I’m wondering.
Did she really ‘stumble over the fact ‘?
Or was it more like a kick in the ribs?
“No person has ever won the White House without winning the Ohio primary, in either party…Somehow the people of Ohio end up picking the winners.”
–Hillary Clinton, interview with Columbus, Ohio, TV station, March 4, 2008.
It has become part of political mythology that you cannot win the presidency without carrying Ohio. (Actually John Kennedy pulled off this feat in 1960, winning the general election even though he lost Ohio by 273,000 votes.) But can you win the presidency without winning your party’s Ohio primary? History suggests that Hillary Clinton is wrong on this point.










