Hillary: Tuesday's Voting Will Be A "Game Changer"
Hillary, breaking with the time-honored (and unbearably hackneyed) tradition of depressing expectations in advance of elections, says on the trail today that she extremely bullish on her chances this coming Tuesday
"This primary election on Tuesday is a game changer. This is going to make a huge difference in what happens going forward. The entire country -- probably even a lot of the world -- is looking to see what North Carolina decides."
My understanding of the thinking inside Camp Hillary is that their best hope has been that Tuesday's voting in North Carolina and Indiana will end up effectively being a wash. In other words, Hillaryland insiders are hoping that keeping it close enough in North Carolina while winning Indiana would limit Obama's popular vote gains enough to make a popular vote win (counting Florida) still within the realm of possibility.
Keeping it close in North Carolina would also allow Hillary to argue that not only has she bested him in big industrial states, but she's also proven she can compete on his turf, too. That would allow her to further the "Obama keeps proving to be unexpectedly weak" storyline.
Predicting that Tuesday's voting will prove a "game-changer," however, would seem to be inflating expecations well beyond what I've understood to be Hillaryland's best case scenario for May 6th.
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