Things are looking ever worse for Hillary. A new USA Today/Gallup poll gives Obama a national double-digit lead, 51-39 percent, over Hillary. The outlook for next week’s Texas and Ohio primaries is not good either: While Hillary still has the lead in Ohio, Obama is now ahead in Texas. But Hillary is fighting back, the New York Times reports today:
Other attacks include criticizing “Obama on Monday for not distancing himself from outside groups running advertisements that promote his candidacy” and for his reaction to the photo of him in traditional Somali clothing. Bloggers agree that this tactic isn’t likely to work very well for Mrs. Clinton. Tom Bevan at the Real Clear Politics blog explains: “[T]he Clinton campaign’s biggest sin this cycle was buying into their own hype of inevitability early on and underestimating Barack Obama. They didn’t attack him when they should have because they felt they didn’t need to. Big mistake.” Allahpundit adds, “She can’t club Bambi now or else she’ll look desperate, but she couldn’t club Bambi last year when she was ahead or else she would have looked mean and … Hillary-ish.” Some bloggers remind us that “going negative” hasn’t worked for Hillary in the past, either. Captain Ed says her demise began “when her campaign started discussing his kindergarten essays as evidence of his supposedly overweening ambition. Until then, she ruled the polls.” And lefty blogger Kyle Moore at Comments From Left Field agrees: “From South Carolina to Wisconsin, going negative for Hillary has proven to be a technique that only backfires and blows up in her own face.” Attacks aside, Jules Crittenden remarks that this “kitchen sink” metaphor is kind of weird: “Never mind the mixing of domestic and martial metaphors, it’s awkward choice of words for someone engaged in 1960s feminism’s last stand.”
