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Hillary Clinton makes a last stand in Texas and Ohio

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Hillary Clinton must win by gargantuan margins in next week's primaries in Ohio and Texas or else her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination will be over, according to her husband former President Bill Clinton and other political pundits. The odds of that happening are daunting.

Polls show that Clinton, who has lost ten straight contests to Obama, is losing ground to the Illinois senator in Ohio and that she is virtually tied in Texas. Over the past few months, Clinton's support has eroded among almost every demographic group and there is no sign that is going to change.

These days, Clinton exudes all of the charm of a middle school disciplinarian. Her recent outburst that Obama should be "ashamed" of himself for sending out misleading advertising mailers is a case in point. Factcheck.org, which argued that she has some valid points, argued that Clinton is no slouch in stretching the truth in her advertisements either:
We reported on Feb. 6 that a mailing by her campaign contained a "big distortion" of Obama's position on Social Security taxes and falsely implied that he had "no plan" to address mortgage foreclosures. It also attacked him for voting for a "Dick Cheney" energy bill that gave "huge tax breaks to oil companies," when in fact the bill gave a net tax increase to oil companies.
In the coming years, historians will debate the reasons for the collapse of the Clinton campaign. Top among them will no doubt be hubris. The New York senator seemed to expect a coronation from Democratic voters. Instead, she's almost lost an election to a politician who most voters had never heard of until fairly recently. Clinton just can't seem to get over this fact, which is a shame.

--Freelance writer Jonathan Berr edits the blog Ketchup and Eggs.

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