Does the primary campaign end Tuesday?

The Associated Press

Hillary Clinton may be down, but she's not yet out.

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Does the primary campaign end Tuesday?

It all comes down to Texas and Ohio... or does it? Tomorrow's primaries are shaping up to be "Super Tuesday II" for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who are locked in the tightest competition for a party's nomination in recent memory.

A few weeks ago, Clinton was ahead in Texas and Ohio. Last week, Obama had taken the lead. A day before the election, polls put Clinton within the margin of error of Obama.

Will Tuesday's primaries be the last gasp for Hillary Clinton? Or will she stage a comeback?

Ben likes: After all that, she could win

Jennifer Rubin/Contentions

Despite the horrid press and doom-and-gloom campaign leaks, Hillary Clinton is within the margin of error in Texas and slightly ahead in Ohio. If she should win Texas and Ohio there will be a gasp from the media (not to mention some of those superdelegates) who will then have to discard the Obama-mania, invincibility argument and absorb the new storyline: she’s baaaaaack. True, she won’t reach 2025 delegates by June, but the fact remains neither will he.

Joel likes: The final word

Terence Samuel/The American Prospect

March 4 is the new Feb. 5, and, depending on whom you listen to, the race is already over on the Democratic side, with Obama needing just one more win to end the Clinton Age in American politics.

One way or the other, the long, hard fight for the Democratic nomination will produce a winner well positioned to beat John McCain and become an iconic figure in American history. Before that happens, however, Democrats must confront the tough question about what becomes of the loser, the runner-up, so to speak—now presumed to be Hillary Clinton, already an iconic American figure in her own right.