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A rare bright spot for Hillary

James Forsyth

Thursday, 14th February 2008

The Clinton meltdown storyline is in full swing. The Wall Street Journal has a blow by blow account of a bitter row between Clinton advisors, James Carville—the star of Bill’s 1992 campaign who is still extremely close to the Clinton camp—has declared that Hillary is toast if she doesn’t win both Texas and Ohio while the Obama camp is spinning that in terms of delegates, Hillary can’t catch him now.

There is, however, some good news for Hillary today—which her press office has eagerly blasted out to reporters. New polls show her with large leads in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 16 and 21 points respectively. Now, we will see in the coming days how much of that lead is soft and will peel off to Obama. But it does act as a reminder that she is not done yet.

These polls also contain encouraging news for McCain. They show him beating both Democrats, albeit narrowly, in the battleground states of Ohio and Florida.