Obama Wins in VA and Hillary Goes to TX

Well that was fast, and when the polls close in MD and DC, it's just as likely to be as decisive as VA. Get used to seeing pictures like this.

Barack Obama won the Virginia primary Tuesday, scoring an initial victory as he squared off with Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Chesapeake primary and Clinton tried to end a string of Obama wins that have put her campaign on the defensive.

And where is Hillary Clinton? Gone to Texas, to build a firewall:

...So where will she be? In El Paso, Texas, for a "Solutions for America" rally. And where will she be tomorrow? In McAllen, Robstown, and San Antonio, for more rallies ahead of the March 4 Texas primary. It's more evidence that Sen. Clinton is going to bet everything on stopping Obama in what her spokesman Howard Wolfson yesterday called "the all-important states of Texas and Ohio." To some observers, the Texas/Ohio strategy bears a resemblance to Rudy Giuliani's disastrous Florida strategy – at the very least, it's not the product of a winning, confident campaign...

The comparison to Rudy is apt. And she I'm sure is well aware how things worked out for him in Florida. I live in Ohio, and while she is leading now, we are going to get three weeks of negative news about the Clinton campaign implosion. I'm not sure her numbers here can survive that.

So the fact that she is embarking on this strategy means that all other options were worse. Let that sink in for a moment.