End Of The Line?

Hillary Clinton loaned her campaign $6.4 million dollars last month to compete in Pennsylvania. To finish out the string she'd probably have to loan herself just as much. The outcome last night will make it very hard to raise money.

Before Clinton sycophants claim that she's being pushed out of the race for financial reasons, that's how pretty much every Presidential race ends. And 50 states NEVER get their say. Under these new rules everyone has to get a chance to vote and everything, but that's not actually how Presidential nomination fights work. When you're broke, you have to get out. And that's the most likely scenario.

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers acknowledged that the results of the primaries were far less than they had hoped, and said they were likely to face new pleas even from some of their own supporters for her to quit the race. They said they expected fund-raising to become even harder now; one adviser said the campaign was essentially broke, and several others refused to say whether Mrs. Clinton had lent the campaign money from her personal account to keep it afloat.

The advisers said they were dispirited over the loss in North Carolina, after her campaign — working off a shoestring budget as spending outpaces fund-raising — decided to allocate millions of dollars, some key operatives and full days of the candidate and her husband there.

It does look like Clinton is keeping the pretense of a continued campaign going, adding a campaign event in West Virginia today. She ought to - she's going to win West Virginia big next week, and then Kentucky in two weeks, while losing Oregon - but her campaign will take on elements in the media narrative of the Huckabee campaign circa Texas and Ohio - playing out the string, no negative ads or negative words, just a dance with destiny.

UPDATE: Wes Clark is urging Hillary to drop out.

UPDATE II: Let's also note, loudly, that the gas tax holiday pander didn't work. Americans are smarter than politicians and the media think, particularly now when there are so many more options for information available to them.