Hillary wins in Texas and Ohio - Hip, Hip, Hooray for the underdog

Was it the unemployment in Ohio or the Latinos in Texas that helped
Hillary Clinton win? Possibly or was it that American Democrats root
for the underdog?

Now that Hillary has become the underdog,
maybe that is just something that more voters relate to. Clearly the
Republicans have never viewed themselves as underdogs and instead have
said, in not so many words, "If you want to side with the winner, vote
for us." Republicans have always been the New York Yankees to the
hapless Boston Red Sox. And up until 2002, the New England Patriots
were all but the laughing stock in the NFL. But now that Boston has has
a string of victories in both baseball and football, the world is
starting to root against them.

Democrats have always viewed
themselves as champions of the downtrodden, being socially conscious,
the "have not's" forever battling the uncaring Republican "have's." And
maybe because of this inclination, they are more likely to align
themselves with the underdog of the moment.

For many months when
Hillary Clinton was the favorite and Barack Obama, the underdog, it may
have been awkward to be seen as both a Democrat and a "winner" when the
lifeblood of the party is being a spokesperson for the poor and
disempowered.

And now that Obama has shifted to being the
favorite, hearing him speak of the his candidacy being likely is
beginning to smell of cockiness (and if you listen between his words,
you can feel some awkwardness at being in the favorite position) and
cockiness does not play well to Democratic voters who often see
themselves as victims of such people.