Thursday, February 14, 2008
Cancel the coronation?
Was it only last week that I was dumping on Obama's Super Tuesday performance? Amazing what a week can do to an old-fashioned thumb-sucking analysis. So Dan's right that the media should hold off on declaring the Dem race over. The odds are now against Hillary. But there's still Texas and Ohio and superdelegates and, well, the Clintons, who are typically preparing to take 'potentially incendiary steps' to win over delegates. I'm not counting Hillary out. ... One thing I did get partially right: the Dem race, so far, has resembled Bunker Hill, not World War I trench warfare. In retrospect, Potomac Primary Day was the third and seemingly successful charge up the hill for Obama's forces. They took the redoubt and lead in an almost anti-climatic way. But the war isn't over. Both sides are now digging in for a siege. ...
Was it only last week that I was dumping on Obama's Super Tuesday performance? Amazing what a week can do to an old-fashioned thumb-sucking analysis. So Dan's right that the media should hold off on declaring the Dem race over. The odds are now against Hillary. But there's still Texas and Ohio and superdelegates and, well, the Clintons, who are typically preparing to take 'potentially incendiary steps' to win over delegates. I'm not counting Hillary out. ... One thing I did get partially right: the Dem race, so far, has resembled Bunker Hill, not World War I trench warfare. In retrospect, Potomac Primary Day was the third and seemingly successful charge up the hill for Obama's forces. They took the redoubt and lead in an almost anti-climatic way. But the war isn't over. Both sides are now digging in for a siege. ...
