Letters to the Editor
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It's going to come down to money right now
With very few primaries left to go and with the statistical odds stacked against her (Clinton needs to win something like nearly 70% of the vote in remaining states), the amount of cash that Hillary has left in her war chest is going to come under intense scrutiny.
Hillary, already behind on funds, is sure not to receive a fund raising boost based on her performance today, meaning that she is very likely going to be unable to compete effectively in the remaining contests. Certainly, the uncommitted super delegates that remain are aware of this and unlikely to "commit" for her at this stage, which means she has no chance of getting a boost from them to revive her campaign (and raise more funds!).
Likely, what we will see if Sen. Clinton remains in the race is her campaign bleeding to death on its way to the party convention.
Intellectually I understand why Sen. Clinton hung on until today, even if I don't agree with it. She saw that there was a single opportunity here for her to change the momentum in her favor by massively winning Indiana and barely losing North Carolina. Unfortunately for her the exact opposite has happened.
I honestly cannot see her campaign recovering from this. I'm not about to call it "over" (Sen. Clinton has hung on much longer than I think a rational person would have, so she very may well continue to push - who knows?) but I will say that she can't win the nomination.
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Lets hope it's over because the hacking at each is bad
I will happily vote for either senator, happily.
And while I appreciate and understand Sen. Clinton's fighting spirit, I get a sense of entitlement despite her being a historic candidate. Her campaign hasn't portrayed her well although the right wing media gets a major assist.
Time and a really, really weak, pro-war GOP will probably heal all Dem wounds, still I really, really hope the Florida and Michigan situation is not brought to a head...it has no-win powder keg written all over it.
If it does come down to a powder keg, grace, humility and approachability will/should win out and thus I believe Barrack Obama gets the nomination, at least I hope so.
If Sen. Clinton prevails in a fist fight, with some dirty tricks, I'm not sure she can beat McCain, even with the GOP war thing going on. The baggage and right wing pile on might be too great.
Well, at least it will be interesting, and historic.
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Obama, where art thou?
Clinton is better out of the race. What an incredibly ugly electoral system we have in America. Your headline says it all: it's never enough to just win, first you have to bury your opponent, then pour gasoline on her, and then light a match. Politics is a variant form of indecent exposure: You sell your soul for votes to a bunch of backwater yokels in the primary states, then you gather dirt on your opponents while making campaign promises you know you can't keep, and then you denounce a friend of long-standing in a public forum, just to show the punters you'd bleed for them if necessary. It's ugly, and I think Hillary should get out while she still has a character left to salvage. It's too late for the other guy.
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Curious to see what happens tomorrow
She cancelled all of her events. Word is starting to leak out that he might do the same.
If these superdelegates don't start coming around to Obama now I'm going to wonder.
Anyway going to bed, but if it isn't clear he's won it by now I'm going to have some real questions.
Hopefully it's just a waiting game as everyone says. At some point we have to face the reality of who's won and who's lost.
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August
Pundits have been straining to push Senator Clinton out the door for months. And yet she continues to disappoint them.
I see her standing strong until August. Any student of history knows strange things happen at party conventions and there are months and months left in this process. Things are too close to justify Senator Clinton meekly rolling over now no matter how many talking heads demand it.
And oblivion? I doubt Senator Clinton will ever be "forgotten or unknown."
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Obama & HIllary on the Same Ticket?
Politically, it makes sense; practically speaking, it won't work.
Obama, if he were to finally secure the nomination and win the presidency, would have to be constantly looking over his shoulder to see what Bill was up to [and that's if he were even able to neutralise Hillary in that VP straitjacket J. Nance Garner so piquantly reviled.
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@yojimbo
"...And while I appreciate and understand Sen. Clinton's fighting spirit, I get a sense of entitlement despite her being a historic candidate. Her campaign hasn't portrayed her well although the right wing media gets a major assist...."
The irony of it all is that if she had listened to the better angels of her nature, instead of Lil Red Hot perched on her other shoulder and gone with Geoff Garin, to begin with, instead of the incredibly mean-spirited arrogant campaign trope manufactured by Mark Penn, she probably would have won despite what I consider to be one huge stinking albatross around her campaign's neck: her war authorisation vote.
Just think: if she gone with the idealistic nature shown off at Wellesley's commencement all those years ago, plus used her commonsense in regarding George Bush, she would have voted against the War Authorisation act, like 23 of her senate colleages and probably cake-walked to the nomination, "fierce urgency of now," or no.
If she had ignored the snuffling of the Ray Harding like Mark Penn, even having voted for the war, she may have beaten Obama. Can anyone deny that the candidate who emerged after Garin took over pushed Barack to the Wall and was the more energised--and energising--candidate?
Alas, she didn't and has all but strangled her candidacy. Death by triangulation.
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
Stick a fork in her butt; she's done.
I can only think of one person who has squandered more political capital than RHC has in the last four years. If she doesn't want to blow it all, she should bow out after the Oregon and Kentucky primaries, as suggested by another poster, AND most certainly drop any notion of tooling for a convention pusch by the rules committee (which she apparently controls.
Given her gutter campaign, divisive rhetoric, pandering and mendaciousness, no way should she be offered the VP slot or AG position. Some other cabinet position, maybe, though I doubt she would give up her senate seat for anything less (not that she should), and it's stupid to pull Democrats out of the senate to fill administration positions.