Negative Nancy

February 25th, 2008 at 06:29pm Andrea Zimmermann

Hillary Clinton is beginning to look desperate.If she isn’t desperate, she is doing a good job of fooling us.

Over the weekend, Clinton made a few campaign stops through Rhode Island and Ohio. Now I’m sure she said many newsworthy things during her time there, but her decision to “go negative” is what made it on the newscasts.

Here are the two clips.

After a rally at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio:

In Providence, R.I. (and try not to laugh at CNN’s new label for the presidential campaign — Ballot Bowl ‘08):

The line, “Go hard or go home,” comes to mind after watching the videos. In campaigns, the rule of thumb is if a candidate decides to go negative in a campaign, go very negative. Well, in one respect, she’s successfully become very negative.

Clinton has consistently used some of these tactics throughout the campaign, and Obama responded to this in the last debate.

But how much will this strategy help her as the Democratic nomination lurches toward Texas and Ohio? These states have a lot of delegates, and overwhelming wins would help Obama pull further away or allow Clinton gain some much needed ground. According to CNN, Obama leads the pledged delegate race 1,166 to Clinton’s 1,026.

Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont will hold the next primaries on March 4.

Entry Filed under: national politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama