Is it time for Senator Clinton, for the sake of unity, to concede?

[StevieM]

65. I disagree with everything you have said.

1) Michigan and Florida set their own primary dates. And it is a bit silly to say that a state "broke party rules," especially when it was the Republicans who made the rules in Florida.

Hillary didn't campaign in Michigan. Obama encouraged his supporters to vote "uncommitted." Then when she won, but with 40% voting uncommitted, the media savaged her by saying "40% of the people would rather vote for NO ONE then to vote for Hillary Clinton!" In Florida, Senator Obama ran national commercials that aired in Florida, while no Clinton ads aired in that state. She didn't show up in Florida until election night, not stepping out of the plane until the polls had closed.

2) I am not sure why it would ever make sense for one candidate to recognize the other as the front runner, or why the leading campaign would expect that (or care). If you are talking about her staying in the race in spite of his pledged delegate lead, please remember that the last race that close was in 1984, and at that point it was unheard of to treat the PD category as the decider of the race. 2008 was the first time that PDs were treated as the equivalent of electoral votes.

3) I don't agree that she acted as if it were presumptuous for him to enter the race. I remember that she was so cognizant of his potential threat that she moved up her announcement date to January 2007. She had originally planned to do the "waiting for the front runner" thing that Al Gore and George W. Bush did in 2000, where they didn't officially enter the race until the late summer/early fall.