‘When shall we three meet again?” asks the First Witch at the beginning of Macbeth. “In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” “When the hurlyburly’s done,” answers the Second Witch, “When the battle’s lost and won.” “That will be ere the set of sun,” adds the Third Witch.
But not ere sunset anytime soon. On Little Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton won Ohio convincingly, Texas narrowly, and threw in Rhode Island for good measure. Obama’s streak of victories, which reached twelve with the early-evening addition of Vermont, was decisively broken. After two and a half months of hyperactivity, the Democrats look forward to an eon of seven weeks until their next major vote, in Pennsylvania on April 22.
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