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among them the highly-respected Jay Cost: Elite opinion on the Democratic race has congealed around the idea that it is over. Clinton has no chance whatsoever to win the nomination now. There is a minority of analysts out there - maybe 5%, maybe even less - who see her path to the nomination as much narrower than it was four days ago, but who still see a path. I’m with the minority on this one. I think she is nearly finished, but not quite yet.

As the number of primaries and caucuses continues to dwindle (along with the number of still available delegates), pressure has been building for Hillary Clinton to end her campaign. "There's only one question," writes Michael Tomasky in The Guardian. "Does Hillary Clinton keep going?" Jennifer Parker of ABC News reports that Clinton has already answered that question. "'It's a new day, it's a new state, it's a new election,' Clinton told reporters at a press conference in West Virginia. 'I'm

Clinton alternatively indicated that she was going to continue fighting tooth and nail for the Democratic nomination and that she was mentally preparing herself to start burying the hatchet and accepting that she will not be her party's nominee. READ THE COMMENTARY

to come out today and call on Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race.  Lawrence O’Donnell reports that a high ranking Clinton official said today that she would drop out by June 15th.  Michael Tomasky of The Guardian speculates that Hillary might employ “the nuclear option” and go after all of the delegates in Florida and Michigan at the meeting of the Rules Committee on May 31st.  Ross Douthat of The Atlantic writes that Clinton

Matt Towery of Southern Political Report says that Senator Obama’s North Carolina win was bigger than expected because he picked up most of the last-minute deciders. This tells us something about momentum, maybe. Of Indiana, Michael Tomasky writes, The narrow Indiana margin was a stunner and is worth dwelling on. How did that happen? It’d be lovely to think that substance may actually have had something to do with it. That is, it may have proved that Clinton

. But just the opposite happened, and dramatically so. Her campaign had been building up expectations that they had Obama on the run and the momentum was all her way. Now she has no momentum. Or, as it happens, money.” http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_tomasky/2008/05/the_end_of_the_line_1.html 3. More on the Food Crisis The Herald Tribune carries an interesting opinion piece on food aid and subsidies. Apparently, while European countries provide all their food aid in cash, “The United States

The end of the line? US elections 2008: Obama's win in North Carolina and narrow loss in Indiana make Clinton's candidacy tenuous - but that doesn't mean she'll bow out