Starting Gate: A Bitter End

Summer's here but the primary campaign continues to roll on – barely. The DNC Rules and Bylaws committee will meet this Saturday to at least begin the process of resolving the in-limbo delegations of Florida and Michigan. Puerto Rico votes on Sunday and in one week, South Dakota and Montana will complete the Democratic primary process.

But the campaign obits continue to roll in for Hillary Clinton's once-inevitable effort. The Washington Post speculated on Clinton's eventual return to the Senate full-time, following a similar story by the New York Times. And the AP is asking readers to imagine what life without a Clinton involved in presidential politics will be like.

Any slim hopes of convincing those all-important superdelegates to somehow come around and boost her to the nomination may have vanished in the flap over Clinton's reference to the assassination of Robert Kennedy, something she quickly apologized for.

Even Clinton, who vows to continue her campaign through to the end is displaying some signs of fatalism. As CBS News' Fernando Suarez reported yesterday, the candidate treated her entourage traveling with her in Puerto Rico to a "last supper" of sorts.

Clinton continues to push back aggressively against the idea that she should exit the race. "People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa," she said, exhibiting a bit of bitterness. If true, they won't have to wait much longer to get their wish.

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