OHIO AND TEXAS….Matt Yglesias, after looking at the polls and suggesting that Hillary Clinton might win both Ohio and Texas, says:
Now under the circumstances, I see no real way for Clinton to make up the lost delegate lead, but at this point it does seem to me that she and her campaign staff are probably egomaniacal enough that if they pull out a narrow “win” they’ll keep running anyway hoping for lightning to strike and seeing the damage it’ll do to the party as a feature, rather than a bug, since a crippled Obama who loses to John McCain could set them up for another run in 2012.
Holy cats. This is entering Andrew Sullivan territory. It’s also almost certainly wrong on an analytical basis since Democrats are famously hard on candidates who don’t win their first time around. Name the last time that a Democratic primary loser came back to win a subsequent Democratic primary without being vice president in between. You have to go back 80 years. Hillary Clinton knows perfectly well that this is her only shot at the presidency. That’s why she’s fighting so hard.
