A source forwards me the talking points that the Hillary campaign sent out to surrogates today instructing them on how to talk to the media about Super Tuesday. One jumps out...

Daily Talking Points -- Super Tuesday -- February 5, 2008

CLOSING ARGUMENT:

READY ON DAY 1 TO SOLVE OUR URGENT PROBLEMS

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would change history by becoming President.

The real question for voters today is this: Who can actually deliver the solutions our country needs?

The "day one" experience argument, obviously, has been a Hillary talking point since the last Ice Age. But here it's being put in the context of an acknowledgment that both she and Obama would change history by becoming president.

The idea seems to be to neutralize the sense of history that's been built up around Obama's candidacy by pointing out the obvious: The election of the first female president would make history, too.

It's an argument that the Hillary campaign has failed to make as forcefully as it might have. Camp Hillary was caught off guard by the surprising success Obama and his campaign have had in making his supporters sense that they're caught up in a historical movement and even feel like they have a stake in the making of history. One wonders whether it's too late for the Hillary campaign to counter this.