A body blow assessment of the Clinton campaign from the NYTimes.

A Drudge flash says the NYTimes is running a story tomorrow on concern and disquiet around the Clinton campaign that it might be slipping away.

Later: Here's the NYTimes piece. It sounds like an effort by the Clinton campaign to try and "freeze" the situation as it is today. They feel the tide and want to hold back the ocean.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said on Monday.

Mrs. Clinton held a buck-up-the-troops conference call on Monday with donors, superdelegates and other supporters; several said afterward that she had sounded tired and a little down, but determined about Ohio and Texas.

They also said that they had not been especially soothed, and that they believed she might be on a losing streak that could jeopardize her competitiveness in those states.

But I think the most significant thing in the article is this,

Several Clinton superdelegates, whose votes could help decide the nomination, said Monday that they were wavering in the face of Mr. Obama’s momentum after victories in Washington State, Nebraska, Louisiana and Maine last weekend.

Some said that they, like the hundreds of uncommitted superdelegates still at stake, might ultimately “go with the flow,” in the words of one, and support the candidate who appears to show the most strength in the primaries to come.

That's the key. I doubt if any of these people would come forward and publicly defect, but as I've been saying for awhile, in the end, the superdelegates will end up ratifying the popular vote.

(This revelation will also have the effect of pressuring the networks to start pulling superdelegates out of their published horse race tallies making Obama look further ahead.)

More: The money woes continue, "Obama fund-raisers say he is taking in roughly $1 million a day, while Clinton fund-raisers say she is taking in about half of that, mostly online."

And, "In a sign of Texas’s importance, she plans to fly there Tuesday, even though Wisconsin votes next week." (She's going to the Valley and El Paso, all incredibly Hispanic areas.)

And, among outside supporters, it sounds like a hard line is being drawn at Texas/Ohio, and it's a pretty high bar.

“They are looking way too much at Florida, Michigan and McCain, because all three won’t matter if she doesn’t blow Obama away in Texas and Ohio,” said a Democrat who is both a Clinton superdelegate and major donor, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to offer a candid assessment of campaign strategy. “Obama has momentum that has to be stopped by March 4.”

She has to "blow Obama away in Texas and Ohio" to satisfy?

This is a hell of an article to get on a big primary day. While the talking heads are filling airtime waiting on results, this is all they will be talking about.

She needs some good news badly.