“Ohio is the key to winning the presidency, and I’m excited about tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it,” she said, predicting success and looking to the next major primary in Pennsylvania,” on April 22. That comes from this Associated Press article, written earlier today.

She said it, not me.

Remember a week ago, before Obama was slightly ahead in the Texas polls, when the Lone Star State was what the election hinged on for Hillary?

“Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said on Monday.” Taken from a Feburary 12th NYT article.

Now that Obama has made inroads with Latino voters (a week ago conventional wisdom was that this voting block would never cast their ballots for an African American) her focus has shifted again. It continues to seek refuge, this time setting it’s sites as far ahead as Pennsylvania on the 22nd.

Mike Hucakbee called–he wants his schtick back.

How far–literally, in both time and space–can this go on? The candidates have already transversed a large percentage of our country, and they’ve been campaigning for months and months already. (This article published today from NYT has the headline, “Clinton Vows to Press on to Pa. And Beyond”)

Does she really plan to drag this out to the June 7th, and Puerto Rico’s 63 delegates? Hopefully not.

Not because it’s better for the Democratic party as a whole if there’s time to focus on just one candidate instead of fighting amongst themselves. Not because it’s a huge waste of resources; both candidates spending millions of dollars trying to out do the other. Not because I’m tired of hearing the same positions on the same issues in the same debates. And not because the constant mudslinging between the two of them is getting tired.

Because Clinton is annoying. Tina Fey might think that ‘Bitch is the new Black’. But really ‘Bitch is Annoying…Still!’ She’s Tracy Flick from Election with twice the money and none of the charm, and all of the grating mannerism of a classic bullying overachiever.