The Morning Roundup
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NBC's "Today"
-Chuck Todd said the key reason Obama can't knock her out is Clinton's support from white women. "They have stuck with her through thick and thin," he said. Todd noted that Clinton needs to do better with younger, upscale women to achieve the 51% coalition she would need to win any state she enters. On Clinton's argument that she's winning the popular vote, Todd said of the superdelegates he's talked to "Most ... think it's completely ludicrous to count Michigan."
CBS's "The Early Show"
-Former Edwards top aide Joe Trippi, asked whether super delegates can go Clinton's way, said "I don't think so. If she can win Indiana and upset Obama in a state he's supposed to win in North Carolina...some of those super delegates could start to move her way."
MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Obama communication director Robert Gibbs: "We never talked about the fact that we we're going to try to win Pennsylvania," he said. "We said we would do well there."
"I would expect Hillary Clinton would be able to win a state like North Carolina," he said. "It fits in exactly the criteria [of a big state] she laid out a few weeks ago."
-NBC's Todd: "North Carolina is looming as this giant obstacle to whether you take this idea that Hillary Clinton has as shot" at winning the popular vote (however one may define that). "This is a big state. [Obama] can wipe away any gains [Hillary's] made."
-Clinton supporter Lanny Davis: "The only question of the day is who can beat George Bush," he said. (Um...) "And the superdelegates and the national convention delegates are not a suicide pact. If they see Barack Obama cannot carry working-class Democrat senior-citizens -- our core Democratic base -- in the swing states ... the states that you got to win" he will not win.
(Gregory Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Roundup.)
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