A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days

The Obama campaign has gotten itself a big-time endorsement from Senator Edward Kennedy, an endorsement that constitutes a huge blow to the Clinton campaign, especially given the fact that the Clintons positioned themselves as the inheritors of the Kennedy legacy back in the 1990s. I guess that pictures don't possess the sentimental value that they once had.

But let us remember that Super Duper Tuesday will be a tough fight, to say the least. And just as I expected Hillary Clinton to rise from the dead after Obama's big win in Iowa, so do I expect her to rise from the dead on Super Duper Tuesday. That doesn't mean that Obama also will not do well. But it will likely mean that Hillary Clinton will keep herself in the game as a viable and formidable contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

At the end of the day, I still expect her to be the nominee. It is just clear that the path to the nomination will be a trying and a bloody one. And who is to say how motivated independents and Obama Democrats will be to come out and vote for her in the fall, especially given the shenanigans in which the Clintons have been involved as they seek desperately to stop Barack Obama?