In other Hillary Clinton leaps of logic and truthfulness, the Clinton campaign is now saying that if Obama doesn't win every single primary/caucus this coming Tuesday with a decisive victory, then he's lost big. Forget the fact that if she doesn't win 65% of the delegates in both Ohio and Texas, it's actually over for her - the math says she simply can't win the nomination without that margin of victory.

What's really disturbing here is that the Clinton campaign is making it clear that if Obama doesn't win Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island on Tuesday, and by a huge margin, Hillary plans on staying in the race for the long haul, even if Tuesday is the coup de grace to her campaign. Yes, it sucks to lose, but once you've lost it's better to get out than take us all down with you. This race is getting far too bitter. It went from friendly competition to a death match about 4 weeks ago. If Hillary doesn't get her 65% of delegates in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, she needs to accept that she lost, and quit the race. If she doesn't, then I suspect the negative attacks that are going to be making news next week won't be Hillary's at all. They're going to be from the rest of the party demanding that she concede.

It's starting to look more and more as if Hillary refuses to accept the fact that she's probably not going to be the Democratic nominee and she's willing to split the party to get what she feels is her due. And that is also part of her lack of appeal. This notion that she is owed this.

The math itself will tell you who is going to win the nomination. And currently, there is no way, even under a rosy scenario, that Hillary can get enough delegates to win.

From the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder:

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Using delegate projection software created by Matt Vogel, I ran a scenario yesterday showing how tough it will be for Hillary Clinton to catch up to Barack Obama's earned delegate lead....

So -- under these most rosy of scenarios -- since March 4, she'll have earned 520 delegates to Barack Obama's 461, having reduced his earned delegate total by about 80 -- or -- by about 60 percent -- but he'll still have a lead of approximately 100 delegates in total.


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