Yes...because of this video.

i don't blame her for sticking in until the 4th. If those states vote barack, essentially, that's game over... the people will have spoken, and that would be ripping apart the democratic party if she chose to take it all the way to the convention... but she would look a lot more like a gracious loser if she dropped out now...

The poll number speak for themselves. In the current system, she lacks support to continue. In a direct vote system, she would still have reason to remain in the game. Whether the system requires changing is a debate for a different question.

She should drop out. The entire primary process is a joke. There's not much democratic about it. The longer she stays in, the longer she makes our system look bad. Besides, she would be a horrible president. She's a liar and a crook, corrupt as hell. She doesn't care about the American people, only her own power and wallet.

I'd like to think that I can look at this objectively, and say "yes", that regardless of who I support (Obama), Hillary's negative comments about Obama will either hurt him in the general election if he's the nominee, or hurt people's opinion of her if she manages to take it. Either way, the Democrats will deal with the consequences in November, besides giving McCain time to build up support.

Yes. Not only is she unlikely to win the nomination, but she will look better if she bows out now.

Ok - I spent all day thinking about this, because I was initially feeling quite ambivolent. Part of me was thinking, the damage is already done - the party appears fragmented and non-decisive, how will dropping out this late help? And then I realized, that every day she prolongs dropping out is another day that Obama's campaign funds are spent fighting a war against Clinton instead of McCain. So yeah ---- it's time to drop out and support a campaign to win against McCain.

Heavens yes. It was mathematically impossible for her to win after the Texas and Ohio primaries - she had to get 65% in each state after that, which she's never done. It just keeps getting worse and worse odds from there. The last I heard, it was something on the order of 69% in the remaining states. Even when she was unopposed in West Virginia, she didn't attain it.

There is a time and place for everything. Her presidential aspirations for 2008 are well past that time.

Running as a third party candidate would doom her forever from political office. As it stands now, she can become governor of New York, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, a host of options, keeping the presidential run viable in the future.

If she is elected I am leaving the country....

because obama is stuffable....

She is a bad manager.

Of course she should. So should Obama, and so should McCain. The entire election is a sham and all of the people discussing it here have allowed themselves to be distracted and deceived by it. Wake me when you have independently verifiable pper trails. Until then you don't have a democracy. This is just a theatre, with McCain as the school yard bully, Clinton as the Ice Queen, Obama the cool, well adjusted all round nice guy, and a horrible continuation of Bush policies prepared under Bill Clinton with a more polite face.

Obama is the Tony Blair of the USA. Fake respectability ready to deliver more of the same tyranny we are used to. All we need now is "things can only get better" to be played at the democratic party convention.

For Americans who don't understand what fools they are being taken for, go and watch videos of Blair around the 1997 elections.

Suckers.

Popular votes:

With Florida

16,691,639 + 16,648,060 = 33,339,699

16,691,639 - 16,648,060 = 43,579

43,579/33,339,699 = 0.0013 or .13% Clinton lead--statistically meaningless

Without Florida

15,492,344 + 16,648,060 = 32,140,404

16,648,060 - 15,492,344 = 1,155,716

1,155,716/16,648,060 = .0694 or 7% Obama lead

Deligate votes:

2025 needed for Democratic nomination

Clinton 1171 or 57.83%

Obama 1903 or 93.98%

She should if she cared at all whether a democrat besides herself wins. She doesn't and won't drop out because she has an infintesimally (sp?) small chance of pulling this out of her ass.

Unless she wins in a landslide in Ohio AND Texas she has no chance of winning the majority of the popular delegates. If she allows herself to win based on super delegates than she proves she only cares about winning and not what the people want.

There are a few simple facts that guide my argument here: Clinton is behind in the overall popular vote and pledged delegates and is very unlikely to catch up in either category and she needs an overwhelming amount of super-delegates in order to reach the 2,025 needed to clinch the nomination.
First of all, I think it would be very damaging to the Democratic Party if she were to win by a surge of super-delegate support. It would certainly play in the media as the party's elite "screwing over" the first viable black candidate. At the end of the primary contest, super-delegates should choose the candidate who receives the most overall votes.
Secondly, Clinton's remained presence in the race is going to hurt Obama in the fall general election campaign. A bloody fight for the next three months will have no result other than to make McCain a favorite for the presidency.

I think she should stick in the race. It would be great if she won the Democratic nomination because there's no way in hell she would be able to get elected President. She's way too polarizing of a figure.

Looks like Hillary is making a comeback, she should stay in the race it appears after all!

There's no reason for her to dropout yet. She can fight her way back into the competition with victories in Texas, Ohio and Penn. She may not have Obama's charisma but Hillary has experience (and her husband) on her side.

She definitely should stay in. Every minute she's in means more stress and division in the dems. They're destroying themselves. All the Republicans knew when their time was up and dropped out, but Hill doesn't realize she's doing our job for us with her muckraking and sarcastic comments about obama.

Why drop out now after all that money she has put in and its been a close race.... it be stupid to give up even if u know u would loose... giving up is worse than loosing.

NEXT!

I don't get it why people hate her so much. Bad choices, wrong decisions, shady past? She's a politician, all of them are like that. I would worry that Obama hasn't, perhaps he hasn't been one for a reasonable period of time.

Can't say I care sorry.

There's a reason each state has its own primary - the only reason a candidate should 'drop out' before a convention is if there's absolutely no way they could get the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination.

Clearly, large numbers of Democrats qould prefer Hillary over Obama. There's no reason to disenfranchise them because he's presently ahead. If he had garnered the number of delegates required, then of course, but he hasn't.

That's said without any bias toward one or the other.

Now Ron Paul? It's time he faced the music.

Hillary understands the game is 'last person standing.'

She has almost enough delegates for a nomination.

Something unforeseen (a skeleton in the closet, a brain tumor...) could waylay Obama, and the Democrats would still have a strong candidate in the running.