Would it be wrong to call Senator Clinton the presumptive nominee at this point?

In Rasmussen Markets, she now has 65% odds to win the nomination. Barack Obama has just 33$. Intratrade is 66-32 in favor of Senator Clinton.

I think the title "presumptive nominee" needs to start being thrown around. She's ahead 7.9 points on average nationally but she probably has a bit of a bigger lead than that. She's won 3 of the 4 nominating contests thus far. She has a slight financial advantage as well fundraising wise.

What do you think? Time for that title or not?

I'd not yet call her the presumptive nominee.

It's too early to say that.

If Obama wins in SC (and I think he will), the momentum will once again swing back to him.

day to day the polls shift depending on which way the wind blows!

The fat lady hasn't finished her aria yet; she's still just warming up. A whole lot can still change, and the pundits and the pollsters turn out to be wrong more often than they're right.

Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

That's why Obama's numbers are a serious threat. In fact, when he had an honest media, he won. It wasn't until the media started with this picking on Hillary garbage that he started losing.

I think that kind of talk actually hurts her campaign.

I mean... uh....

Obama will take South Carolina, but how much momentum does that give him going into Super Tuesday? If it's enough to split with Hillary, then it will make the states that stayed back in the primary calendar look pretty smart.

...the American people are getting to know the candidates. Everyone
is formulating opinions, based on what is going on in the campaign.

I think it is very clear---that distinctive, almost opposite ways of
governing are being brought forth by both Clinton and Obama. Their
personalities are very different, their ideas are different and their
level of experience is different. They represent different generations.

With that said, I think we are learning a great deal about each candidate,
as they campaign. How they campaign is under a microscope as well as the
way their surrogates, spouses and others act as well.

America is at a crossroads and it appears that the Democratic party is as well.
These two candidates represent completely different directions.

I think all of us are so traumatized by BushCo. What a nightmare it has been
for all of us. It has been so horrendous, and now we have a chance to end
it all and start a new direction. Do we go with the more experienced, establishment
candidate, or do we go with a candidate who represents a new vision and big change?
Both candidates have very strong positives and you can make a case for their
negatives. It's going to come down to what America--and the Dems want--at this
point in history. A time when we are all so shattered at what has happened during
the last 8 years.

I'm confident that America will make the right decision, in the end.

We just have to let this play out, and we have a long, long way to go.

Maybe after Super Tuesday, if things go very well for her.

I'm not quite ready to call her that yet either. I want to see the results of S.C. first. If she loses by 8 points or more, then things tilt back to post Iowa pre New Hampshire. This next week will be critical as some of the pundits said last night on the election coverage. We have a debate. We have MLK day. And the battle will likely be joined between President Clinton (42) and Senator Obama.

NT

presumptive nominee, no.

Without predicting anyone's demise, I still dont know how this would all shake out in a head to head obama versus clinton matchup.

It is too early.