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...concession would look like. She and her husband have been the Democratic establishment for the past 16 years and they have not conceded defeat since he lost the Arkansas governorship in 1980. And she has so recently found an effective political voice, sounding a populist trumpet throughout Pennsylvania and Indiana with an energy that seems inversely related to the health of the economy...
...eulogies for the Clinton campaign can be undone by the whiff of "momentum," we've already seen the final round. And while Barack Obama's 14-point victory in North Carolina - a big state that he was nonetheless expected to win - was decisive, it was his close loss in Indiana that revealed the trends that have brought the Democratic presidential campaign near to a close...
...matter how hard she and her steadfast backers try, the exit polling from Indiana and North Carolina are not going to help make the case for her going on. In order for Clinton to persuade superdelegates to back her over Obama, she needed to demonstrate that she was the less divisive candidate who could win over general election swing voters in states like Indiana. Her aggressive campaign, however, has led to a growing gap - now between 15 and 20 points in Indiana and North Carolina - in the perception that she has been more unfair in her attacks than Obama...
Clinton's recent embrace of a "gas-tax holiday" - an idea dismissed by others in her party as a bit of ineffective pandering - also reinforced questions about her trustworthiness. In Indiana exit polls, a full quarter of Clinton's own supporters said that they did not think she was honest. Just as Obama suffered in Ohio for looking like he was too political on NAFTA, Clinton's position on the gas tax issue riled Indiana voters, who consistently raised it in conversations with reporters the weekend before the primary vote...
...Campaign allies are less restrained when they talk on background. One key Indiana player said the Clinton camp, by questioning Obama's electability, had been "blowing the dog-whistle on race" in Lake County, which helps make up northwestern Indiana's 20%-25% of likely Democratic primary voters. He and other Indiana aides say Clinton surrogate attacks on minority-focused get-out-the-vote efforts in the region were racially based. Others said Clinton's choice of venues, especially "white flight" towns in southern Lake County, were chosen to send racial cues, and to target fertile ground for the coded...