On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction. But even if the odds of calamity are small, why gamble?

乍看起来，这种情况，听起来好像是直接来自廉价科幻小说的情节。虽然造成灾难的可能性很小，可是为什么要去冒险呢？

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She also had a larger point right, though it probably wasn't intentional: her chances are so small that it would take a calamity in the Obama campaign to give her the nomination.

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