Why Clinton Stays in the Race

Mark Halperin writes a list of reasons that Clinton would stay in the Presidential race after Tuesday. What he seems to be missing is what the rationale would be if she has almost no chance of actually winning the thing, which, barring a blowout on Tuesday, is the likeliest outcome.

Matt Yglesias I think is a lot closer to the real reason:

Now under the circumstances, I see no real way for Clinton to make up the lost delegate lead, but at this point it does seem to me that she and her campaign staff are probably egomaniacal enough that if they pull out a narrow "win" they'll keep running anyway hoping for lightning to strike and seeing the damage it'll do to the party as a feature, rather than a bug, since a crippled Obama who loses to John McCain could set them up for another run in 2012.

In hindsight, Bill Clinton's relatively lukewarm support of John Kerry in 2004 makes a lot of sense. For these two, anything that doesn't result in the greater glory of the Clintons, regardless of harm to their party, isn't worth their consideration.