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...primary in the nation ends, one hour after the polls close in South Dakota. The fourth-largest state in terms of area (but with fewer than one million people and only three electoral votes) was long accustomed to being flown over by presidential candidates. But this year, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are working hard to pick up a majority of the 17 delegates apportioned by primary voters, plus eventual endorsements from eight independent superdelegates...
...call her calculations "math" is a reach: Clinton's popular vote claim counts all the primary vote totals but ignores the 15 party caucuses that attracted thousands of participants in every state, and which Obama dominated. That's a revealing way to sum up the five-month long election-and it will be intriguing to see how long Clinton chooses to cling to that line...
...another argument-that by making the race so close, she's earned the right to be Obama's running mate. No sooner had this weekend's battles of Michigan, Florida and Puerto Rico come to an end than whispers began to trickle in once more that Clinton will continue to try to pile up marginal delegates to compel Obama to consider her for the number two spot. "There are a bunch of women out there," said one member of her team, "who won't vote for him otherwise...
...true that between 25 and 45 percent of Democrats who voted for Clinton have told pollsters that they would vote for John McCain in the fall rather than Obama, but is that threat credible...
...There is considerable evidence that some of those voters are letting their emotions do the talking-and following in a long tradition by doing so. According to ABC News' polling unit, in the spring 1992, only 63% of Democrats who voted for someone other than Bill Clinton in the primaries that year said they would vote for Clinton over George H. W. Bush that fall. In 1996, 66% of Republicans who voted for someone other than Bob Dole in the G.O.P. primary said they would support Dole against Clinton that fall. Al Gore suffered the same apparent dropout problem; only...