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Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist told reporters Tuesday night that the Obama team "has a lot to celebrate and they (the Clintons) have a lot to think about." The implication from David Axelrod is clear...the time for "spin control" is over in the Clinton camp. A parade of network commentators and analysts have declared the race over. But the TV networks and newspaper columnists aren't calling the shots. The stunning headline on one of Clinton's hometown newspapers seemed to say it all. A photo of her and the headline "Toast" greeted readers of the New York Post. A prominent website reports superdelegates are "unavailable" to meet with Hillary Clinton right now. But all indications from the Clinton camp, including strategist Howard Wolfson, are the campaign will go on.

As we noted on this blog last week, the controversy over the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was handled expertly and the timing of his outburst and Obama's denunciation was as choreographed as an Olympic figure skating event. Clinton's call for a federal "gas tax holiday" this summer was adroitly played as an example of old style Washington political pandering. She looked very good on the campaign trail....better than her obviously fatigued opponent. But it now appears that will play like a ballplayer going four for four while his team gets clobbered. In American politics, there are no extra points awarded (or delegates for that matter) for good performances when you're campaign is outspent. Losing is losing. Clinton was clobbered in North Carolina and barely survived a last minute Obama onslaught in Indiana. Her options and her money are dwindling quickly. And to what end? What is the rationale now to continue? Is there something she and her husband know about Obama that will make him ultimately unelectable? Or will the charge of the light brigade continue with a motivation born only of ego and ambition? Last night in his speech, Obama again hit stride telling the country why he wants to be president. One major reason is to try and put aside the politics of division. Is it time for her to get out? And who, if anyone in the Democratic Party, has the stature to tell her and her husband it's over. Obama campaign co-chair Bill Daley says no one. He told "Fox Chicago Sunday" the race will go down to the bitter end in June and only then will it end.

There's no evidence yet he's wrong and no amount of "fuzzy math" in the Clinton campaign will change what has now become the inevitable outcome.

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there is a lot to think about...but will she?

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