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Originally Posted by frogstamper
This seems like a step into the twilight zone, this contest has very nearly split the Democratic party where at times its been brutal, to suggest this was all a set up to raise awareness of Obama is fantasy. Why on earth would she have put $5 million of her own money into her campaign, travelled tens of thousands of miles giving endless speeches if she had no desire to win the nomination? I've heard some crazy conspiracy theories in my time and this one is up there with the best of them.  |
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Originally Posted by Damien
The Democratic Party is not a unifed party in the sense we, in the uk, are used too. They have a wide range of different views and people in the party. If they were in the UK they would encompass Labour, Lib Dem, and even a large section of the Tory party.
They cannot and do not control Primary politics, although it is convincable that two candidates could conspire to help each others normination they would not be able to do what you are suggesting. All of them were in it to win it.
Clinton Vs Obama spilt the party and has damaged their chances of winning in November. Clintons speechs are being used in republican ads and a lot of her supporters are not backing Obama.
Unless the Democratic Party have the worse advisers in the history of american politics, I think it is unlikely they planned it  |
Well politically and yes even in the US this would hold, she became absolutely and very obviously the only unelectable candidate in the primarys' at the early on 'new hampshire' event so even though she won that one why carry on after wards with what would undoubtedly be a fruitless campaign.