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The Times - Oh no! Groundhog Day… again, by Gerard Baker

You’ll recall that in the iconic 1993 film, Bill Murray plays a weatherman who is condemned to repeat, apparently forever, his tedious day in the cloyingly friendly Pennsylvanian town of Punxsatawney, where a groundhog named Phil pops his head out of a tree every year and determines how much more winter there will be.

Pennsylvania on Tuesday was yet another Groundhog Day for the Democrats. Almost every primary in the last few months has promised to produce a resolution to this titanic struggle. Surely one of the candidates (usually Barack Obama) would do enough finally to finish off the other?

But with every primary, we wake up the next morning, and sure enough, the race is back on, and we’ve got to keep running it, day after day.

Mrs Clinton won on Tuesday by just enough votes to keep the Democratic show on the road for at least the next two weeks, when the next primaries are held, and quite possibly, for all we know, into eternity.

I loved that movie. Ahh, this is so fun.