Trinity...Trinity...sweetie. Your candidate and her husband, have been stressing how important fund raising is to her campaign. Do try to keep up.

Her campaign is in the red and that is of concern to Superdelegates.
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In your cluster of contradictory threads - the one theme you have been pushing is that Obama would not win in a general election. It is an assertion that the Clintons have made since he announced his exploratory committee last year in January. They said he would not be able to raise the funds for a presidential campaign. The Clinton machine meant cash for the democratic party - they can raise money.

It costs money to staff a campaign, run websites, and advertise, print, run tv ads and to fund travel for their candidate on the campaign trail.

Well Obama raised more money than Hillary last year in the first quarter. He raised more in January and set a record for fund raising in February ($55 million) more than any candidate for a primary - more than McCain has raised in entire his primary election.

With regard to the general election, Hillary and Bill are trying to convince Superdelegates that if she can win Pennsylvania, they can make the case that she is better suited to in a general elections (that she wins the big states and they count in a general election against McCain). Great but if her campaign is in the red, can she still fund raise for a general election? That is what superdelegates are looking at.

With regard to the superdelegtes, consider that Obama has won the support of 50 undecided superdelegates in the last 3 months, Hillary has netted only 9 more superdelegates in the same 3 month period. So Hillary is banking a lot on Pennsylvania, to convince superdelegates that she is better win for the democrats in a general election. She cannot run a campaign without funds for a general election, so they are looking at it.

Speaking of a general election:

The National polls STILL have McCain beating Hillary. The polls STILL have Obama beating McCain.

Obama has more state votes, more pledge delegate votes (overtook her lead in Texas yesterday in the latest round of Texas caucuses) and Obama has the popular vote.

All of those things superdelegates look at.

It matters, given that is the only route she has left to win the nomination and she's campaigning on it. So again - keep up, she's your candidate.

Your nuts if you think they are not looking at what candidate will draw in the most money for their party in a general election. It's their livelyhood at stake as well.

Live in the now. Accept that Obama will lock the nomination.

Maybe Hillary should run for governor of New York instead, when Patterson's term (covering Spitzer's is up).