(h/t to zwerlstfor reminding me to write this)
If you're as pathetic as I am, you keep cable news on all day while you work. Watching the coverage from cable news, especially CNN and MSNBC, I've found it curious that there has seemed to be a shift in coverage over the last month or so.
As Senator Obama racked up a dozen straight wins, I remember both John King and Chuck Todd standing in front of maps, playing with vote numbers in future states, concluding that the race was pretty much lost for Hillary Clinton, at least as far as the math was concerned. As far as I can tell, nothing in the math has changed. If anything, Obama has shown the ability to wipe out Clinton gains, both by winning votes after Ohio and Texas, and by far out-pacing her in the current race for superdelegates.
Yet, rather than report that things are looking more bleak, CNN and MSNBC seem to be pushing the new meme, that this race is essentially a tie.
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