a hearty good luck to Hillary Clinton.  I hope she pulls this out, it'll be EXTREMELY gratifying to see.

In fairness, the barely winning vs. trouncing meme isn't an example of bias (of which there has been plenty) its a case of mathmetical fact, Clinton's win's have been by and large, close ones, while Obama's have been blowouts.

So many people I know feel the same frustration, but things are beginning to turn around.  There's a good article at realclearpolitics this morning called "The Obama Delusion."  I think people are beginning to get it.  We have a couple of weeks for OH and TX, and then about 6 weeks for PA.  We need to do everything we can to turn this around.  I'm not giving up.  I know Hillary won't.  I urge her supports to keep going.  She's got a small deficit to overcome, and she can do it--she's done it before.  Contributing would also help, so her ads aren't smothered by his.  

your condescending attitude would be welcomed with OPEN arms by Obama would it??

Will winning that LONG LIST of states that you mention help him in the general if he CAN"T win over the big states the democrats have a CHANCE at actually taking???  Here's some MATH for you:

to quote Big Tent Democrat at Talk Left:

"California - 55 EVs. Texas - 34 EVs. (A GOP stronghold) New York - 31 EVs. (A Dem stronghold) Florida - 27 EVs. (Thanks Howard and Donna.) Illinois - 21 EVs. (A Dem stronghold.) Pennsylvania - 21 EVs. Ohio - 20 EVs. Georgia - 15 EVS. (a GOP stronghold.) North Carolina - 15 EVs. (a GOP stronghold) New Jersey - 15 EVs. Virginia - 13 EVs. Mass - 12 EVs.

In my view, Clinton has a perceived advantage, for many reasons including the DNC's idiotic behavior, in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey and Arkansas. That adds up to 144 EVs.

Obama NEEDS to prove he can win electoral vote rich states that Dems can win, like Ohio and Pennsylvania. This election will NOT be won in Utah, Alabama and North Dakota. "...

and Greuben, your attitude frankly SUCKS.  I'm not going to respond anymore to belittling comments....

You're missing the story. It's not a story of a woman who was mistreated by a sexist media. That's just a minor subplot at best. People really don't watch as much MSNBC as you think they do. Matt Drudge may run Chris Matthew's world, but he doesn't actually run the real world.

The story of Clinton's defeat is the story of a woman who hired incompetent and short sighted campaign managers who ran a big-state only inevitablity campaign and couldn't adjust effectively on the fly. She thought California + New York + superdelegates = win. It's also the story of a woman who decided to wait until 2008 instead of going for it in 2004. She thought voters wanted to hear a harsh reality check instead of a little inspiration and uplift. She decided to go for big donors instead of small donors, big blue states instead of all 50. These are all very real and very important tactical errors that she's responsible for. The mean things people say on TV or on the internet are inconsequential compared to the strategic mistakes her campaign has made. She's done better than any other female candidate in history and she and all her supporters should be proud of her. She beat Biden, Richardson, Dodd, and Edwards. She's still a powerful senator from New York and she's still young enough to run again in 8 years. And, she could still pull this one out. It's not over yet.

You know HRC is the big bad incumbent because -- say it with me -- that's what Mark Penn and she decided to run as! Inevitability, competence, establishment support, experience... shes the incumbent because that's how she cast herself for months and months.

We are taking her as the image she built up over years.... how is that wrong?

I truely feel sorry for the Hillary supporters who have been let down by the campaign's staggering ineptitude.  When the race started, my wife and I were rooting for BHO, even though she was "the heir-apparent".  When he faied to get traction nation-wide over the summer, Clinton's people didn't give him the time of day.  But in the fall, when he started his ascent, she paid a little more attention.  Right before Iowa, she tried to deliver the knock-out blow, but could not.  It was then that the race was over, but her people couldn't see it.  Now here we are; as sweet as this is, I really hoped that this would turn out differently.  As it stands not, there is no way they could share a ticket, which would be a good thing for the party.  She has also done major damage to her standing in the Senate.  We'll see how this plays out, but from where I stand, she has no one to blame but herself.

Obviously you chose 16 points, instead of, say, 10, to help your case.

The overall popular vote totals are still quite close.

I would be OK if she lost out in a fair fight.

But this is not a fair fight to the slightest.  Maybe it's because of her gender, or maybe it's because of who she is.

- Media bias against her.  she didn't get a fair coverage.  her pictures on the front page always deliberately made she looks ugly and abnormal.  while Obama's picture always looks calm and collect.

• GOP shadow vote in the DEM open primary
  
• DNC party create a mess that clips away her base.
  
• Obama spread flyer dishonestly attack her records, and went uncheck by the media.

So she has been hold at her ankles while trading punches with Obama.   It's not a fair fight.

Hey there, Maole,

So I realize you wrote this diary before I discovered this site (which I only happened upon as I was discovering how these ratings work tonight and what they represent...so a thank you too!  ), but after reading this, I just had to comment.  This was a beautiful diary, despite the harsh reality of the truth of your words, that calls it as I've so often seen it!  Hillary Clinton is in fact blazing a trail...but unfortunately, you also call it very well in noting she's getting blazed by the trail.  I could go on and on in agreement with the many statements and examples you made within, but suffice it to say, it touched me seeing my feelings expressed so very well. And something in either your title or the diary itself, I'm not really sure, brought to mind a few images that seem somewhat relevant.  

First, it reminded me of the 91-year-old African American woman who attended the Texas Town Hall Hillary gave (along with her 101-year old friend).  That woman's speech brought me to tears when she talked about praying for Hillary since first meeting her during Bill's campaign--the same woman who in an earlier interview I'd seen with her on our local news talked about her earlier and ongoing work for civil rights...a fight where she undoubtedly saw many injustices being doled out.  But then it also reminded me of another trailblazer.  So I went looking and found this quote from Rosa Parks in her book "My Story,"

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

Although this is kind of flipped around, I believe the same courage and audacity that Rose Parks showed that day on that bus, when she decided not to stand and move out of the way, is the same courage and audacity and tirelessness that Hillary has and is showing on this campaign by continuing to stand and moving along that path that she has already carved in history.  She has shown courage throughout her public life, and she has backed that courage up with real actions that, as you note, anybody who truly looks at the facts will realize have been so helpful to this country and to this world.  We would be privileged to have her for our President--and I only hope we are lucky enough to have that realization!  I for one believe that just as Rosa Parks carved a new path that day so long ago, Hillary is carving a new path today.  It is extremely disheartening to see the treatment she receives--but God bless her, she keeps standing and goes on in spite of all the adversity she is facing.  So while she may have been blazed by the trail, and will undoubtedly continue facing such hurdles, as each day passes I feel more and more confident that she will in fact be blazing a trail to the White House soon.  Thank you for writing this diary!