http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/opinion/08herbert.htmlSenator Clinton’s supporters are hoping for a miracle, hoping she can win big in Pennsylvania, run the table after that, and somehow seize a nomination that looks more and more like it is going to Mr. Obama. If that doesn’t happen, an awful lot of white working-class voters across the country will be faced with a stark choice: voting for a Democrat who happens to be black, or voting to continue policies that most no longer believe are in their best economic interests.
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The table is set for the Democrats. Nearly all the issues are lined up in their favor. The national economy has cratered. The war in Iraq, after all these years, is still not going well. The Republicans have chosen a candidate who is neither charismatic nor inspirational, and who certainly does not represent change in what has shaped up to be a change election.
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What the Democrats have to worry about are fractures within.
The big question is whether the losers in the fight for the nomination will wholeheartedly support the winners. The party was unable to get its act together in 1968 and unite behind Hubert Humphrey, thus opening the door for Richard Nixon. The ramifications of that bitter election are still being felt.
This year, whether the nominee is Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton, the candidate will have to shoulder some pretty heavy negatives in the general election.
If the Clinton camp is unwilling to go to the mat for an Obama candidacy, or vice versa,
it will be the Republicans who, despite the long odds, will be kicking back in the White House yet again next January.
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