Media Claims Clinton Campaign Kaput
 Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Today's headlines.

CBS...CNN...MSNBC...many commentators across the MSM board are claiming it's over for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.  The results from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina - though not 100% reported yet - have Clinton the projected winner in Indiana with 51% of the vote (37 delegates), and Barack Obama the projected winner in North Carolina with 56% of the vote (62 delegates).  Although the mainstream implies it's a done deal - Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee - it's worth keeping in mind that these same channels have aired for months on end those who said Clinton should drop out of the race to give the Dems a push.

"Some in Washington are saying we need to end this," Hillary Clinton said this week.  "I think we want to keep this going so the people of West Virginia's voices are heard...I am running to be president of all 50 states."

She added that critics of her campaign dubbed Obama the Democratic nominee even before New Hampshire, Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania.

Primaries that have yet to take place for the Democratic ticket:

May 13:  Nebraska, West Virginia
May 20:  Kentucky, Oregon
June 3:  Montana, South Dakota

Truth be told, it is still statistically possible for either candidate to win the Democratic nomination.  So for either side to claim that one has it in the bag is just what the mass media has made of this entire race all along:  speculation.  It's kind of sad, to us at least, that the New York media has been so hard on Hillary, their own Senator, when they should be so proud of the first female U.S. presidential candidate to blaze a trail in this man's world of presidential politics.

Or else that's why.

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