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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Weak Night for Hillary
by Rich Galen
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Who won Tuesday's presidential debate?


As John King said on CNN last night that Hillary cannot change the math so she needed to change the psychology of the race but she didn't do that.

For those who may have missed it, Obama won North Carolina by a wide margin; Clinton won Indiana by a smaller margin. Under the rule DNC rules, Obama got much closer to the magic number of 2,025 delegates, Clinton got additional delegates, too, but not as many.

Clinton needed a surprise in North Carolina. She didn't get it.

Hillary Clinton is running out of time and delegates.

My debate partner on these election nights at Associated Press TV, Jenny Backus, told me last night that the Obama campaign will, perhaps as early as today, begin to dribble out superdelegates announcing their support.

The big torrent of supers will be held close to the vest by Obama until after the end of the Democratic primary season - June 3 with elections in Montana and South Dakota. After that, Backus suggested, they will roll out enough supers to put Obama over the top, or at least so close to the necessary number that even the Clinton superdelegates will begin to waver.

The Obama people were giddy over the fact that, even with the Jeremiah Wright "Me-Tour," and the loss in Pennsylvania (which was preceded by the "bitter" business), Obama regained his momentum and his footing with the huge victory in North Carolina.

Speaking of Jeremiah Wright, according to the AP's Alan Fram: Wright was a looming factor in the voting, with half in each state saying he was important in choosing a candidate. Of that group, seven in 10 in Indiana and six in 10 in North Carolina backed Clinton, including eight in 10 whites. Those discounting him as a factor heavily favored Obama. Continued...

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. He currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Subject: Her Job
She actually is a Senator in the U.S. Congress and is paid very well for it. Maybe she will go back to work and justify her salary.

Joe
Hillary's not dead yet. You can be sure she still has plenty of dirty tricks up her sleeve. Whether they'll actually work remains to be seen.

All I can predict is, it won't be dull!
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