Beltway Snark

Why is it that when Hillary loses it’s because of her own failings, but when Obama loses there’s some sort of grand reason why that has nothing to do with Obama himself?

David Axelrod, Obama’s top strategist, told reporters that he attributed Clinton’s two point lead in Indiana to Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” where the conservative talk show host urged Republican listeners to vote for Clinton to prolong the Democratic nomination fight.

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Indiana exit polls showed that four in ten Democrats who said they would vote for McCain over Clinton in a general election nonetheless voted for Clinton on Tuesday; however, just twelve percent who would vote for McCain over Obama voted for the Illinois senator.

I ask again, explain North Carolina. I think Obama’s new campaign strategy is a hoot too:

He said that he’d compete in the six remaining Democratic contests, but added that the campaign would focus on the general election “because likely Republican nominee John McCain had ‘basically run free for some time now because we’ve been consumed with this.’ He added: ‘I don’t think we’re going to spend time solely in primary states,”" writes Nick Timiraos of the Wall Street Journal.

“Pressed by reporters whether that meant the campaign would make stops in general election states over the next month, Axelrod said: ‘You could infer that from what I said,’” Timiraos added.

Guess those remaining states don’t matter very much to Obama now.