Hillary's campaign derides red state caucuses ahead of Texas.

The latest comments from Hillary's campaign simply highlight her sense of entitlement. This came from the co-chairman of Hillary's Michigan campaign:

"Superdelegates are not second-class delegates," says Joel Ferguson, who will be a superdelegate if Michigan is seated. "The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic.

Employing that same logic, is Hillary going to stop campaigning in Texas? Perhaps it would be as well if she did, because the huge gains she hoped to make there appear to be undermined by the latest CNN poll.

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois is a statistical dead heat in Texas, which holds primaries March 4.

In the survey, out Monday, 50 percent of likely Democratic primary voters support Clinton as their choice for the party's nominee, with 48 percent backing Obama.

But taking into account the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 4½ percentage points for Democratic respondents, the race is a virtual tie.

I've long said it, but if Hillary doesn't take Texas big time, it's over.

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