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“Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton”
- “Analysis: Time, delegate math working against Clinton”, Associated Press
4/19/2008
“Who will tell her that it's over, that she cannot win the presidential nomination and that the sooner she leaves the race, the more it will improve the party's chances of defeating Sen. John McCain”
- “Who Will Tell Hillary?”, The Washington Post
2/25/2008
“No one can persuade Clinton to get out of the primary race. But by any metric imaginable, Obama has already won.”
- “A Silver Lining In the Blue Battle”, Newsweek
4/14/2008 issue
“I've given up on Clinton having the sense to gracefully bow out because she is neither graceful nor a bower outer although she will not have the pledged delegates, superdelegates and popular votes to wrest the nomination from Barack Obama.”
- “If Hillary Clinton Can't Run A Campaign Then How Can She Run A Country?”, The Moderate Voice
4/9/2008
“There is some point at which a candidate's chance of winning becomes so low that her right to continue is outweighed by the party's interest in preparing for the general election.”
- “No Really, You Should Go”, The New Republic
4/7/2008
“She is hanging on for grim death, despite calls from her own party to accept the inevitable and pull out of the race before the party convention in August.”
- “Give the Excuses a Break, Sister”, The Sydney Morning Herald
4/2/2008
“I've asked several prominent uncommitted superdelegates if there's any chance they would reverse the will of Democratic voters. They all say no. It would shatter young people and destroy the party.”
- “Hillary's New Math Problem”, Newsweek
3/5/2008
“In short, Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming.”
- “The Long Defeat”, NY Times
3/25/2008
“One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.”
- “Story behind the story: The Clinton myth”, Politico
3/21/2008
“Sen. Barack Obama is currently leading Sen. Hillary Clinton by a large margin that appears nearly impossible to beat, political experts say.”
- “Democrats Wary Of Intraparty Friction As Primaries Wrap”, CBS News
4/1/2008
“This is not just because she has failed to gain sufficient votes during the fiercely contested primaries and caucuses against the political phenomenon that is Barack Obama; it is also the gradual deterioration in the tone of her campaign, together with her increasingly desperate tactics, that suggests the time has now come for her to bow out while she still retains some shreds of integrity.”
- “Hillary Clinton Should Pull Out”, Daily Telegraph
1/4/2008
“Many of her supporters — and even some of her staffers — would be relieved (and even delighted) if she quit the race”
- “Painful Things Hillary Clinton Knows Or Should Know”, Time
3/21/2008
“The real message of Tuesdays primaries is not that Hillary won. It's that she didn't win by enough. The race is over. The results are already clear.”
- “It's Over”, The Hill
3/6/2008
“If Hillary Clinton wanted a graceful exit, she'd drop out now”
- “Hillary Should Get Out Now”, Newsweek
3/3/2008
“Big-money Democrats have been on the phone of late, and their conversations have been on how to get Clinton out of the race... [Some] were sincerely committed and now fear that the Clintons, she and he, will not know how to lose -- and will take the Democratic Party down with them.”
- “Hillary's Diminishing Returns”, The Washington Post
2/26/2008
“All this being a long way of saying, Hillary's path to the nomination is not narrow. Its barricaded.”
- “Clinton Facing Obstructed Path To The Nomination”, Slate
3/20/2008
“Clinton's path to the nomination, then, involves the following steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (meanwhile cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) and then win a contested convention by persuading party elites to override the results at the polls ... I don't think she'd be in a position to defeat Hitler's dog in November, let alone a popular war hero.”
- “Go Already!”, The New Republic
3/6/2008
“Many are the suggestions for how to make it stop, all of which boil down to making Hillary Clinton go away.”
- “The Uncle Al Election”, NY Times
3/27/2008
“I think we've reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don't. There's no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don't.”
- “Getting Mrs. Clinton”, The Wall Street Journal
3/28/2008
“I think the race has been determined, anyway, at this point. I think it's very difficult to imagine how anyone can believe that Barack Obama can't be the nominee of the party.”
- Sen. Chris Dodd in an interview with The National Journal
3/27/2008
“Weary and wary, Democrats are crying, ‘Stop the race, I want to get off’ and, more and more, this end game somehow always involves the former first lady dropping her pursuit of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.”
- “Clinton Still in the Race”, Toronto Star
3/21/2008
“Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama's side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up.”
- “New Backing for Obama As Party Seeks Unity”, Wall Street Journal
3/31/2008
“Is there a hint of desperation in the air? ... the road ahead appears daunting for Clinton. ”
- “Something In The Air?”, CBS News
3/31/2008
“How can we put this thing to bed? How can Clinton be stopped from putting the party through three more months of hell? Where are those vaunted party elders who can convince her that its sayonara time?”
- “Who'll Stop The Pain?”, New York Magazine
3/28/2008
This page is neither an attack against Hillary Clinton nor her supporters. I commend her supporters for their dedication to both Mrs. Clinton, personally, and all that she stands for. However, I would find myself remiss as an ardent member of the Democratic Party if I did not make the current situation clear, and call for Mrs. Clinton to concede.
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