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With her victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island last night, it appears Hillary Clinton has kept her campaign alive at least through the start of spring.
The primary in Pennsylvania, the next big state with a large number of delegates at stake, isn’t until April 22. (There are contests in Wyoming this Saturday and Mississippi next Tuesday, but they won’t mean much.)
Meanwhile, John McCain is headed to the White House today to receive President Bush’s blessing as the official Republican nominee in the 2008 election.
Given the fact many had written his campaign off as recently as last summer, McCain’s comeback is as big a story as Barack Obama’s surge.
Whichever Democrat wins that party’s nod, they’ll do everything possible to tie McCain to a Republican administration that after eight years has the country bogged down in Iraq and fighting off a recession here at home. But Clinton carries plenty of baggage of her own from the eight years her husband spent in the White House; and as evidenced by Tuesday’s results, questions remain among voters as to whether Obama has the experience to become leader of the free world.