Having Your Clinton and Obama Too!

Hillary's not about to give up, and her campaign is making their case to the media and the party:

ABC News' David Chalian Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton's two top strategists attended a breakfast with political reporters in Washington this morning to make the case for her continued candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

"We are not oblivious to the environment in which we are operating," said strategist Geoff Garin.

He went on to compare the contest to a tennis match -- of course, a best of five set men's tennis match.

"If someone was down a few games in the third set, I think you would be disappointed if the person walked off the court," Garin said.

"And sometimes even when people are down two sets to love and down a couple of games in the third set, they end up winning by the fifth set," he added.

Communications Director Howard Wolfson and Garin made a two-fold electability argument they hope the remaining uncommitted superdelegates will find compelling enough for Sen. Clinton to win their support and upend the nomination race.

The campaign looked at all the most recent general election match-up polls in the 50 states and claimed Clinton leads Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., by 42 electoral votes compared to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., trailing McCain by 8 electoral votes.

They also cited Florida, Ohio, and Missouri as the key differences that tipped the map to Sen. Clinton's favor.

The other argument put forth by the struggling Clinton campaign Friday was an attempt to paint her as the stronger candidate for critical down ballot races.

And how about this:

The Clinton campaign releases that, "several members of Congress released a letter today to other Democrats touting their support for Hillary, saying she is the strongest candidate to have at the top of the ticket in the fall: '[W]e are convinced that Hillary Clinton has the vision, skills and commitment to make the changes our country needs. As Democrats who have run and won in competitive Congressional districts and battleground states, we believe that Hillary is best positioned to successfully lead the Democratic ticket in districts and states like ours around the country.' (Read the letter.)

This is a pretty blatant attempt to pursuade the party that if they want Obama so much, he'd be better as second fiddle (VP). She's making the case for herself at the top of the ticket and overruling the voters. The thing is, she's probably right. She probably would be the stronger general election candidate against McCain, but Obama as VP wouldn't hold the various coalitions that make up his support (eggheads, blacks and youths). They'd all get mad, stomp their feet, and quick possibly stay home or vote for McCain just to get even with Hillary.

The chaos continues.