Wow, remember four years ago? Dean was way ahead, then came in 3rd in Iowa and wound up withdrawing after a terrible finish in Wisconsin. This time around Clinton was way ahead came in 3rd in Iowa and says that Texas and Ohio will bring her back up in the delegate race for the Democratic nomination.
UPDATE: Some of the latest in Wisconsin detailed in this AP article: Clinton Makes Fresh Push in Wisconsin
Yet Clinton has now endured 8 consecutive losses, and anyone that knows politics knows that momentum is a huge factor to be ignored at your own peril. Just ask Presidential hopeful Guiliani! Unfortunately for Clinton she is already being compared to Guiliani in this way. What happened in Virginia must have been a real wake up call for the Clinton camp because suddenly, many of the groups they had counted on to stays competitive started drifting away. Women, older voters and "Dunkin Donut" types had previously seemed like solid Clinton voters, started to drift into the Obama camp. The earlier race-based rational for Obama’s success that some had put forward seem even more stupid (and to some offensive) after the huge number of states won, and the margins he won by. The demographics of all of these states simply do not support such an argument, and in fact many are questioning why the MSM is choosing to focus on dividing the electorate up into little pieces so much instead of focusing on the issues themselves.
Given this set of circumstances, I think that Wisconsin, not the hugely important states of Texas and Ohio will decide whether Clinton is still in this race for real. If Clinton can’t hold her own here in Wisconsin (and the polls seem to be moving against her) how does she expect to hang on for weeks longer and have a chance?
Much like the record-setting snow that has changed the visible landscape of the upper-midwest this year, the Obama storm has given the Clintons a new challenge to deal with, and it is not clear even their well-oiled machine is any match.