Mayhap?
Posted at 1:26am on Feb. 14, 2008 Okay, I Understand That There Is Obamamania . . .
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
But that's no excuse for this. It is entirely possible for Hillary Clinton to catch Obama and claiming that Clinton is mathematically eliminated only serves to reduce the Obama campaign's credibility--in addition to giving Hillary Clinton a rhetorical cudgel. The Obama campaign would have done better to say that the momentum they have may make it difficult for Clinton to catch up but the only campaign that can say that their opponent is mathematically eliminated is John McCain's. As Jay Cost points out much of the reason for Obama's recent successes stems from the fact that those recent successes have been in contests where the demographics favored Obama's campaign. While this may eventually be seen as having created irresistible momentum for Obama, it may also be that once the contests move to states where the demographics favor Hillary Clinton--in, say, Ohio and Texas--her campaign will be able to recover.
Let's therefore not count Hillary Clinton out just yet. To say the least, she still has the capability to make her presence felt in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
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