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Hillary Clinton supporters still trying to derail Obama nomination - Vindy.com News - Elections - Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana, Ohio
Published:Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON — A massive e-mail and Internet campaign is under way aimed at derailing the nomination of Barack Obama and making Hillary Clinton the party’s standard bearer next week at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “It’s downright nasty,” said Memphis, Tenn., superdelegate and city council member Myron Lowery, who ...
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Clinton Supporters Launch New Email Campaign To Try And Derail Obama Nomination
The Moderate Voice — ... Scripps Howard News Service reports that there’s a new email campaign underway by some Hillary Clinton supporters to derail the nomination of Democratic Senator Barack Obama, who is now starting to seriously sag in various national polls: ...

PUMA alert: “Massive” e-mail campaign to derail Obama at convention
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Hillary Clinton’s supporters will not go quietly, it seems.  According to a Scripps-Howard report this morning, unnamed backers of Hillary have begun a “massive” e-mail campaign insisting that she won more votes and is the only electable candidate in 2008.  Perhaps, in consideration of the polling free-fall Barack Obama has experienced this summer, they may have a point (via ...

Hillaryism
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... At this point, you can be a feminist or you can be a PUMA, but chances are you’re not both.  And that comes not just because the tiny movement is full of outsize assholes, but because the movement long ago (roughly the day it was founded) ceased being about Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton is a stand-in for their own vindication, a campaign and a movement onto which they parasitically latched.  Nobody’s saying that they have to be happy with what happened in the primary; it’s not like losing a close race engenders the best feelings.  But ...

Clinton camp to create “whip team” for Dem convention
Sister Toldjah — Since the so-called “PUMA”’s have made it clear that they won’t go away quietly, Team Clinton has had to assemble a “whip” team in an effort to make sure the PUMA’s don’t embarass themselves … and La Clinton … during the DNC: In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton’s staff is creating a 40-member “whip team” at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don’t engage in ...

It's Still Obama VS. Hillary
blonde sagacity — ... Lowery said he does not believe Clinton herself is behind the effort, but that it’s “her supporters, acting on their own because they’re proud of what they have done for her.” (source) ...

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