The June Bug

By Eric Pfeiffer | May 27, 2008 2:58 PM | | Comments (0)

Liberal bloggers seem to have backed off their earlier complaints about Hillary Clinton citing the assassination of RFK as reasoning for her to stay in the Democratic primary. Instead, they are turning their attention to the second half of her argument, which asserted that her own husband, Bill Clinton, didn't wrap up his 1992 nomination until June of that year.

CQ Politics' own Taegan Goddard looks through Bill Clinton's autobiography and finds:

He writes: "On April 7, we also won in Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On April 9, Paul Tsongas announced that he would not reenter the race. The fight for the nomination was effectively over."

TPM's David Kurtz posts video of Bill Clinton making the same argument and says:

To anyone who remembers past Democratic nomination contests, it will be no surprise that there is nothing unprecedented about the pressure on Hillary to get out of the race.

Brendan Nyhan calls Clinton's argument "bogus."





Tags: Blogger Reporting, Hillary Clinton

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