Rack up another big swing state for Hillary Clinton.
She swamped her Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, in the West Virginia primary yesterday, by a better than 2-1 margin.
It would seem to support her argument that she is the candidate who wins the big swing states the party will need to capture the White House in November. That she is the candidate who is best positioned to defeat John McCain.
But it won’t silence the calls for her to get out of the race.
Today she will huddle her financial advisers from across the country. What they tell her likely will be the key in whether she continues to tilt at this windmill, a race most believe she cannot win.
Maybe she will use her wins in the big industrial states to muscle her way onto the ticket as Obama’s vice presidential choice.
Or maybe she wants the party to cover some of her growing financial debt.
But for now she’s simply indicating she’s not going anywhere.
Next up is Kentucky and, yep, she likely will wax Obama there, too.
Maybe that’s the whole point. Maybe she won’t do anything until after June 1. After all, what good would it do for Obama to wind up losing a primary to someone who is not even still in the race.
She swamped her Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, in the West Virginia primary yesterday, by a better than 2-1 margin.
It would seem to support her argument that she is the candidate who wins the big swing states the party will need to capture the White House in November. That she is the candidate who is best positioned to defeat John McCain.
But it won’t silence the calls for her to get out of the race.
Today she will huddle her financial advisers from across the country. What they tell her likely will be the key in whether she continues to tilt at this windmill, a race most believe she cannot win.
Maybe she will use her wins in the big industrial states to muscle her way onto the ticket as Obama’s vice presidential choice.
Or maybe she wants the party to cover some of her growing financial debt.
But for now she’s simply indicating she’s not going anywhere.
Next up is Kentucky and, yep, she likely will wax Obama there, too.
Maybe that’s the whole point. Maybe she won’t do anything until after June 1. After all, what good would it do for Obama to wind up losing a primary to someone who is not even still in the race.
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