A TITANIC MOOD IN THE CLINTON CAMP; Obama Landslide in Weekend Primaries

By Marc Pitzke in New York

Barack Obama had a good weekend: He won all four primaries in Washington, Louisiana, Nebraska and even Maine, where he had been running far behind in polls. Reeling over her losses, Hillary Clinton pulled the emergency brakes and fired her campaign manager.

As if things weren't bad enough already: After a campaign appearance in Manassas, a historic town in Virginia, Hillary Clinton was forced to spend her afternoon Saturday at Dulles Airport in Washington waiting to take a charter jet to her next stump speech. But gale force winds of up to 100 kilometers per hour grounded flights out of the airport. Clinton's flight was also cancelled, along with her next event. It was a bad way to end a miserable primary weekend -- one in which her opponent Barack Obama had cleaned up at the polls.

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It was a spectacular failure. And as Clinton sat at the airport with the press corp, a more dramatic storm brewed behind the scenes. On the same afternoon, Clinton not only cancelled her final appearance of the evening, but also accepted the resignation tendered by her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle.

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An Indirect Hometeam Advantage

This weekend's state votes could mark a turning point in the Democratic primary season: Clinton is now, suddenly, under tremendous pressure. Meanwhile Obama's famous "momentum" currently appears unstoppable. As of Sunday, he had won 19 out of 32 state primaries. His weekend wins may only have been the political equivalent of winning a stage in a cycling race, but it also means that Obama now has almost as many delegates as Clinton, who was once considered unbeatable in the race for the Democratic nomination. Depending on the method used to calculate delegates, Obama may already be ahead.

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http://www.spiegel.de:80/international/world/0,1518,534419,00.html

I have nothing to add other than I do not think we should be overconfident at all.

talking about how many people are volunteering and giving ... blah blah
I do hope she shows some class and gets behind the nominee and ESPECIALLY supports him in the House.

It doesn't transmit strength in my opinion. I know she is trying to build on her "embodying" change, bu I think she would be better served to appear stronger.

there are a number of states she has an advantage in the polls so far.

There will be a battle to the end.

But this is just round six of a fifteen round title fight and the Clinton campaign might just get its wind back. The contender is looking like he hasn't broken a sweat, yet.

In Nebraska, where 93 percent of the population is Caucasian, Obama out-distanced Clinton even further: 68 percent compared to 32. However, his landslide victory didn't come entirely as a surprise -- his mother is from neighboring Kansas, which brought him an indirect hometeam advantage.

The writer thinks Nebraskan voters went for Obama cuz his mom's from a neighboring state? Yeah, I'm sure a lot of them decided that way. :eyes:

it's the same. lol I never thought to ask where his mother was from! How did I overlook that.

You must be another one of those cult followers who just doesn't study the important stuff.:D

it's the same. lol I never thought to ask where his mother was from! How did I overlook that.

New Hampshire was another reminder of that.

Momentum is more of a PR thing. I don't think he'll win OH or TX, but it should be close.

between Iowa and NH...