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WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams on Sunday, engineering a shake-up in a presidential campaign struggling to overcome rival Sen. Barack Obama's financial and political strengths.
Clinton replaces campaign manager - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Hillary may have miscalculated. She may have thought she would knock out Obama on super Tuesday. That didn't happen. Now she is scrambling to win in the remaining states. Unfortunately for her, McCain has emerged as the likely GOP nominee, and the Democrats in the states that still have to hold primaries (eg Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc) will now be forced to decide on who would be the strongest Democratic candidate against McCain. That candidate should be someone who can win swing states and red states. That appears to be Barack Obama. Clinton Democrats in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania will now have to face the reality that Barack matches up better with McCain. This will result in Barack winning in the Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania primaries, as pragmatic considerations will force Hillary supporters to abandon her in favor of the stronger general election candidate.
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Hillary may have miscalculated. She may have thought she would knock out Obama on super Tuesday. That didn't happen. Now she is scrambling to win in the remaining states. Unfortunately for her, McCain has emerged as the likely GOP nominee, and the Democrats in the states that still have to hold primaries (eg Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc) will now be forced to decide on who would be the strongest Democratic candidate against McCain. That candidate should be someone who can win swing states and red states. That appears to be Barack Obama. Clinton Democrats in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania will now have to face the reality that Barack matches up better with McCain. This will result in Barack winning in the Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania primaries, as pragmatic considerations will force Hillary supporters to abandon her in favor of the stronger general election candidate.
Not only that but some Republicans are now crossing over and taking Democratic ballots and many of them are voting for Obama as well.
It is a little early to write her off. We still have several more states left to go.
The Vegas odds makers have Clinton at a slight advantage over Obama to take the nomination. They have the Dems at a substantial advantage over the Repubs to take the White House. I'm going with the LV odds makers. Obama is headed for the maw of the Clinton election machine, I don't see Obama surviving the all out assault of the Clinton Political Empire.
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