How will Obama shift the story?
Straight after its shock defeat in New Hampshire the Obama campaign rolled out a series of impressive endorsements--including John Kerry's--which helped move the story on from Clinton’s win there. So the question is what does the Obama campaign have up its sleeve this morning? We know that they haven’t declared their February fund raising total—thought to be a whopping $50 million, $15 million more than Clinton raised and $38 million more than McCain pulled in—there is also word that they have a whole bunch of super delegates ready to roll out.
Both stories would help in getting the press to focus on the delegate math, which still heavily favours Obama, but Clinton is likely to ride this wave of favourable coverage for a while. Expect her campaign to start openly calling for re-votes in Florida and Michigan, two states who have had their delegates taken away by the Democratic party for voting earlier than they were allowed to, and to claim that Obama is trying to disenfranchise voters if he won’t agree.
Clinton is still behind. But last night gave her a slim opening and we can expect her to do everything she can to try and take advantage of it.