A case against the calls
The last week has seen its fair share of calls from both independent observers and outright surrogates calling for an end to the campaign of Hillary Clinton. These have come from across the spectrum – columnists citing simply insurmountable odds, former candidates suggesting that math was against her and one certain senator stating that her time was simply up.
Asked how he felt, Barack Obama has personally demurred, responding that it was up to Clinton and she should run as long as she likes.
Regardless of the ridiculous obstacles she faces, captured brutally in Slate’s Hillary Death Watch, which began tabulating her campaign’s dismal odds this week (currently holding at 9.3%), it seems that Barack’s response may be the best way to respond to the growing chorus for her withdrawal.
This seems clear when considering two factors.
The first comes with how Clinton and Co. can spin it, which, from experience, is usually in her favor. Within hours of the first rounds of calls, the Clinton campaign already had fundraising letters out casting her as the beleaguered underdog who was fighting tooth and nail against the world. This role only got sweeter as Clinton herself redefined the calls for her to drop out as attempts by Obama himself to stop people from voting in the remaining ten states.
This was a familiar narrative that Clinton rolled out when she started voicing protest about the Florida and Michigan votes, never mind that no one made a peep when the states lost their seats last year.
She took this message to local TV stations in a number of the ten remaining primary states, casting herself as the one who would fight for the votes of the disenfranchised and Obama as nothing less than a jack-booted riot police brigade ready to beat down old women and children at their local polling place.
The second factor is that for the sake of party unity, something so many critics have cited as the very reason Clinton needs to drop out before a vicious summer season, the calls need to cease because she has to come to this decision by herself. Anything less could be easily misunderstood as an unfair attack before the contest has been officially decided. Despite the shifting polls and daunting mathematics, a forced exit could be seen by Clinton supporters as an attack – an attack that could have repercussions long into the general election.
The last thing that needs to happen when this whole season is resolved is for either side to feel slighted, perceived or otherwise and a forced exit would has the potential to do just that.

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