If the situations were reversed, when would Obama have dropped out?
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« on: May 31, 2008, 06:47:44 PM »
Assume Hillary and Obama's margins are flipped in every primary.  When do you think Obama drops out?  Before OH/TX?  Is he still fighting now, waiting till Tuesday to drop out?  Does he take it to Denver?

If Obama wins Florida and Michigan (MI due to Hillary's name not on the ballot), does he try to get them seated?
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 06:55:53 PM »
Would've dropped out sometime in March.
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 07:23:36 PM »
If the results had reversed, wouldn't Obama have the lead after Super Tuesday and have won California, Arkansas and New York? That would've killed Clinton.
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 07:37:19 PM »
No.  He'd still be there.
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2008, 07:42:04 PM »
Quote from: Casual Fraction™ on May 31, 2008, 07:23:36 PM
If the results had reversed, wouldn't Obama have the lead after Super Tuesday and have won California, Arkansas and New York? That would've killed Clinton.

Obama had the lead in pledged delegates after Super Tuesday, so it depends on whether the superdelegates are flipped as well. And Clinton would have won Illinois plus black-heavy states like SC and GA which you can argue would have killed Obama.
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2008, 07:48:42 PM »
Quote from: Casual Fraction™ on May 31, 2008, 07:23:36 PM
If the results had reversed, wouldn't Obama have the lead after Super Tuesday and have won California, Arkansas and New York? That would've killed Clinton.

Yeah but Clinton would have won Illinois and had the 12 state win streak.
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2008, 08:10:16 PM »
Obama would still be in the race.
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2008, 08:54:34 PM »
Quote from: TheresNoMoney on May 31, 2008, 06:55:53 PM
Would've dropped out sometime in March.

jeez.  i would hope not.

if he doesnt have any more backbone than that, he really should be back in the illinois senate deciding which thursday in april should be illinois donut retailer appreciation day.
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2008, 10:19:02 PM »
June 4, after Montana and South Dakota.
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« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2008, 10:18:06 PM »
In that case, YES he'd be in this race still as Obama and his supporters are just as hopelessly devouted to all this as Hillary's.
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« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2008, 10:19:32 PM »
After Wisconsin
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« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2008, 10:21:52 PM »

^^^^^
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« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2008, 10:31:27 PM »
Since people expected Hillary to win, if he was trailing her, he'd have dropped out earlier. Probably after she won 12 straight states in February.
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« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2008, 01:44:12 PM »
after (or during) the 12-state losing streak in February/March.  it's amazing that the American media allowed Clinton to keep an aura of competitiveness through such an utter thrashing.
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« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2008, 02:15:21 PM »
He'd probably take it right to the convention claiming to be the "voice of the people".
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