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After Ohio and Texas, Hillary Clinton's campaign bounces back

Forget the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom last week said Barack Obama had a mortal lock on the Democratic nomination for president. But Hillary Clinton won two huge contests Tuesday in Ohio and Texas.

Do Clinton's victories change the dynamic of the election yet again? Or is the momentum still with Obama? And now that John McCain has secured the Republican nomination, should the race turn to the general election contest between the GOP and the Democratic standard bearer... whomever that happens to be?

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Ben likes: All bets are off

Victor Davis Hanson/National Review Online

"Yes, She Can" and "Tested and Ready" is trumping "Hope and Change" The race surely goes on, or as Hillary just put it "Counted Out, But Not Knocked Out," "As Ohio Goes, So Goes the Nation," "We're Going On, We're Going Strong," etc. etc. etc. And as she reminded us again, no one has won the presidency without winning Ohio, and she just did. As a good Clintonite, just reflect: Hillary wins Texas and Ohio, reminding us that she wins the big states in play every time, and as we wind down the final stretch, she clearly has the momentum, as serious voters reflect on her long service versus the Obama fad.

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Joel likes: In like a lion

Chadwick Matlin/Slate

For Hillary, this is just the beginning. It doesn’t get any easier as we plow toward Pennsylvania, no matter how many times narratives flip for her by tomorrow morning.

But perhaps we’re post-pledged at this point in the campaign. There’s already word that Clinton’s mini-momentum spike may stem a flood of superdelegates to Obama. Clinton may not need to catch Obama in pledged delegates anymore. Now she needs to focus on convincing superdelegates that they want to back the candidate who wins big, blue states, not small, red ones. That’s still a tough sell when she'll fall short on pledged delegates.

Clinton is off to a roaring start to the new month, but in the end, she’s still likely to go out like a lamb.

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correcting former post..

Submitted on March 5th, 2008 by Anonymous

Corrections:

Hillary will eventually become the nominee. At 8:30am central time, a quick poll indicated about sixty-one percent(according to a CNN quick poll http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/american... ) feel that Florida and Michigan delegates should be seated. As this primary continues there will be more and more pressure to seat those delegates and there should be. The delegates should never have been stripped to begin with. In our country we have constitutional rights that include the right to vote for the President of the US. Hillary is the candidate that has carried the true blue states, which IMO means she is the candidate that long standing Democrats prefer. Obama supporters believe that if it is a Democratic state or blue state, he will carry it, I'm not so sure. For one to believe that he will definitely carry the true blue states in the General Election, how do you explain that he didn't carry them in the Primary?

Hillary is in for the long haul

Submitted on March 5th, 2008 by Anonymous

Hillary will eventually become the nominee. At 8:30am central time to sixty-one percent(according to a CNN quick poll http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/american... ) feel that Florida and Michigan delegates should be seated. As this primary continues there will be more and more pressure to seat those delegates and there should be, the delegates should never have been stripped to begin with. In our country we have constitutional rights that include the right to vote for the President of the US. Hillary is the candidate that has carried the true blue states, which IMO means she is the candidate that long standing Democrats prefer. Obama supporters believe that if is a Democratic state or blue state, he will carry it, I'm not so sure. For one to believe that he will definetly carry the true blue states in the General Election, how do you explain that he didn't carry them in the Primary?

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