And so we go on...

Hilary Clinton made what her aides are sure to term as a 'comeback' last night, winning the Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island primaries.

Barack Obama won Vermont and seems on the way to winning the Texas caucus (which apportions a third of the delegates).

Honestly, I was hoping that last night would have been the knock-out punch for the Clinton campaign, because I am tired of this race dragging on, especially in the face of the fact that the Republicans last night all but confirmed John McCain as their nominee as he passed 1191 delegate threshold and Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race.

It is not so much the race dragging on that bothers me as HOW the race is going to drag on. The Clintonistas have been trying and will continue to try every dirty trick in their arsenal, regardless of the fact that such undignified scrapping hurts the party's chances in the general elections. I know Hilary's campaign strategy for the generals was always built on a theory of 50 + 1 - as in, just get your own camp in your corner and scrape another 1%. They had to go that way since nearly half of the country (about 48%) say they will never vote for her.

Hence their "kitchen sink" strategy puzzles me because it seems that they are banking on her getting the nomination with this same divisive, abrasive strategy. Even if they do manage to get their own candidate through, how do they expect to get the 50 when they have alienated a large portion of the Democratic camp? Forget the 1! I mean this is a group that goes out of their way to insult and belittle the people who are voting for Obama - I have never seen anything like it - it's one thing to insult your opponents but why insult the voters - especially those on your team?

I predict that even if Hilary wins the nomination, that she will not be able to muster enough support from her 50 to win the general election. It's not like she can depend on new voters, Independent voters or cross-over voters either - those people are with Obama on the one side and McCain on the other.

Anyhow, this is probably all still a moot point, for as of this morning, she is still behind in the delegate count - according to CNN's estimate, 1365 to his 1451. Of that, she is behind by 130 votes in the pledged (popular) delegate count and leads by a mere 44 in the superdelegate count - and superdelegates are by no means a done deal, unlike the pledged delegates.

She was already so far behind Obama that she needs to win by huge margins just about everywhere to surpass him - either that or depend on the superdelegates to flout the will of the people. Good luck with either of those strategies.

So on we go...