Mrs. Clinton claims to be the only candidate to win "big" states, particularly big "blue" states. The principal reason she has been able to do so has been her ability to call in old favors from past political cronies. It has NOT been her special magic or appeal to voters in these jurisdictions.
The story is an old one that dates back to the elder Mayor Daley's regime in Chicago and Boss Tweed before that.
She won Ohio with the aid of the political patronage machine of Gov Ted Strickland with concentrated support from US Rep Stephanie Tubbs Jones' minyans in the Cleveland area.
She won Pennsylvania with the aid of Gov Ed Rendell's powerful patronage machine with a local boost from Mayor Nutter to keep the lid on a Philadelphia blow-out.
She had the New York machines locked up.
Though neither "blue" nor a "big" state, she had the machinery of Sen and former Gov Evan Bayh in Indiana against which the Obama campaign pushed hard and almost won. And the machine of lame duck Gov Easley just couldn't deliver aganst the energetic forces for change.
We must keep the pressure on the opponent. She wants to win - desperately. Personally she has made many sacrifices over many years. But, she has to be DEFEATED - again and again. Yes, we can maintain the high road, but she must be defeated - that is what she understands.
Fired UP!
Let's make some calls to Kentucky, West Virginia, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota and Puerto Rico!
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