From the Right and from mainstream media pundits the message is the same: Hillary Clinton should get out. This seems to be premised on the assumption that she is approaching a Huckabeean math problem: she cannot overtake the leader on delegates. To do that she would have to win big, really big, in Ohio and Texas. But let’s say she wins by small amounts in Texas and Ohio. (She is, after all, leading solidily in Ohio.) Does the Barack Obama juggernaut look so formidable then?

At the very least, she will then be in a battle for Pennsylvania on April 22 and be ending the delegate race on a high note. What she needs, in lieu of an almost impossible lead in the pledged delegate count, is: a shift in momentum, bragging rights that she has won every big state (except Illinois), a halt to the media’s “Hillary’s a has-been” storyline and a new image for herself as an indomitable fighter. If she does all that, she can then make her pitch to the superdelegates. It is not the most likely or probable scenario, but there is zero reason, other than to protect the leader’s image and prevent some damaging misstep on his part, for her to get out now. It’s a different story, of course, if she fails to win on March 4.