Jules Witcover: Playing out the string

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Once again, as the end of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination seems close at hand, the words of that great American philosopher, Yogi Berra, are apropos: “It ain?t over till it?s over.”

The odds are stronger than ever, in the wake of Hillary Clinton?s latest failure to cut into Barack Obama?s mathematical lead in the delegate fight, that he will be the nominee. But there are good reasons beyond the eventual outcome for the competition to go on.

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