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Those goalposts again...

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Wed May 07, 2008 at 02:55:20 PM PDT

So we all know that the thresshold for victory is 2,024 right? (Actually, it's now 2,024.5 with last week's LA-06 victory, but close enough.) The Clinton campaign, which has installed a little motor in their goalposts so they don't wear themselves out moving them, now claims:

[Yesterday] morning, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign made the case that the goal line needs to be moved further back and that the real "magic number" is 2,209. It also laid out a scenario that has the primary season ending on June 3 with neither major contender having reached the 2,209 mark. In that event, Clinton strategist Geoff Garin said, "the process" would continue -- a process that could see Clinton and Barack Obama taking their battle for the nomination to the floor of the party's late-August convention in Denver.

Man, Those people will do anything to win. Even if, as Mark Nickolas points out, it makes them hypocrites:

Howard Wolfson, January 26:

[WOLFSON MEMO] This remains a delegate fight, with 1,681 delegates at stake on February 5th, and 2,025 needed to secure the nomination -- and we are ahead in that fight.

Howard Wolfson, February 12:

"We don’t think either candidate will be able to get 2,025 delegates without the superdelegates," Wolfson said during Monday’s briefing, a prediction that may come down to whether Clinton can stem Obama’s February momentum by taking the majority of Texas's and Ohio’s 389 delegates on March 4 (Vermont and Rhode Island also hold contests that day).

Howard Wolfson, February 13:

"Superdelegates are supposed to vote their conscience. ... That's essentially what my friend David Axelrod said on the Today show. ... No one is going to win the nomination without them. Our goal is to get to 2025 delegates. " - Howard Wolfson

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And so on. Nickolas dug up nine similar quotes, and there's obviously a lot more of that lying around.

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