[Hardy-l] Hardy Speaks for Hillary?

[Betty Cortus]

I've excerpted the relevant article from  a very long one sent by  
Roy  (too long for our archives)  from the Campaign Standard Blog.
Betty

On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Rosemarie Morgan wrote:

> Where?  What?-   Do give us a citation, Roy
>
> Rosemarie
>> Ive just seen a campaign comment linking the lady to the poem
>> "The Rejected Member's Wife".
>> Hardly appropriate surely?
>
> ttum: New York, New York
> Today, 1:23 PM • By Joseph Bottu
>
> Everyone thinks Hillary Clinton is a lock in her home state of New  
> York. The RealClearPolitics average of polls has her up by more  
> than 17 percent. "Clinton will carry the state that has twice  
> elected her to the Senate," the reliable Michael Barone flatly  
> concludes. The only independent source I could find that likes  
> Obama's chances of victory is the Toronto Star, and it doesn't  
> argue well for the Canadians' sense of American politics or  
> geography that it goes on to add, "Obama was expected to return to  
> his hometown of Chicago after campaigning in neighbouring states of  
> New Jersey and Massachusetts yesterday."
>
> New York's 232 delegates are divided according to a formula that  
> only a professional mathematician could love: 151 delegates split  
> by the vote in the state's 29 congressional districts and the other  
> 81 distributed by the statewide popular vote. Still, the result is  
> that even if finishes shockingly poorly, Obama will pick up at  
> least a few New York delegates.
>
> Here in Manhattan, however, it just doesn't feel that he is going  
> to finish poorly. Clinton has the party apparatus on her side, and  
> its delivery of voters upstate will probably carry her home. But  
> I'm astonished by the level of Democratic excitement about Obama  
> all around the city - and by the general indifference to Clinton.  
> They don't hate her; they're just ignoring her. Obama signs and  
> bumperstickers are everywhere. Clinton signs are nowhere. In the  
> Starbucks and the supermarket - in the line at the polls near my  
> apartment, for that matter - talk about Obama is omnipresent, and  
> support for Clinton is a whisper.
>
> Back in 1972, the New Yorker's film critic Pauline Kael gave us a  
> classic line when, in the midst of one of the biggest landslides in  
> American electoral history, she said she didn't believe Nixon had  
> actually won, because she didn't know a single person who had voted  
> for him. The view from a New York window, in other words, isn't the  
> most reliable take on the world. I know all that, and yet, when I  
> glance out on Manhattan today, it sure looks as though an Obama  
> victory parade is coming down Broadway.
>
> Unlikely, I admit, but if it proves true, then what for Hillary?  
> Thomas Hardy may have the last word:
>
> We shall see her no more
> On the balcony,
> Smiling, while hurt, at the roar
> As of surging sea
> From the stormy sturdy band
> Who have doomed her lord's cause,
> Though she waves her little hand
> As it were applause.
>
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