An average piece of analysis about Hillary's current dilemma--she keeps winning, but she can't win, says the author. I read that somewhere else before...

The argument is familiar in many ways, the math doesn’t work for Clinton and her claim to be winning the popular vote is a stretch, at best, since Florida and Michigan votes do not count (Obama wasn’t even on the Michigan ballot) and that issue is apparently settled, there will not be a re-vote in those states. Charlie Cook’s point that Clinton can’t really quit as long as she is winning major primaries supposes she is willing to quit. Isn’t it more likely that the Clintons will go for a brokered win at the convention as long as her financial donors don’t withdraw their support? At this point it would seem that all Democrats are in purgatory, not just Hillary.

Could one reporter do this exact story only change the subject of the story. Charlie Cook has been promoting this basic story line since January with mild editing. Neither candidate will win the nomination outright without Super delegates. Why then does every story end with only one candidate singled out for purgatory. It is probably pretty hot as well when you can't win the big states, are behind with the majority of voters in the Democratic nomination process and are clinging to the prayer that two of the biggest states won't have their votes counted in Denver. Doesn't really sound all that pleasant, but Charlie Cook never mentions it.

Weak and over-used analysis that leaves out the facts that Obama significantly narrowed Clinton's lead in PA, that MI and FL aren't to be included in either the delegate or popular vote counts, and that his discussion of changing the rules for 2012 is entirely imaginary at this point in time - and irrelevant to 2008. And yes, Hillary could have chosen to say that she didn't gain enough delegates in PA to justify continuing to stay in the race, or to say that she would drop out for the good of the party, or to say that since her lead dropped from 26% to 9% she wasn't really making progress, nor even holding her ground. Weak journalism.