As Mark Twain might have said, reports of her death were greatly exaggerated. Sort of. 

A day after a narrow win in Indiana and a genuine loss in North Carolina, Clinton has vowed to stay in the presidential race “until there’s a nominee,” ignoring calls from the likes of NBC’s Tim Russert and other figures in the media. 

As related by The Times’ Amy Sullivan:

No matter how hard she and her steadfast backers try, the exit polling from Indiana and New Carolina are not going to help make the case for her going on. In order for Clinton to persuade superdelegates to back her over Obama, she needed to demonstrate that she was the less divisive candidate who could win over general election swing voters in states like Indiana. Her aggressive campaign, however, has led to a growing gap — now between 15 and 20 points in Indiana and North Carolina — in the perception that she has been more unfair in her attacks than Obama has.

Sullivan also goes on to note that Clinton’s stance on the gas tax - part of her new populist pitch - actually hurt her more than it helped. 

Clinton’s recent embrace of a “gas-tax holiday” — an idea dismissed by others in her party as a bit of ineffective pandering — also reinforced questions about her trustworthiness. In Indiana exit polls, a full quarter of Clinton’s own supporters said that they did not think she was honest. Just as Obama suffered in Ohio for looking like he was too political on NAFTA, Clinton’s position on the gas tax issue riled Indiana voters, who consistently raised it in conversations with reporters the weekend before the primary vote.

From what we saw in Indiana, it seemed that her “populism” was a bit forced and unnatural, gas tax included, but I was frankly surprised that she didn’t pull out with closer to 55 percent of the vote in some regards. In short, her media narrative as an underdog presidential contender is coming apart.