The pundits and political prognosticators were wrong. Hillary Clinton failed to pull off an upset in North Carolina, and in fact, the exact opposite took place. She lost by double-digits after having pulled to within 5-6 percentage points of Obama over the weekend in the tracking polls.
In addition, Clinton failed to win Indiana by the comfortable margin that has been predicted. In fact, as of this writing the state of Indiana has been deemed too close to call, although Hillary is leading Obama by 4%.
Clearly, the movement has shifted to Obama, and he comes out of Tuesday's two primaries with significant momentum.
Not only did Hillary need to win North Carolina, or at least lose by single digits, she needed to win big in Indiana. She got neither. Spin this any way you will and you still have a candidate who is in deep trouble.
The most shocking statistic from the evening, however, comes from Democratic voters in these two states. In Indiana over 60% of Democrats say that Hillary is honest and trustworthy, and over 70% say the same about Obama. In North Carolina 49% say Hillary is honest and trustworthy, while well over 70% say the same about Obama.
This means that in spite of the lies, the spin, the duplicity, and the disingenuousness exhibited by both of these candidates, Democrats appear oblivious to it all.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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