This would be encouraging news, except this is the Clinton Machine we're talking about:
"Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday's elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe wrote in a Wednesday afternoon email to campaign supporters and reporters. "The task for the Clinton campaign yesterday was clear. In order to have a plausible path to the nomination, they needed to score huge delegate victories and cut into our lead... They failed."
Plouffe's numbers have not been confirmed by any other news source. But other media outlets tracking the delegate count have come up with similar, albeit larger, tallies, calculating Clinton's net gain to be between six and eight.
And here's a cogent, cool-headed analysis of why Obama has a better shot against McCain, concluding with what I've been saying all along... to my constituents in the pivotal battleground borough of Brooklyn... who agree with me already.:
6) Finally, let's remember that the base of the Republican Party -- cultural conservatives -- is not so wild about McCain. They are accepting McCain with about as much enthusiasm as children take cough medicine. They know they need him, but they really aren't happy about it. The one thing that could energize the Republican base is their inveterate hatred for Hillary Clinton.
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