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Mrs Clinton suffered a severe blow to her "inevitability gambit" when Mr Obama almost equalled her overall money haul ($25m versus $26m) and actually raised more money than her for the primaries ($23.5m compared with an estimated $20m).
And when historians trace how her inevitability dissolved, they will surely note this paradox: The first serious female candidate for president was rejected by voters drawn to the more feminine management style of her male rival.
This is not good news for Clinton or for those who insist on her inevitability.
She may still win New York, but anything short of a double-digit win isn't going to stop the erosion of her inevitability.
In The Poetics, Aristotle identifies reversal as an essential aspect of great drama: the mighty fall, the blind see, the disgraced achieve redemption, etc. Obama's rise to frontrunner status was, then, a sublime exercise in reversal, not just Hillary's unexpected defeat in Iowa but the unraveling of an interminable year in which the story was her "inevitability".
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So while the reality is that this decline in her ratings was predictable, Mrs. Clinton could be harmed by losing her perceived "inevitability".
Right now, Clinton seems to be running on her 2008 "Inevitability" playbook.
And though Ms. Montague said she never considered her defeat an inevitability that year, she acknowledged that her loss had given her an upper hand in next year's race for the seat, when Mr. Perkins is barred by term limits from running for re-election.
On the Democratic side, he argues that Clinton's victory in South Carolina this past weekend has helped her regain "her aura of inevitability".
Similarly curious was her assertion of the inevitability of her free-market commitments.
If Sanders had defeated Clinton on her own turf, the inevitability narrative of her candidacy would have been shattered, and the media and the Democratic Party would have been in an uproar.
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