"They keep moving the goal posts, but at some point you run out of field,"

[peoli]

"In a statement emailed to reporters, and reiterated on a conference call just now, Obama's campaign Manager, David Plouffe, says:

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."


more....

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Plouffe_Its_still_over.html

[jlake]

1. Sounds like the Obama campaign is the one moving the goalposts and playing

the expectations game to me.
Why do they hate Democracy? Let all of the voters decide.
If Obama had truly already won, he would have the 2025 delegates and Hillary wouldn't be in the race.

[anonymous171]

3. I normally wouldn't have a problem with that.

Except now Hillary is literally taking Obama down with her. She's even allied with McCain for god's sake!

[jefferson_dem]

4. Wrong.

...

Clinton Chief Strategist Mark Penn: “After March 4th, over 3000 delegates will be committed, and we project that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be virtually tied with 611 delegates still to be chosen in Pennsylvania and other remaining states. Again and again, this race has shown that it is voters and delegates who matter, not the pundits or perceived ‘momentum.’”


Clinton aide Guy Cecil: "We think that at the end of the day on March 4 we will be within 25 delegates.”


Howard Wolfson: “I Think We Will Be Ahead In The Delegate Race After Texas And Ohio.”


New York Times: “Clinton advisers have said Mrs. Clinton must win the Texas and Ohio primaries by at least 10 percentage points if she has any hope of catching up with Mr. Obama in the delegate count, particularly because he has shown momentum recently at picking up support from elected officials who count as superdelegates.”

[Cha]

2. GoTexans and GOhio for

Obama!!