Hillary Turns Back the Clock
By Don | May 8, 2008
You know things are getting deperate in the Clinton camp when Hillary begins to compare the 2008 nomination battle with husband Bill's campaign in 1992. As ABC News' Jake Tapper points out there are several problems with the comparison.
Then- Gov. Bill Clinton literally did not secure enough delegates through the primary and caucus process until the California primary, June 2, 1992.
But he had sewn up the nomination long before then.
Months before then.
Moreover, the first real contest that year was on February 18, 1992. (No one competed in the Iowa caucuses since Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was a candidate that year) The first real contest this year, the Iowa caucus, was January 3, 2008. So you'd also expect that race to last later in the calendar -- it started more than a month and a half later.
I don't know if Hillary is doing this all from memory or if someone in her campaign put her up to it, but since it is a flawed comparison it doesn;t help her at all.
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