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On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination

The race is theirs to lose.

Calvin Trillin

April 3, 2008

Top Democrats now want to shout, “Oh Hillary, please just get out!” But Hillary and Bill still say, “Get out? Give up? Slink off? No way.”

What’s left? To wound Barack, thus drain His numbers vis-à-vis McCain, Then say, “He’s eloquent and all, But damaged. He can’t win this fall.”

Republicans seemed sunk before– A grim economy, the war. But now the Democrats make news: They’ve figured out a way to lose.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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