Obama Campaign Points Finger at Rush
By Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Obama campaign believes in the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The Illinois senator's chief political adviser David Axelrod noted to reporters just now that Republican crossovers accounted for about 10 percent of the Indiana primary electorate, and that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had performed well with the group.
"There were elements of the Republican Party, including Rush Limbaugh, Sen. Clinton's new ally, who were urging people to cross over and vote for her," said Axelrod, referring to the Limbaugh-led "Operation Chaos," a bid to disrupt Obama's path to the nomination and prolong a divisive primary battle. "She obviously was somewhat a beneficiary of that."
Chimed in Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, "Apparently he's got more than just a crush on her." Clinton had joked on Sunday that Limbaugh "always had a crush on me."
(Continued here.)
(Sam Stein of the Huffington Post has some exit polling data which supports the above.)
Washington Post
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Obama campaign believes in the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The Illinois senator's chief political adviser David Axelrod noted to reporters just now that Republican crossovers accounted for about 10 percent of the Indiana primary electorate, and that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had performed well with the group.
"There were elements of the Republican Party, including Rush Limbaugh, Sen. Clinton's new ally, who were urging people to cross over and vote for her," said Axelrod, referring to the Limbaugh-led "Operation Chaos," a bid to disrupt Obama's path to the nomination and prolong a divisive primary battle. "She obviously was somewhat a beneficiary of that."
Chimed in Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, "Apparently he's got more than just a crush on her." Clinton had joked on Sunday that Limbaugh "always had a crush on me."
(Continued here.)
(Sam Stein of the Huffington Post has some exit polling data which supports the above.)
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Indiana
49 % - Obama
44 % - Clinton
7 % - Limbaugh
The Limbaugh effect also impacted Pennsylvania to some degree. Clinton won by 214,000 votes but 120,000 Republicans switched party affiliation in order to vote in the Democratic primary. Some may be legit, but not until November will the truth be known.
Texas primary results were similar to Indiana with Clinton winning by 100,000 votes but with 8% Republicans switching, this is well within the impact margin.
That's why Florida and Michigan should not have a re-vote.
It's time for the SuperDelagates to tell Clinton to stop. Her winning West Virginia and Kentucky will only imply that Obama is undesirable. The pressure needs to be applied that she will not have any support for party leadership position (Majority Leader) if she continues this race.
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