Thursday, 02.21.08
Can Clinton come back?
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Barack Obama may well be ready to destroy the deepest, most fundamental law of the political universe: that somewhere, somehow, the Clintons will find a way to win.
How can Hillary Clinton possibly pull this off? The mathematics are there. If two-thirds of the remaining superdelegates -- what her campaign cleverly and class-consciously insists on calling the “automatic” delegates -- break her way, then she will win. The history is there, and this race has been full of black-swan moments.
The remaining 16 states and 816-odd pledged delegates will probably cut in her favor. Forget these static factors: for the first time, the elite political class is finally beginning to question -- or at least, to be aware of -- some of the irritating messianism of Barack Obama.
The Superdelegate SolutionThe Politico's Ben Smith thinks Clinton's best bet is making her case directly to superdelegates. |
Dividing the DemocratsFor Michael Gerson, the central problem with the Clinton campaign is that it needs to divide the Democrats to win. |
The Secret Clinton MemoBen Dueholm offers yet another strategy: change the goalposts. The Obama campaign is losing Wiccans in a big way. |
Incompetent Clinton?Ezra Klein argues that the failures of the Clinton campaign undermine the idea that she has the edge when it comes to experience and electoral discipline. |
