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Blow, Art Director at National Geographic -and why not? (h/t again to the sharp-eyed BDBlue) What just weeks earlier had looked to the Obama camp like an easy path to victory has been derailed following his confidence-shattering defeat in Indiana, a state conventional wisdom and his own campaign had projected he would win, and his disastrous showing in Pennsylvania in spite of outspending Clinton 3:1. The North Carolina win was expected, with a demographic that heavily favored Obama’s race-based campaign style, and is of no value strategically since it came in a state

an extremely close race that could go either way. Obama has the advantage of being from Illinois, next door, and he should do well in Indianapolis and in the northwest, near Chicago. Hillary, meanwhile, should do well everywhere else. Posts today by Balz at WaPo and Scheiber at TNR have prompted me to delve a bit deeper into the nuances of the state: Media coverage of the Obama-Clinton race has been poor -- I hardly need to tell you that -- but it's much worse than the obvious decontextualizing and

trail, where he often seems like a college professor. [Chicago Tribune] • Dan Balz says Obama can prove his detractors wrong with a strong showing in Indiana, thereby proving that he's able to win over those pesky working-class white voters. [Trail/WP] • Similarly, John F. Harris and David Paul Kuhn think Obama will face tough questions about his electability if he wins the nomination without winning in Indiana. By winning Indiana, he can show that those states he won with broad coalitions, like

The Upshot of Indiana's Cherry Red-ness Dan Balz's take on the Indiana primary got me thinking about a subtle advantage Obama has in the state: Even though it's somewhat similar demographically to two of the states he's lost by large margins--Ohio and Pennsylvania--it

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