COLUMBUS, Ohio — Taking advantage of his financial edge, Senator Barack Obama is buying large amounts of advertising and building extensive get-out-the-vote operations in an effort to end Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy with twin defeats Tuesday in Ohio and Texas.I feel sorry for the TV viewers in Ohio and Texas who are undoubtedly being constantly bombarded by annoying ads. That will end, for a little while anyway, after Tuesday. We may actually be able to enjoy a brief respite from the rigors of the campaign once we get down to our two finalists.
The intensity of Mr. Obama’s drive is especially apparent on television, where he has outspent Mrs. Clinton by nearly two to one in the two states. That is helping him eat deeply into double-digit leads she held in polls just weeks ago.
But after a month in which she raised $32 million — a remarkable amount, but still less than the $50 million or more brought in by Mr. Obama — Mrs. Clinton is fighting back.
The expenditures of the two Democratic presidential candidates, combined with a travel schedule that sent them and their surrogates from border to border in Texas and Ohio, reflect the expectation that the voting this week may be climactic. Mrs. Clinton’s advisers have suggested that she will bow out of the race if she falters in either state, after 11 straight losses.
Should the voters of Texas and Ohio choose to keep Hillary alive, we can expect this nonsense to continue at least through Pennsylvanis on April 22. Part of me hopes that Hillary will still think herself viable on March 5th so the bloodletting on the Dem side will contine.
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