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Jamie Dupree

The Lady In The Pantsuit Keeps Going

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Jamie Dupree
@ May 13, 2008 12:00 AM
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Hillary Clinton is dead. She can't win the Democratic nomination. She's lost already. She should quit. There's no way that she can beat Barack Obama.

Talk like that just seems to make Clinton fight even harder, as we have seen already this year in New Hampshire, on Super Tuesday, in Texas and Ohio, then in Pennsylvania and Indiana.

Clinton seems to revel in the negative spotlight, like a kid who decides when told that he/she can't do something, "I'll show them."

On Sunday at a Mother's Day rally in West Virginia, Clinton reeled off a series of notes she had received from voters in that state, all encouraging her to keep up the fight and not to give up until her opponent had locked up the Democratic nomination.

"I guess my favorite one was from a woman named Angela," Clinton told a partisan crowd.

"'Keep strong,' she said."

"It's not over until the lady in the pantsuit says it is," related Clinton to howls of approval.

And until Obama can get 50 percent of the delegates, plus one for his majority, the lady from New York/Arkansas/Illinois/Pennsylvania sure doesn't seem ready to give up.

Unfortunately for her, the math just gets more bleak seemingly every waking hour of the day.

On Monday, as I drove around the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, the superdelegate count kept going against her as it has for most of the past three months.

Two superdelegates from Hawaii went to Obama, including Sen. Daniel Akaka.

There was the Chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party, Keith Roark casting his lot with Obama.

"I have no doubt that Senator Obama will run the stronger race," Roark said in a statement.

"The unprecedented enthusiasm Senator Obama has generated here in Idaho is unlike anything I have seen in the past 31 years of active political participation in this State," said Roark.

There was Rep. Tom Allen of Maine, who spoke glowingly of Hillary and Bill Clinton, but said he was casting his lot with Obama.

Meanwhile, my blackberry hadn't received one email from the Clinton Camp about any new superdelegates, sort of the Standing Operating Procedure of the past five weeks, as the superdelegate advantage has shifted in Obama's favor overall.

"It is time to bring a graceful end to the primary campaign," Rep. Allen said in Portland, Maine.

But unless there is a big surprise tonight, it seems to me that this race is going on to the May 20th round of primaries in Oregon (where Obama is the favorite) and Kentucky (where Clinton is the favorite.)

Clinton is expected to win with a sizeable margin and will pick up a chunk of delegates tonight, but nothing like the numbers she needs to win the overall race.

One note, Clinton will have a primary night celebration in Charleston, WV. Barack Obama has nothing on his schedule for tonight at all.

As the lady in the pantsuit keeps going.



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