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Bob Obama-Herbert:

3/1/08 - If Hillary Clinton wins either Texas or Ohio, or even if she wins both of them -- giving her "New York, California, New Jersey, Texas, Ohio and maybe Pennsylvania" (not to mention Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma...) -- it would be awful if she "decides to hang on rather than gracefully step aside" because that would "infuriate the Obama true-believers" and "cause bad feelings that would be difficult to assuage."

It would cause "an ugly brawl" that would "open deep wounds in the party that would be very difficult to heal." In fact, "if Barack Obama wins in either Texas or Ohio...the Clintons, if they have any regard for the fortunes of the party, will be duty-bound to graciously fold their tents..."

Get it? If Hillary "only" wins Texas -- giving her New York, California, Texas, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, "maybe Pennsylvania," and oh, by the way, Michigan and Florida -- she should step aside. If she wins both Texas and Ohio, well, that's a disaster, because, having won all the big states and all the swing states, she likely wouldn't drop out, which would upset Obama voters.

But if Obama loses either -- or both -- of them, he shouldn't drop out.