By most counts, Sen. Hillary Clinton trails Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination by more than 100 delegates. Yet Sen. Cinton argues that she’s leading in another important measure: big states. “I don’t think anyone doubts that a Democrat has to have a number of the big states anchored in order to put together the electoral votes needed to win,” Sen. Clinton said Saturday. Her comment is based on her showing in the nine biggest states But there are several problems with the big-state theory First, several of those wins come with asterisks. Texas’s mixed primary-caucus system leaves that state a toss-up, and the January primaries in Florida and Michigan likely won’t be counted The upshot: Sen. Clinton holds the delegate lead in only four of the big states |
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