Hillary Clinton needs an '07 Rockies run
By: Stephen Keating5/9/2008 - 4:52pm
- Hillary Clinton needs some of Matt Holliday's magic, as when he slid home with the winning run to cinch the wild-card playoff spot for the Colorado Rockies in 2007. (Glenn Asakawa / The Denver Post)
Hillary Clinton's odds of winning the Democratic presidential nomination are akin to the improbable run of the Colorado Rockies into the World Series last year.
That's according to a Chicago Tribune story today that used baseball as a metaphor - and quoted a Denver-based consultant - to explain the state of the race between Clinton and Barack Obama.
"The Colorado Rockies won 21 of 22 games last year to claim the National League wild card and roll into the World Series. A Middlebury College professor put the odds of that feat at more than 190,000-1," wrote Jim Tankersley. "Clinton 'is probably facing something of that magnitude' to win the nomination, said Rick Ridder, a Democratic political consultant—and Rockies season-ticket holder—in Denver, who directed Clinton's Arizona primary campaign."
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Clinton out of the game
Speculation aside, Clinton has been nothing but a useful foil for the media. Her ideas are over-baked. Her character is beyond redemption. And her husband is a liability.