England for Obama

After ten consecutive victories, winning 25 states to Hillary Clinton’s 11 so far, momentum is clearly with Barack Obama. Clinton’s campaign however has momentum of it’s own too. It’s the momentum of a slow motion car crash.

We all know the feeling when time seems to slow down as our car skids towards the crunch you know is going to happen, but are powerless to prevent. Despite all the talk of superdelegates, a contested convention, and calls to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan, the loss of Wisconsin signals the moment that the Clinton campaign started spinning out of her control. The end is now inevitable, it’s only a question of how much longer the tyres squeal, and how much damage the final crash causes.

Clinton’s problem isn’t the delegate count, although where voters have had their say the majority have backed Barack, it’s the increasingly obvious fact that she has failed. Factor in the repeated polls which give a Democrat victory in the general election only with Obama as the candidate, and the strategy of relying on superdelegates starts to look as foolish as it is dangerous. But turkeys don’t vote for Christmas any more than superdelegates will leap on the bonnet of her out of control car.

Obama’s camp called Wisconsin Hillary Clinton’s “no excuses” contest, and they were correct. She should have romped home given the demographics of the State. Instead, yet another wheel came off, and people are wondering just how many spares she has left.

No doubt her spin contol team will argue that they still have their so-called firewall in Texas and Ohio, but in truth there must now be doubts as to whether it’s more likely to be the final fireball.

Ironically, it’s Obama’s inclusive appeal which is driving his campaign straight and true, and as the fight gets nastier and nastier, Democrats must be dreaming that she’ll slam on the brakes before she takes the Party the same way as her campaign. It’s time somebody took Hillary aside and advised her to stop her car before too much damage is done.

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