Yeah, a trailing baseball team should give up in the eighth inning. But wait, I've seen a trailing team pull out a ninth inning victory.
I don't see why Clinton has a duty to drop out now. Obama leads Clinton by 159 delegates out of 2,024. In popular vote (without MI and FL) Obama leads by 3%. With Mi and Fl, it's tighter. By any measure, this is still a close contest.
Moreover, there are still several states left to have primaries. I don't see why those states shouldn't get a voice. There are 217 delegates left in those States and 267.5 undecided Super Delegates. If she should win overwhelmingly in those states she can catch Obama.
Apart from the spin, there is plenty of time between the last primary and November to get a candidate's message out. Bill Clinton didn't clintch the nomination until June 1992.
The deciding factor will be money. If Clinton's donors stop giving she's pull out.
EDIT:
The closeness in this race is tribute to how the Democratic voters like both candidates. Their policy differences are minimal.
Fortunately, there is a stark difference between both Clinton/Obama and McCain. As the New York Times editiorial board said:
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On a day when Mr. Obama won a decisive victory in North Carolina and Mrs. Clinton eked out a win in Indiana, Mr. McCain spoke about his judicial philosophy. He is determined to move a far too conservative and far too activist Supreme Court and federal judiciary even further and more actively to the right.
Mr. McCain predictably criticized liberal judges, vowed strict adherence to the Founders' views and promised to appoint more judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. That is just what the country does not need.
Since President Bush chose Justices Roberts and Alito, the Court has ordered Seattle and Louisville to scrap voluntary school integration, protected employers who illegally mistreat their workers, and constrained women's right to choose and voters' right to vote.
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The last thing that we need is more judges in those two's mold.
Take the
Bush McCain Challenge. Can you tell the difference?