CLINTON CAN'T EXPLAIN OBAMA'S WINS... The Clinton campaign has been busy inventing
new reasons for why Barack Obama keeps winning state after state. "One of the hilarious
side-effects of every Obama victory is the spin from Clinton quarters and its surrogates
and supporters explaining why said victories 'don't matter,'" Markos Moulitsas blogged this
week.
Either the state has a caucus, or too many black people, or too many affluent people, or
too many independent voters, or too many red staters. If only the Clintons had the perfect
electoral map.
If only.
If only the Clintons had a coherent explanation for why Obama has so thoroughly out-
organized and out-hussled them across the country in February. After all, there was no
reason why Hillary Clinton, after spending eight years in the White House and amassing a
hefty war chest of money and incumbency in the Senate, couldn't of won caucus states, or
red states, or states with large African-American communities. The front-runner is
supposed to win these places. If Obama had lost eight states in a row, his candidacy
would most certainly of been toast.
Obama has opened up a small lead in pledged delegates, 1,078 to 969 according to
MSNBC, but the race is still miraculously close. Clinton may very well win Ohio and Texas
and capture the nomination as the third reincarnation of the Comeback Kid.
But step back for a minute. How did Clinton even get to the point where March 4 was do
or die? Exactly what happened to all those states in between? Did the tide turn when
Missouri flipped into Obama's column in the wee hours of Super Tuesday? After a draw
was declared that Wednesday, her campaign has been mired in a seemingly endless
draught.
The situation is more dire for Clinton than her supporters would have one believe. Her
candidacy is on the verge of impending collapse. It goes beyond replacing one or two
campaign managers. Obama is consolidating his base and bringing in new voters, while
Clinton is hanging on by a mere thread.
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