Clinton: Tide Is Turning. Obama: We Closed The Gap.
With nearly all the results in, it looks like Hillary Clinton will finish just shy of double digits, what Andrew Sullivan called Sunday the “nightmare scenario.”
Sullivan, an Obama supporter, described a potential nine point win as “not enough to alter the dynamics of the race in her favor, but enough to keep the agony going.”
Well, agony or not, the Clinton camp will fight on.
In her victory speech to supporters in Philadelphia, Clinton claimed the “tide is turning.”
Harkening back to her Rocky speech, Clinton said, “some people counted me out and said to drop out — but the American people don’t quit and they deserve a president who doesn’t quit either.”
If top Clinton advisers are to be believed, the people responded with their credit cards. One campaign official told Marc Ambinder the campaign raised $100,000 in 20 minutes Tuesday night online.
But while Obama made clear earlier Tuesday there was no “moral victory” to be had in defeat, he did claim some success in his speech from Evansville, Indiana after the results came in.
After congratulating Clinton, Obama said, “there were a lot of folks who didn
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