Quite a unique day today,one great power(former) has just elected a new President,one great power(current) is about to pick the person who will be the overall favourite to be its next president.
Tonight sees two large primaries in Ohio and Texas and they are seen as the last gasp of the faltering Clinton campaign.If she is still behind Obama after tonight,she may well feel the hands of senior democrats on her shoulder urging her to step down.
The public in the United States are waking up to a momentous day in the 2008 campaign
At the Washington Post,they report that
Clinton vowed to press on in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after critical primary tests in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, even as advisers to Sen. Barack Obama said the latest round of voting would do little to improve her standing in a race in which she has been dealt setback after setback.
At the moment,Obama has 1,352 delgates to Clinton's 1,239, a margin of 113.The Obama camp puts it at 162 and even the Clinton camp says 160.There are 370 pledged delegates at stake today and after that onlyly 611 pledged delegates will remain.
The New York Times gives some pointers to watch for as the results come in
Should Mr. Obama sweep all four contests, her hopes will plainly be extinguished. Should she carry Ohio and Texas — as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, said she must to retain a shot at the nomination — she will no doubt fight on to the next big battle, on April 22 in Pennsylvania, and, perhaps, all the way to the convention in Denver. Trickier to handicap would be a split decision, in which Mrs. Clinton won Ohio, for example, but lost Texas.
For people who want to think about possible permutations, keep this one in mind. Because of the way Texas allocates delegates, it is entirely possible that Mrs. Clinton could win the popular vote there but lose to Mr. Obama on delegates
Back in the UK,political betting thinks that the funding issue may be the final straw in the wind.
One thing that we have not heard from the Obama campaign yet is how much money was raised in February and there’s speculation that this is being put on hold just in case Hillary is seen to have re-gained the momentum in today’s primaries.
Her campaign has announced that she raised $35m during the month - a move that just brought a statement from Camp Obama that they had exceeded the total without saying how much.
The Los Angeles Times focuses on Ohio where
Clinton has the backing of freshman Gov. Ted Strickland, who long represented the southeastern Appalachian region in Congress. Obama has the backing of the mayors of the state's three largest cities, Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
The mayors' ties to local political bases could be significant in a state where recent polls showed Clinton with a 6-point lead and 1 in 10 voters still undecided or uncertain.
Over at the Huffington post,the final skirmishes are reported
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama battled over national security and trade in a frantic burst of last-minute campaigning on Monday as Mrs. Clinton accused Mr. Obama of deception as new evidence of discord surfaced within her own camp.
According to the blog
With less than 24 hours to go before voting in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island, Mrs. Clinton's campaign released a sharp television commercial attacking Mr. Obama for being AWOL from his chairmanship of a Senate oversight committee on the forces fighting in Afghanistan -- "he was too busy running for president to hold even one hearing," the ad said -- while Mr. Obama's campaign counterpunched that Mrs. Clinton had herself missed important hearings on Afghanistan before the Senate Armed Services Committee last month.
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