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If you didn't like Hillary and Bill before, you can loath them now. Calling on Obama to get on her ticket as veep is about as smug as team Clinton has ever been, and if there is one thing people don't like, it's smugness. What's more, in PA and in the other remaining primary states, Obama will get a surge from people who normally can't be bothered to vote. Call it the "screw you, Clinton" vote.
I don't really blame her for trying. Morris is right. She's all but washed up and grasping at straws. He's right, too, about a backlash within the dem party if Clinton gets the nomination by any other means than the elected delegate route.
While his political calculus on the current Obama-Clinton tug of war is pretty much on target, his projection that Obama as the nominee automatically defeats McCain is a shot in the dark. It's what a statistician would call a naive projection. That is to say, it's correct only if there are no surprises between the conventions and election day. By surprises I mean no new issues, no new revelations, no major world events, etc. etc, nothing to call into question Obama's judgement, capability, and experience, or the converse, no positive developments that enhance McCain's attractiveness to voters.
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