So Slate has an amusing piece on Hillary Clinton, and the fact that she’s now taken to using the theme song from Rocky during her campaign stops in Pennsylvania. Sure, I get it… Philadelphia and all that. But Slate’s Chadwick Matlin nails it when he points out that the metaphor doesn’t fly… Rocky is the underdog, not the corporate-funded favorite. Plus, Rocky
loses.

As Chadwick says: “Balboa puts up a great fight, but neither fighter knocks the other out
after 15 rounds. Instead, the fight’s outcome hinges on the superdelegate-like judges,
who declare a split-decision: Apollo is the winner. But three years later, in Rocky II, the fighters meet again. This
time Rocky wins. The takeaway: If Clinton
can’t win this go-around, maybe she can get off the mat in time for 2012.”