What is Hillary Clinton's End Game?

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Tonight on her Air America Radio program, Rachel Maddow--one of my favorite political pundits--expressed a grim and depressing theory. She predicts that the Democratic Party has ten days to win or lose the November election.

On May 31, the Democratic National Committee's rules committee meets to decide what to do about Michigan and Florida's delegates. According to Maddow, it is Hillary Clinton's intention to push any decision made to the convention in Denver late this summer. The theory goes that since Clinton cannot win by any other means, she will fight to be a presence at the convention, and that could be the place to make her stand.

The problem with that, according to Maddow, is that win or lose, Clinton's desire to hold the nomination until then will cause an irreparable wound to either candidate's chances against John McCain. And she's probably right.

I've been pondering for quite some time what in the world Clinton's end-game plan is. Each new primary is the "make or break" one, even though the math is completely against her. She apparently doesn't want a secondary role, or she would have taken one by now. So what else is there? I fear that Maddow might be right, and that is downright depressing. Democratic leaders need to heed Maddow's warning, and work to end this thing much sooner than the convention, because a John McCain win will devastate, and possibly ruin the Democratic Party.

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Clinton's Last Crusade: 'Count Our Votes'

Talk about throwing down the gauntlet.

If Hillary Clinton were running a general election campaign right now--and hoping to kill two key Florida constituencies with one stone--her lunchtime stop today in Boca Raton wouldn't be a bad place to start. For starters, there's the name of the "adult condominium community" where she chose to stump--Century Village. That gives you an idea of the average age of the audience. Secondly, there's the sign on the building next to the clubhouse that housed Clinton's event: Congregation Torah Ohr. It wasn't a Catholic cathedral. . .

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