Obama wiped the floor with Clinton yesterday:Louisiana:And check out the contest in the Virgin Islands (a U.S. territory, allowed to participate in nominating elections but not in general elections):
Obama 57%
Clinton 36%
Nebraska:
Obama 68%
Clinton 32%
Washington State:
Obama 68%
Clinton 31%
Obama 90%So much for inevitabililty. Following the virtual tie of Super Tuesday, Sen. Clinton should have at least made a play in these states. That she chose to sit them out in order to focus on bigger states later in the season, handing Obama four huge wins, allows the illusion that her campaign is flailing and that the Senator from Illinois is on a clear path to the Democratic nomination.
Clinton 10%
Sen. Clinton's team would do well to look at another recent nominee who chose to put all their eggs in one basket, sitting out several contests in hopes of big wins in later ones. That plan backfired for Rudy Giuliani...didn't it?
Insisting that Obama debate her on Fox News; getting her gander up with MSNBC and threatening not to participate in debates on that network; these huge losses on Saturday. It seems to me that if Sen. Clinton loses the nomination, this will be the week that lost it for her. The Obama camp has knocked her off stride, and as a result her once iron grip on things seems to be slipping away. And the inevitability of a Democratic coronation for the former First Lady? Well, that bubble has been burst, wouldn't ya say?
Photo evidence of her deteriorating support in the photos below. From the Washington State caucuses yesterday, the first is of the Obama camp at one precinct; the other of the Clinton camp at the same precinct:
