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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton seek votes in Indiana, a state fraught with economic woes and unlikely relevance for the '08 race.
  • Will we ever get a political columnist at Salon who knows what she/he is talking about?

    In the first place, this isn’t a presidential campaign, like Kennedy/Nixon. It’s a primary. In the second place, Indianna really doesn’t matter. Even if Hillary wins this state and the next few, she won’t rack up as many delegate votes as she needs to beat Obama. In the third place, there is little if any tension about the elections from now on: Obama is more or less expected to win them all. By the way, Obama was pretty much expected, in contrast, to lose Pennsylvania. It would have been a sweet victory if it happened, but no one including Obama expected it to happen. The goal was merely to close the gap as much as possible.

    And, oh dear, was Obama’s “Love you back” businesslike? Like I’m taking Salon’s word for that.

    Like I take Salon’s word on anything political now.