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The Scale Of The Win

By The Daily Dish
Feb 9 2008, 10:45 AM ET

This will be hard for the Clinton campaign to spin:

His winning margins were substantial, ranging from roughly two-thirds of the vote in Washington state and Nebraska to nearly 90 percent in the Virgin Islands. With returns counted from more than one-third of the Louisiana precincts, he was gaining 53 percent of the vote, to 39 percent for the former first lady.

Actually they do have spin:

The Obama campaign has dramatically outspent our campaign in these three states, saturating the airwaves with 30 and 60 second ads. The Obama campaign has spent $300,000 more in Louisiana on television ads, $190,000 more in Nebraska and $175,000 more in Nebraska.

So why didn't Clinton compete? As Ambers puts it:

Ordinarily, this would be a firing offense -- how dare they let a state go uncontested?

Two words come to mind when assessing Clinton's apparent strategy to wait the primaries out till bigger, more fertile states: Rudy. Giuliani.



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