The Young Turks

<h1>Despite the mainstream media's interest in portraying the Democratic nomination contest as being closer than it actually is, the truth is now gradually sinking in that Hillary Clinton has hardly any chance to head the Democrats' presidential ticket.</h1><h1>Yet she has persisted in throwing the proverbial kitchen-sink. While this may have worked in the short term in both Texas and Ohio (with a fair bit of help from Rush Limbaugh), the latest polls indicate that her favourability ratings have fared worse than Sen. Obama's and are down to 37%, whereas her younger rival appears to have weathered the Wrigth controversy (not that it's going to go away - Republicans will ensure that) astonishingly well.</h1><h1>In other words, her current campaign strategy is damaging her standing within the Democratic party. In order to sway a sufficient number of superdelegates, she would have to either gain the upper hand in the pledged delegate count or popular vote (at the very least excluding Michigan). As we all know, she'd have to win in all upcoming contests by margins she only managed to obtain in her former home-state of Arkansas.</h1><h1>This cannot be done by continuing the present attacks against Obama. This would necessitate an utter implosion of the Obama campaign. Say him being caught in bed with a dead girl or live boy...</h1><h1>This means that she herself can do nothing (save oppo research) to gain the nomination.</h1><h1>In effect, she finds herself in the same position as both Romney and Huckabee were after Supertuesday. Romney suspended his campaign and Huckabee soldiered on in the same sunny, optimistic manner John Edwards did in 2004.</h1><h1>Huckabee said himself that he hoped for a "miracle". Read: A major scandal making McCain unelectable.</h1><h1>The same rationale lead to Mitt Romney suspending rather than ending his campaign. And an attentive observer will have noted that one of his sons made noises about his father reentering the campaign shortly after the NYT story about McCain's relations with a telecommunications lobbyist broke. Had it really hurt McCain, Romney would have jumped back in.</h1><h1>Those were two legitimate options available to McCain's rivals, once he had become his party's prohibitive favourite.
</h1><h1>Hillary's present kitchen-sink strategy is not. It just hurts the Democratic party and as polls and the utterances of several influential  superdelegates have shown here on political stature.</h1><h1>It's just not smart and makes no sense. It beats me why she and her entourage haven't understood that yet. Is a sense of entitlement, vanity or hurt pride keeping her from doing the right and as it happens smart thing to do?</h1><h1>Sen. Clinton, by all means stick in there, gain political points by winning a number of upcoming primaries just like Huckabee did in Louisiana & Co. That's fair game. But run a positive campaign! It helps the party and your own political career!</h1><h1>For you to win in 2008 would require a "miracle". And a possible 2012 campaign would be much aided by you following the Huckabee route. Just look at how he gained in political stature!</h1>