Hillary Clinton Could End Campaign Following Primary Results

The oddsmakers may not even have enough time to post odds on whether Hillary Clinton backs out of the US Presidential race.  It appears she may very quickly. 

Oddsmakers at BetCRIS.com may have correctly predicted that Hillary Clinton would drop out of the race between May 7th and May 13th, offering up 2/7 odds on that particular option.  This period was the favorite.  But many believed a decisive victory in Indiana would have kept her in the race longer.  That race was too close to call until the very end where Hillary just barely won.

Thomas B. Edsall of the Huffington Post had classified Senator Barack Obama as "the presumptive nominee". 

In North Carolina, she suffered a crushing, 15-point-plus defeat at the hands of Barack Obama with 115 convention delegates at stake. He won black voters, who are roughly a third of the state's Democratic primary electorate, by a 91-7 margin. White voters, who make up just over 60 percent of the state's Democratic voters, backed Clinton 61-37.

In Indiana, Clinton appeared headed for a more modest 2 point or less victory. There, she won 60-40 among white voters, who made up 80 percent of the turnout, while losing black voters 8-92.

Also it appears that Hillary Clinton may be broke.

Ben Smith of Politico reported Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton might have made another loan to her campaign:

I asked Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe just now whether Clinton had given or loaned her campaign more money in the run-up to North Carolina and Indiana.

"Might be. Might not be," McAuliffe said, adding that the campaign would release more fundraising details tomorrow.

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Originally published May 7, 2008 2:38 am EST