Bill Pushes Back, Pours It On in WV

Apropos Jay's column this morning, ABC News reports Bill Clinton is imploring West Virginia voters to turn out on Tuesday:

"You have to realize that if you show up in enough numbers, and your neighbors in Kentucky do, and we have a good run through the rest of these states," asserted Clinton, "We gotta have your help and get the largest number of people to show up on election day. See all this stuff you are hearing about is an attempt to discourage you. That's what this is, pure and simple, hoping, well, Hillary can get eighty percent of the vote in West Virginia, and if only 100,000 people show up it is not enough. But if 600,000 people show up, and you say we want a president than you will see the earth move. You can do it."

Meanwhile another poll came out today showing Clinton with a 40+ lead in West Virginia.

Bill also also made his case to the supers and pushed back against the media stampede to declare Hillary dead and buried:

"She can win the popular vote, she is clearly the most electable according to all the national polls, and between now and August, the superdelegates are gonna have to think long and hard about how badly they want to win. If she is clearly the most electable with positions that people have finally focused on, the real difference I think is, I think she has got a real shot at this and let me just tell you something, all those folks who are telling you on television that she can't win - they weren't for her in the beginning," said Clinton.

The supers are moving against her slowly, but if Clinton hangs in there through next Tuesday (which she undoubtedly will) and West Virginia Democrats turn out in big numbers and put the hurt on Obama, it'll be interesting to see whether the pundits rethink the "it's over" theme or whether they simply dismiss her win as inconsequential and/or too little, too late.

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