Frankly I could care less about sports. If you want competition-- continuous, bloodying, and multi-tiered--stick to politics. However there comes a point in even the continuous game of politics when you pick a winner.
Despite HRC '08's trying to have it, well, EVERY WAY, the Democratic Primary is past that point. The Clinton campaign can't win by the popular vote, the state count, the delegates, through Michigan or Florida. They can't even convince the Supers (see Chuck Todd on what everyone here in DC knows: the party leadership hates the Clintons).
So there's only one thing left for them to do: change the rules and push back the goal posts.
HRC '08 was going to win in Wisconsin, a meme that lasted about a day, and then met a cold, wet and somewhat cheesey fate.
Then they declared Texas and Ohio their firewalls--proof that they could beat back Obama's momentum through shear political will. But Texas didn't come out strongly for the Clintons, despite their deep South Texas roots and preparation. The preparation, admittedly, was belied by Bill's admission that they weren't prepared for the caucus rules, intimations that the rules were unfair, and the threats of a lawsuit.
In fact, Obama eventually proved once again that he is winning the game by the rules, as they are written, and won more delegates in Texas by working the caucus.
Which brings me to the reason I'm here strumming the banjo. We're all waiting, with bells on our toes, for the April 22nd Pennsylvania vote. Hillary is expected to win. And yet here we are, again. Bill is now in Indiana. You know, my home state, Hoosier (basketball) Pride, fried pork, beer cans thrown at unsuspecting pedestrians, accents that Kurt Vonnegut described as "a bandsaw drawn through corrugated steel," and a May 6 primary. Bill is saying that not losing Indiana by a large margin is the next big thing for their campaign.
And that's pretty much why we are here. HRC '08 has lost by all their own metrics. And they've invented even more metrics:
In Virginia she won the closing vote, a state where we had no organization, spent no money. She just went up there for a couple days. In Mississippi, where she was bound to lose, she did much better than everybody expected because she won the closing vote. -- Bill Clinton, in Indiana
In the real world, HRC '08 lost Virgina by 278,000 votes, or over 28%, and Mississippi by 100,000 votes, or over 23%. Bill is now proposing, on these numbers no less, to move the goal posts back so that they can play from the 165th yard line. And they're calling for a Hail Mary.