It's Potomac / Chesapeake primary day! Voters in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. are doing the voting thing, and with Barack Obama having swept the last five contests (including Maine on Sunday,) the Hillary crowd is in "lowered expectations mode" for today. They're telling nervous donors and superdelegates, just hang in there until Texas, Ohio and PA: that's when we're really gonna start winning!
Well ...
By then (then being March 4th,) Barack Obama will have had probably seven straight wins, a full month to himself, all the ink, and will probably have raised more money. The Clinton strategy, unfortunately, relies on the unrealistic hope that people in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas don't watch TV, read newspapers or use the Internet... (sounds a little bit like Rudy Giuliani's firewall strategy ... and with the "tested, ready, now" message to boot... not a good sign for Camp Clinton.) Of course, there are hurdles for Barack to leap, too, as this article points out, and one of them, sadly, begins with an "r"... Labels: 2008 election, Barack Obama, democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton, politics and elections, presidential candidates |
