All over for her ?

While she celebrates her overwhelming victory at Kentucky and vows to continue to fight till the very end, her challenger, once an outsider, a vibrant black Illinios Senator appears to sail seamlessly towards the finish line.

As a melodramatic democrat’s campaign pitting the “1st woman US president aspirant” against arguably the “1st black US president aspirant” draws closer to its end, the equation is skewed in favour of the later. Thanks to the much detested policies of the Bush administration, although much early to predict, we are most likely to witness history in the making later this year. The current odds favouring another Republican President making it to the doorstep of the White House are meager to say the very least.

With less than two weeks and three contests left in the primary season, staggering but steadfast Clinton should hope for no less than a miracle to make it from here. Although she has gained a number of primaries lately, Obama keeps piling up the numbers and strengthening his grip to emerge as a clear favourite so far.

Clinton pins her last hopes on victory by winning over the superdelegates. Whereas, neither of the two candidates is likely to quench the magic number of 2026 required to seal the victory, based on the latest NBC News projections, Obama leads comfortably with 1953.5 delegates as against 1782.5 claimed by his opponent. Hillary has her eyes glued to Puerto Rico where she is expecting a resounding win on June 1, a repeat of the feat she recently managed at Kentucky, probably big enough to convince the undecided superdelegates to vote and tilt the balance in her favour. On the other hand, sniffing victory, Obama has already intensified his campaign against Mc Cain the most probable Republican presidential nominee in the race.

As her boat sinks, she has still a number of points to make. Clinton argues that she has won the states that would stack up stronger against Mc Cain. She also points towards the results of the disputed primaries of Michigan and Florida with the contention that she would’ve romped home had those results been taken into account (with out Obama being a contender in those polls). She is also counting on the claims of the many vocal democrats who have threatened to vote Republican or not to vote at all in case of Obama’s nomination as a presidential candidate. Amongst other factors, she asserts that sexism rather than racism has cast a shadow over the primary fights.

Whatever the reason maybe as,Hillary Rodham Clinton, one of the strongest woman candidates ever, makes her last ditch efforts to stay in the contention, the world wonders how long further will it take America to eventually elect a woman president?