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Why Hillary's Supporters Won't Give Up

By Jeralyn

Thanks to a TL reader who left this in the comments on the Mother's Day Thread: Ellen Malcolm, founder of Emily's List, has an op-ed in Saturday's Washington Post, Quitters Never Win. A snippet:

It's not surprising that low-income working women are the cornerstone of Hillary's success. Many of these women live on the edge of disaster. A pink slip, a family member's illness, a parent who can no longer live alone, a car that won't start or a mortgage rate that goes up -- all are threats that could devastate the family. And yet these women do what women have done for ages. They put on a confident face, feed their children breakfast and get them off to school. They don't quit. They suck it up and fight back against whatever life throws their way....

....Hillary Clinton certainly has the right to compete till the end. But I believe Hillary also has a responsibility to play the game to its conclusion. For the women of my generation who learned to find and channel their competitiveness, for the working women who never falter in the face of pressure, for the younger women who still believe women can do anything, Hillary is a champion. She's shown us over and over that winners never quit and that quitters never win.

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We don't have a nominee yet. The media can crown Obama with the title, presumptively or not, but it's not over until one candidate drops out or the vote is taken at the convention in August. With two candidates remaining in the race, the superdelegates can change their mind right up until the August vote. It may not come to that, but so long as we have two candidates, it's a possibility.

For those of you in West Virginia and who know people in West Virginia, turnout matters. The higher the turnout, the greater the message that Democrats are not ready for this race to end.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 11, 2008 (boomark / email).