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"The pundits and the naysayers proclaimed week after week that this race was over."
Yeah, and the pundits were right. What they said was that Obama had established such a lead that there was essentially no way Clinton could win. And they were right. In spite of signficant wins in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, Clinton couldn't catch Obama in the delegate count.
What she has done is spend a couple of months whipping up a sense of grievance among her supporters, dividing the party and diminishing its chances of victory in November. Jeffrey Toobin got it right on CNN. She is a deranged narcissist.
Make no mistake, there has been a snarky tenor of criticism about Clinton's determination to stay the course through all the primaries. Every other presidential dreamer in her position had taken the fight to the convention (Ronald Reagan in 1976, Ted Kennedy in 1980, Gary Hart in 1984), but she has been demonized for hanging on until the first Tuesday in June.
The party that took the nominating fight to its convention lost the Presidential election in every case. Great precedent there. And if not for the pressure from elsewhere in the party, Clinton certainly would have taken it all the way to the convention (we still don't know that she won't).
