And if you thought she was prepared to go quietly into that goodnight, then you are in for a rude awaking 🙂 Oh and about those Florida and Michigan delegates? Yeah, they’re trying to figure out a way to get them seated.

Clinton advisers acknowledged on Wednesday that the delegate arithmetic still has them at a disadvantage; Mr. Obama has 1,456.5 delegates to Mrs. Clinton’s 1,370, and the upcoming primaries will award delegates proportionally to both the winner and the loser. That will have the effect making each candidate inch toward the 2,025 delegates needed for the nomination.

Senator Clinton is also hoping to get an extra boost by adding delegates to her column from Michigan and Florida, and her advisers today have been discussing ways to deal with the conundrum in those states.
The Democratic Party stripped the two states of their delegates after they moved up their primaries to January, but Mrs. Clinton remained on the ballot in both _as Mr. Obama did in Florida. She won in both Florida and Michigan and is now seeking to have the delegates counted.
While Clinton advisers have publicly opposed talk of a “do-over” vote in either state, which is possible, some of her advisers said today that they would now be inclined to support such a vote. They believe her strength with Hispanics, women and Jewish voters in Florida, and with union workers and women in Michigan, would be enough to overtake Mr. Obama’s advantage with black and young voters in both states.
Mrs. Clinton and her top officials continue to oppose such a do-over. The alternative is waiting until July for the party to consider allowing Florida and Michigan delegates to count at the August convention. But the Clinton advisers who support a new vote said they expected conversations on the issue to intensify in her camp.

Oh and they’re planning to continue hitting Obama, blooding him for the general (you really didn’t think Clinton would do anything that was good for the party, did you?):

As for other upcoming primaries, Mark Penn, the campaign’s chief strategist, predicted today that “a fuller vetting process” of Mr. Obama by the media would heighten concerns among voters about Mr. Obama’s candidacy and “open up a number of other states” where Mrs. Clinton could compete intensively for delegates. He spoke on a conference call with reporters.
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Harold Ickes, a senior adviser to Senator Clinton, said on the conference call that the Clinton campaign’s chief objective was not to sully Mr. Obama’s image or record, but to cast a spotlight on lightly examined or unknown aspects of both.
“This is not a question of trying to damage somebody — this is a question of trying to fully understand all the particular aspects of each of the candidates,” Mr. Ickes said. “There’s not another shoe in her closet to drop. It is clear that too much is yet unknown about Senator Obama.

Of course they wouldn’t want to “sully” him, they just want to find something heinous enough that Democrats would be concerned about him for the general. Without sullying him so that he can go on to the general where the Republicans can use it against him. (via)

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