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Three out of four for Clinton?

• Justin Webb
• 4 Mar 08, 11:14 PM GMT

Is this fight going on - as Clinton strategist Mark Penn has promised - all the way to the Convention?

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ has just heard from a very senior Clinton source that they are expecting to win three out of four contests (Obama gets Vermont and that's it). There's no way of verifying that expectation - and it's worth pointing out that the caucuses in Texas have not even opened as I write this.

But plainly there are hopes rising in her camp that this is not the execution night that her opponents had planned for her.

Meanwhile anyone thinking that the press gets privileged access to all of this history-in-the-making should take a look at ...

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It ends in a cliffhanger...

• Justin Webb
• 4 Mar 08, 07:17 AM GMT

HOUSTON, TEXAS: A not hugely attended rally in Houston caps it off - the smaller numbers perhaps because it was late at night in the centre of the city.

Obama rambled a bit then caught the mood fantastically with his story about how he came upon the slogan "fired up and ready to go".

"Let's go out and change the world" were the last words he spoke…

So the big day arrives and this is the

And this from one who knows:

"Obama can lose everything on Tuesday and still win the nomination," wrote Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. "Clinton could win all four states and still lose the nomination. But a politically consequential victory for Clinton requires wins in both Texas and Ohio."

The full article is

How apt that this vertiginous roller coaster ride ends - to mix metaphors - with a cliffhanger...

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