Can Hillary win without blowing up the party? Update: Hillary by 12 in Indiana? Update: Within three in NC?
What do you think?
Hotair-Sure, as long as Obama plays the good soldier and urges his supporters to unite behind her, but the longer the race drags on the harder it’ll be to get them to do it. Note the trend in this question from the new NYT/CBS poll:
Over the past week, people backing her because they dislike Obama are down 75%; over the past month, she’s up six points among people supporting her simply because they like her better. Meanwhile, he’s lost 13 points since the Wright presser in the “strongly favor” category while the number who support him because they dislike Hillary has almost tripled. That’s the first data set I can recall from any poll where his sore-loser contingent looks bigger potentially than hers. Why the sudden sharp spike in anti-Hillary sentiment, though? I can only guess it’s because they finally think she’s a legitimate threat to take this thing away from him — a perception borne out by the trend in another question from the poll:
