Clinton in Arlington, VA (with prediction poll)

I did not make it to the Clinton rally last night at Washington-Lee high school here in Northern Virginia but I did hear some of it on the radio.  Washington-Lee's gym seats 2200 - the gym was full and some were turned away.  

One of the cool things - per this article 1200 of the 2200 attendees were high-school students.  One thing that we need our candidate to do is reach out to the youth and engage.  I think Obama does it better but at least Hillary is doing it some.

If I didn't already know Hillary Clinton, didn't know about triangulation and how she's running to the center, I would have been pretty impressed with what she said.  Couple of brief highlights below, and then a quick prediction poll.

Most of the speech was Democratic red meat - how we need health care, how we need to spend on education, how we should not give tax cuts to companies who move jobs out of Virginia and over to China instead we should give tax cuts to companies who keep jobs here.  

She said we should not stay in Iraq for 100 years and that she would start bringing troops home within 60 days.  I felt it was a little misleading because she doesn't plan to pull everyone out, so pulling a single squad home would meet that campaign promise.

One thing that really bothered me though - she said that we needed to fight all the global scourges - HIV/AIDS, Hunger, Global Warming, all sorts of good stuff, but also we need to fight global terrorism.  What exactly is "global terrorism?"

I don't know - but again as a strong Obama supporter I will conclude by saying that if I didn't know who the speaker was, and just assumed it was a woman Democrat I would have found the speech largely positive and the crowd did seem to be into it.  So I don't think that Obama is the only one playing to large crowds across the country or energizing the youth.  If you are an Obama fan - do not be complacent.

Poll is below - I think that Clinton is winning the expectations game - she's got everyone saying that Obama is predicted to win by double-digits in all 7 of the races.  Obama isn't really fighting it.  I believe Clinton will win at least 2:  Maine and Virginia.  If she goes 2-5 I believe she has the strength to have won two that Obama "should have won" which will help build her up and slow down BHO.  If she goes 0-7 then maybe she'll stay in - maybe she'll drop out.  So how well do you think Clinton will do this week?