Clinton: Damn The Torpedos, Full Speed Ahead

After a split decision in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primaries--Senator Hillary Clinton narrowly defeating Senator Barack Obama in Indiana, but losing big to Obama in North Carolina--the situation remains the same. Obama still leads in the popular vote and in the delegate count.

According to CNN.com, Obama has 1.836 delegates, 155 more than clinton. By the time the primaries end in June, neither candidate will have enough to reach the 2,025 mark to win the nomination without the help of so-called "superdelegates"--the party officials and others who vote during the national convention in August. Clinton leads in that department, with 280 remaining uncommitted. But some pundits claim she's losing that battle to Obama, too.

So why does the Senator from New York insist on continuing? Having failed to cut into Obama's lead, Clinton is campaigning in the remaining six contests (West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota), which have a grand total of 217 pledged delegates.

Is Clinton waiting for another skeleton in Obama's closet to rival the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? Another statement from the Illinois senator proving he's out of touch with those who don't drink lattes or live in McMansions? Can Clinton convince the Democratic Party to allow her victories in Florida and Michigan to stand, even though their delegates were ruled ineligible because their states' primaries were held too early? Can she raise enough money to continue? Something? Anything?

Of course, there's always the possibility that Clinton could continue to lose votes because of her stand on gas tax holidays (which everyone agrees is a stupid idea and doesn't save all that much money), and on what she would do to Iran if they so much as muss a hair on Israel's shoulders. They make her sound like--a Republican?!

We were going to title this post "It's Over, Hillary". But Senator Clinton has proved so many times how unsinkable she is that, in the words of Yogi Berra, it's not over 'till it's over.