If Carville is a Clinton supporter, he isn't a very helpful one. Before Super Tuesday he was telling everyone that her campaign would be over if she lost California. I agreed with him, but that was beside the point. As an adviser and supporter, how is it helpful to set up these standards that are getting harder and harder to meet.
Before the Potomac Primary, Carville said on CNN that Hillary would have to win OHIO, TEXAS, AND PENNSYLVANIA. All three of them - if she loses a single one, it's over! I think that it is highly unlikely that any lead she has in those states will still be around a month from now, and considering the fact that those states delegates are proportionally awarded, who are they kidding?
I'm an Obama supporter, and I have to say, I'm quite pleased at the turn of events. Hillary said herself (before Super Tuesday of course) that after Super Tuesday, the election is likely to break in one direction or another. How easily we forget! Jeffrey Toobin on CNN made a very funny point the other day that seems to be Hillary's new strategy - to discount every Obama victory based on the fact that pre-election polling had him ahead.
"Oh that was a caucus state"
"there are black people in that state, and it's not representative of the nation as a whole"
"Jesse Jackson won that state"
"Ready on Day one." blah blah.
The idea that results like these being discounted simply because "they expected Obama to win" is ridiculous. The fact remains that Obama is winning, and she is losing. The election has broken open for Obama, and people are excited that the Democratic nominee can fight the Republican nominee, and the war will be the #1 issue in the campaign. If Hillary becomes the nominee - at this point by stealing the election, it will be 2004 all over again. Let's rally behind Obama now, and then watch the Republicans tear each other apart at their convention!