored made for Clinton...white working class voters...a large percentage of whom still believe Sen. Obama is a Muslim and/or he does not share their values, and who believe in "guilt by association" when it comes to Rev. Wright.
Still, the numbers in all categories are in Sen. Obama's favor and slowly but surely Clinton and her followers have to come to that realization. Even though I believe Sen. Clinton should continue to run in all the primaries, I do not wish Sen. Obama to be "diminished" for the general election.
Maddalena
Midtown West, Manhattan
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To be honest, I hope she cleans house. Moving on, tonight's win should count in a very large way for Hillary Clinton. It is not over until it is over. The DNC needs to wake up and realize it that it needs the American people in order to exist. The lack of respect that they have shown Senator Clinton and her supporters, i.e., women has been repulsive and I for one if Senator Clinton is not given the nomination will make my voice heard.
Denise
Flatbush, Brooklyn
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It is over for Senator Clinton. The few remaining weeks are about making sure that she has a place as a power broker in the Convention and Party. The best case scenario for her at this point would be, an Obama-Clinton ticket. Such a ticket would create serious problems for the Republican party.
Wladimir T.
Brooklyn, NY
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Senator Hillary Clinton wins West Virginia. Hillary is like Rocky and will not quit. She will not give up and for that I applaud her courage aganist all odds. Now for that I say," You go girl."
Eva B.
Bellerose, N.Y.
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A temporary win for "old" America on the way to change with obama president for the young generations
Sandro P.
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Hillary's victory in West Virginia is significant because, firstly, it's a win, and secondly because the win is by a very wide margin. This victory comes at a critical time when she's being called to drop out, but Americans are not ready to let her go just yet and tonight's victory - her very large win over the front runner who could not close the gap in West Virginia - proves Mr. Obama still doesn't have the nomination in the bag.
David M.
West Village, Manhattan
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EVERY VOTE COUNTS! WHERE IT PUTS HER IN THE RACE IS A DIFFERENT STORY. I WANT HISTORY TO CHANGE, HER AS A WOMEN OR OBAMA AS A BLACK MAN!!!!
"Nefertiti"
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Tonight's win was an important one for Hillary, but did Senator Clinton have to gloat about it so much in her victory speech? The self-important grandstanding that follows all of her primary victories only serves to make Obama look classier and classier.
Andrew
East Village, Manhattan
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If you read between the lines as to what Hillary is saying, she is conceding that she cannot win but chooses to stay in the running until June. She's gracefully saying that she is getting out on her own terms, and will do all she can for the nominee "Obama" to win the election. She is really proving to be a disgrace to American politics.
Liz
Rosedale
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I just want to say people need to stop lying by saying that Hillary has the experience she was never president before while Bill was president what did she do besides look dumb while bill was having affairs with the help?
WV does not mean anything we need change we can beleive in Obama for president
BIG JOON
1.O.A.K.
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I think Hillary's win is too little too late. Obama has more popular votes, won more states and has more pledged delegates. The American people have spoken. It is time for the democratic party to select Obama as the nominee and prepare to take on the republicans. Further delay can only hurt the party in the long run.
Paul E.
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The word "experience" has been used a lot tonight to describe why Hillary Clinton would make a good president. As a former first lady and now NY Senator, she may have the expertise to lead our nation, but if we look at history, greatness has been achieved by the novice, the inexperienced who were tired of the same old rhetoric and demanded change for the better: Harriet Tubman, Dr. King, Rosa Parks and now Barack Obama. I believe that he is not only the better candidate, but a new voice that is needed for this country!!
Sharon E.
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I agree with Big Joon-
We need a change in the White House
Hilary didn't even notice Bill was sleeping with the help how is she going to be informed with political issues if she couldn't even control her man. OBAMA 4 President!!!!!!!!!!!!
EG
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I hope that Hillary does win because she is the right person for the job, remember that her husband was President and I am sure she will be a better president than her husband. I truly hope hillary wins!!!! I think also because she is a WOMAN that is why people also don't like her, they think that a MAN is the only person that can be president and do a good job. It is truly a sad world we live in if obama wins which I really hope and wish that he does not!!!
Regards,
Sergio
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Since when is being first lady count as experience, she has 2 years on Obama as a senator, and she voted yes for the Iraq war this makes her part of the problem not the answer. If being first lady counts so much as experience maybe next election Laura Bush and Nancy Reagan should run on a ticket in 2012.
Bert from Queens
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It is ironic that a female, NYC-bred, progressive, pro-gay, minority, women, children, and immigrants should be in the absurd position of having to defend Reagan's experience because the host handled a call so incompetently. How does he let complete falsehood slide? He didn't respond to caller Olivia's mistaken assertion that Reagan had no experience (like Obama) since he was just an actor, but yet Reagan became President. Reagan was the chief executive of the immense state of California for two terms before becoming President.
How too does the Host not even challenge the divisive and ignorant assertion by Olivia that "the kind of people that support Clinton" are not positive, upstanding, tolerant people, as she asserted. Why did the Host not say, "If you state you're concerned about bigotry, how do you rationalize making a blanket statement about an entire group of people?
He had a Hillary supporter give her opinion, then he said, "Interest of balance" that he'd read an Obama email. Then he proceeded to spotlight FOUR consecutive opinions taking up about five minutes of air-time -- all in support of Obama before switching back to one Clinton supporter.
Should we ask Obama viewers if they're comfortable or need a pillow? That's nearly where it went tonight.
Jill
Greenwich Village
Editor's note: Schiumo did not hear the Reagan comment. During a live newscast, an anchor typically hears all kinds of things in his or her ear: producers, technical directors, etc. When anyone presses the button to talk in Schiumo’s ear, he is unable to hear the caller. I assure you that Schiumo always corrects viewers’ errors when he hears them.
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