Curtain call for Clinton

With Obama winning decisively for the ninth and tenth time since Super Tuesday last night it is becoming clear that Clinton will not be getting the nomination. She should read the writing on the wall and quit the race now, for the good of the Democratic Party and the nation.

Obama is causing her coalition to crumble, repeating his Virginia performance in Wisconsin last night:

He won 58% of the vote to Clinton’s 43%.

He won white men by 30 percentage points.

He took 53% of white voters in an overwhelmingly white state (versus 41% on Super Tuesday).

He took 48% of women (versus 41% on Super Tuesday).

He split the non-college graduate vote with Clinton (versus 42% on Super Tuesday).

Clinton won white women narrowly, versus carrying them by a double digit lead in most of the previous contests.

Polls in the upcoming states of Texas and Ohio don’t bode well for her either; recent polls show them both in a dead head in Texas where she was heavily anticipated to win the big latino vote there, and Obama catching up to her quickly in Ohio. Given the Democratic method of awarding delegates by proportion rather than winner-take-all, Clinton would have to win these states by huge, lop-sided margins in order to remain competitive–and that’s just not going to happen.

McCain is wasting no time targeting Obama in his speeches. Rather than putting the Clinton machine into heavy negative mode in a manner that could damage the Democratic nominee in the months ahead, she should put her ambition aside for once and do what’s best for the party.

It’s over, girl.

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