The media have hailed Barack Obama's victory in NC and his very good showing in Indiana (although he ultimately lost to Clinton who won the primary with by a narrow margin of 22, 000 votes, i.e. roughly 2%) as the critical turn in the race" (NPR) or even the end of the race (MSNBC):
The NYTimes declared that Obama had won "decisively" and Clinton "barely".
The media are interpreting this as the sign that Obama was capable of overcoming the Wright scandal and that therefor his candidacy is truly viable. Even the Drudge Report presents Obama as the sure nominee. I'm inclined to think that this is because the media, like all of us, are tiring a bi of the race : they want it to be done with.
The right wing National Review has a more moderate and perhaps more biased analysis of the situation and highlights that Clinton does not want to quit the race, whereas other media present the NY Senator's options as dwindling.
Sen. Clinton is still insisting that Florida and Michigan delegates should be seated and allowed to vote at the convention, she won these two States, although no candidate campaigned there and Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan. By insisting so forcefully on this point, the Clinton campaign is presenting an potential Obama nomination as un-democratic since millions of voters in two key States were disenfranchised as a consequence of the DNC's decision not to allow them to hold their primaries before Super Tuesday.
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