Progress Illinois

Add another voice to the chorus calling for Hillary Clinton to concede defeat in the Democratic presidential primary. Today, the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board expressed many of the standard arguments for why Clinton should pack it in. On top of observing that it's close to impossible for Hillary to win numerically, and that any last-ditch effort to do so (presumably involving Florida and Michigan) would effectively tear the Democratic Party apart, the Sun-Times also argues that she should drop out for the good of the nation as a whole:

Do it for a nation that is ready for, and has everything to gain from, a vigorous general election campaign, one that pits the Democratic and Republican nominees long enough to really show us who -- Obama or Sen. John McCain -- would be the better president. [...]

A good long contest, as we did learn from this endless primary, can be highly revealing. But every extra day Clinton stays in the race is one less day voters can weigh the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the two men vying for president.