Clinton Tunes Out Skeptics, Campaigns Coast-to-Coast Against the Odds

Hillary Clinton is still raising bucks and wearing out her campaign pedometer in her effort to become the Democratic presidential nominee, but even her own campaign is acknowledging that her days are numbered.

A columnist at The Huffington Post reported Thursday that a senior campaign official and Clinton confidante said a Democratic nominee will be chosen by June 15. Barack Obama’s campaign, meanwhile, announced its plan to declare victory on May 20, after he wraps up a majority of the pledged delegates in the Democratic nominating process.

Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe on Thursday compared the nomination process to Game 7 of the World Series. He said the game needs to play out, and voters are the ones to decide. But he told morning news shows that he doesn’t think the nomination process will drag on until the convention.

In fact, it will all be over “within a week or two after” June 3, he said.