Politics and Culture

One can get a good sense of the race by monitoring the expectations game. In recent days, Team-Clinton has suggested that Obama is in trouble if he loses any one of today's primaries, by which they mean, of course, "We expect to lose, but want to keep our options open." Today, however, the Obama camp is saying that Hillary has to get double-digit wins in order to justify her campaign from here forward, suggesting that Obama's pollsters are predicting a late surge for Hillary:

It is clear that narrow popular vote wins in Texas and Ohio will do very little to improve their nearly impossible path to the nomination. If they do not win Texas and Ohio by healthy double digit margins – and they led by healthy double digit margins as recently as two weeks ago - they will be facing almost impossible odds to reverse the delegate math.

Well, Hillary will never have a better chance to do something than today. The Rezco and NAFTA scandals combined with good demographics for Clinton ("working-class" whites [Obama might be a Muslim] in Ohio- Hispanics [no voy a votar por un mal....] and the security-minded in Texas), historical under-polling of Spanish-speakers, and a possible outbreak of Hillmania amongst mischievious Republicans mean that any movement should go to Hillary today.

On the other hand, if she doesn't win, she probably never win save for a huge Obomb-shell. Wouldn't it be funny if Hillary Clinton benefits from an Obama bimbo-eruption (I'm not suggesting anything.)?