After a night dubbed Hillary Clinton’s big comeback, amidst massive media hoopla, jubilation of Clinton supporters and confetti raining down on the candidate, the Democratic Party, which may have been looking for some clarity to their nomination, find themselves in a dilemma, ending up right where they were before Tuesday’s primaries.

Clinton, after being shut out by Obama in the previous 11 primaries, was destined for victories in Ohio and Texas to keep her hopes alive. For Obama, winning those two states would have most likely put an end to the race. But when the night was over, Clinton took Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas to Obama’s Vermont for a net gain of about four delegates.

The problem that the Democratic Party now faces is that the race is getting aggressive and increasingly negative, especially from the Clinton Camp, which has captured the media attention with what could be construed as some hard-hitting negative ads, against frontrunner Obama.

Most Democrats with whom the National Weekly spoke since Tuesday were concerned about Obama’s response to the obvious negative tone of Clinton’s campaign. Horace Wright, Caribbean American Democrat from Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, thinks Obama needs to put more pressure on Clinton. “Since last week Friday Hillary has been all over Obama, starting with the red phone TV commercial about the call to the president at 3:00 a.m. He has had to react to her all the time. If he is to win this nomination, he must begin attacking her and let her react… get her off her message.”

Now, having won on the heels of her onslaught, it’s highly unlikely that the Clinton Camp will divert from this method of success, and naturally the Obama camp will be forced to counter attack and possibly go on the offensive.

According to Obama supporter Gwen Smith, her candidate is acting “like a brilliant, well-behaved student, who allows the school bully to get away with bullying him. I know he stands for change, but to win he must stop being so nice, and go after Hillary. This is a political campaign, where the goal is to win, and although he wants to be different and clean, he must now campaign more aggressively. Many nice guys lose to the bullies, you know.”

The numbers don’t lie

By all accounts, the math shows that even if Clinton were to win the next 13 or 15 (redo in Michigan and Florida) contests by double digit percentage points, she is not likely to surpass Obama’s lead in pledged delegates. The fact is that it will be left up to the super delegates to decide the party’s nominee.

Many argue that it would be in the best interest of the party, if the super delegates would weigh in now to avoid further mudslinging, a waste of monetary resources and allow for time to prepare for the crucial November elections against Republican John McCain, who won all four states to earn his party’s nomination on Tuesday.

On the contrary, Hillary Clinton, judging from her victory speech, is clearly not entertaining any thoughts of dropping out of the race. And so the battle will wage on.

Political analysts agree that the negative tone of Clinton’s campaign gave her momentum in the days leading to Tuesday’s primaries. In fact, exit polls showed that large percentage of undecided voters went with Clinton, after the “red phone” ad aired on Friday. In the ad she sent the message of being the candidate better at handling the situation if as president she receives a crisis call at 3:00 a.m.

But, many Democrats, especially in the African and Caribbean community are concerned that while Clinton and Obama fight each other, in an increasingly negative campaign, Republicans are gaining an advantage with McCain getting out his message undeterred.

 H. O'Neil contributed to this story.