Can’t the Clintons just go away?

Mar 7th, 2008 by Sonny

She can’t win. She’s hurting the party. And she keeps praising John McCain. Maybe she wants a spot on his ticket…

Hillary’s New Math Problem | Newsweek Voices – Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com
Hillary Clinton won big victories Tuesday night in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. But she’s now even further behind in the race for the Democratic nomination. How could that be? Math. It’s relentless.

To beat Barack Obama among pledged delegates, Clinton now needs even bigger margins in the 12 remaining primaries than she needed when I ran the numbers on Monday—an average of 23 points, which is more than double what she received in Ohio.

Counter point from Andrew Sullivan:

Still, we think “the math” will make all the confusion disappear. Sorry, but no matter how many graphics generators, telestrators or calculators we deploy, this is politics. It is not algebra class. And in this campaign, it looks like the only count that matters will be the first ballot at the Democratic national convention.