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Despite Barack Obama’s outspending of Clinton by a three or four to one margin in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has beaten him by a significant margin and lives to continue the fight. In two weeks, she will be facing Obama in Indiana and North Carolina, and she needs to win Indiana. Bold prediction: she will win Indiana. That is the sort of state that Obama has had trouble with, and there is no reason to believe he will be able to defeat her there. Clinton declared in her victory speech tonight that the tide is turning in this election, and I happen to believe that. Clinton still has an uphill battle, but Indiana is going to go her way and she will remain competitive in all the remaining states.

Unless superdelegates intervene on Obama’s behalf, this election is nowhere near decided. Obama would like you to believe that that event is right around the corner — that Hillary Clinton is, as Dick Cheney would put it, in her “last throes” — but that is not the case. I imagine superdelegates sitting around, ripping their hair out wondering whether or not Obama can win in November and if not, then how can they best justify their decision to choose Hillary?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).