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As the airwaves echoed with those arguments, the jack jumped out of that brand-new deck again. Rev. Wright's late-April whirlwind tour revived the worries about race and radicalism that Obama supposedly had laid to rest with his Lincolnesque lecture in Philadelphia the month before.

On the eve of the vote in Indiana and North Carolina, commentators keep calling Clinton a lost cause. The Washington oddsmakers who told Obama he had the nomination locked up two months ago keep pointing to their trump card: Democratic super-delegates wouldn't dare pick Hillary over Obama. To do so would offend African-Americans, a constituency who loyally deliver more than 90 percent of their votes to Democrats every November.

Yet the odds are hard to calculate, the way the Clintons play the game. Obama still looks like a sure thing, but Sky Masterson would never take that bet.

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