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(By Ari Berman / Source The Nation - USA) The Clinton campaign has been busy inventing new reasons for why Barack Obama keeps winning state after state. "One of the hilarious side-effects of every Obama victory is the spin from Clinton quarters and its surrogates and supporters explaining why said victories 'don't matter,'" Markos Moulitsas blogged this week. Either the state has a caucus, or too many black people, or too many affluent people, or too many independent voters, or too many red staters. If only the Clintons had the perfect electoral map. If only. If only the Clintons had a coherent explanation for why Obama has so thoroughly out-organized and out-hussled them across the country in February. After all, there was no reason why Hillary Clinton, after spending eight years in the White House and amassing a hefty war chest of money and incumbency in the Senate, couldn't of won caucus states, or red states, or states with large African-American communities. The front-runner is supposed to win these places. If Obama had lost eight states in a row, his candidacy would most certainly of been toast.

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(By Cora Currier / Source: The Nation - USA) There's been a lot of commentary in recent weeks about the Democratic candidates and the youth vote. But what have the Republicans--average age 61--done to reach out to the young whipper-snappers? Well, actually, not very much, according to two college Republicans caught on camera at Tuesday's debate at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Wall Street Journal's Adam Najberg asked the two students how they much they thought Republican candidates had done to reach out to young voters.

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