The end is in sight in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton campaign Chairman Terry MacAuliffe said on the Today Show that his candidate will step out of the race and campaign for Barack Obama if she has not won the nomination by June 1. In that scenario, she would not compete in the June 3 primaries, the last of the season, in Montana and South Dakota.
In a speech in Charleston, W. Va, Clinton sounded as though she was making her last stand. She modified her stump speech, saying “if” instead of “when” she wins the
Democratic nomination. After her surprisingly narrow win in Indiana on Tuesday, it seems increasingly unlikely that Clinton has a path to the nomination. Former President Carter, who remains uncommitted in the race, has said that superdelegates should go with whoever has won the most states, votes and delegates.
He is probably not alone in that belief, and it wouldn’t take too many more delegates who feel that way to put Obama over the top. And with the language of defeat creeping into Clinton’s speech, it seems as though she’s pretty aware that her days in the race are numbered.
