Wed
Feb
13
“ An analysis of the delegate count by Politico indicates that Obama’s wide margins in contests over the last week mean that Clinton will be forced to answer with not just victories, but landslides of her own, in the big states on which she is staking her hopes – Ohio and Texas, which vote March 4… There are 573 delegates up for grabs between March 4 and April 22. For Clinton to even things up, she needs to get 345 of those 573 delegates, or 60 percent – the sort of margin she won in her home state of New York.
I must disagree with Smith this time around: if Hillary does win Texas, Ohio, and Penn - by whatever margins - then she will have won 7 of the US’s 8 most populous states: all but Obama’s own Illinois. Then America will have spoken, and it will not have spoken Obama’s name.
Problem is it’s starting to look so BLOODY difficult to win Texas and Ohio…