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Posted
Monday, June 02, 2008 11:24 AM
| By
Christopher Beam
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Hillary Clinton
scored a win and a loss this weekend. She claimed a 2-to-1 victory in
Puerto Rico on Sunday but netted only 24 delegates from Florida and
Michigan in the decision passed down by the DNC's Rules and Bylaws
Committee. Yet neither of these events changes the landscape of the
race. Obama remains fewer than 45 delegates away from the new magic
number of 2,118, which keeps Clinton's chances at a near-conclusive 0.4 percent.
Clinton won
the Puerto Rico primary in just about every possible way. Women and
men, young and old, rich and poor, educated and unschooled—all favored
Clinton. (The only demographic that favored Obama was people who
sympathized with indicted Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila,
who endorsed Obama.) An early estimate showed Clinton winning 35
delegates to Obama's 15, with five still unaccounted for. The Clinton
campaign is spinning the results to suggest Obama has a "problem" attracting Hispanics.
But on Saturday, Clinton had problems of her own. ...
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