Obama has now won nine contests in a row, in most every part of the country. … He is no longer a leap of faith but a real winner. And what once seemed a major threat to his chances–uncertainty about the role of his race–has faded away. …
Conversely, Hillary has been completely stripped of what was once her greatest asset: inevitability.

It’s hard to see what hope remains for her. … Now, Hillary’s last hope may be that voters in Ohio and Texas will be in a contrarian mood. Perhaps, after hearing for the next week that it is now Barack Obama who is inevitable, and Hillary who is doomed, they will feel the same sympathy that New Hampshire did, and hand the Clintons one last reprieve. For old time’s sake.

It’s a longshot, to be sure. It’s also a great irony: The woman once mocked for her inevitability may only have the specter of defeat left to save her.

-Michael Crowley, “The Collapse Of Hillary,” TNR.com