the cyclical argument

Despite the fact that she can't mathematically take the popular vote or delegate count, Hillary Clinton refuses to leave the Democratic nomination race because, she argues, until there is a nominee, she still has a chance of winning it. Her surrogates have been saying since before Pennsylvania that Obama can't "close the deal," and thus has serious questions to answer - and so Clinton could (and should) go on to be that nominee.

So she won't leave because she has a chance of winning the nomination, and she's winning the nomination because she won't leave.

The argument they are still making below the fold...

Via AmericaBlog today:

But Howard Wolfson, a senior Clinton adviser, struck a feisty note on Fox, saying that if Mr. Obama wanted Mrs. Clinton out of the race, there was a simple way to ensure that: "Beat her. Beat her in West Virginia, beat her in Puerto Rico, beat her in Kentucky." Mrs. Clinton, of New York, is favored in those coming contests; Mr. Obama holds an edge in the others, in Oregon, Montana and South Dakota.

How about this? How about if CLINTON wants a way to be the nominee, she beats Obama? Beats him within the rules and metrics everyone agreed to and that she had every advantage with from the very beginning. Beats him by showing leadership rather than simply claiming she's a leader.

Sigh.

He. Has. Beaten. Her.