Spending the evening with the Penguins and Flyers rather than the W. Va. primary - it’s more competitive - but, Hillary’s margin of victory seems about what was expected.

I am more determined than ever to carry on this campaign until everyone has had a chance to make their voices heard,” Clinton told supporters as the scope of her triumph became clear. “This race isn’t over yet. Neither of us has the total delegates it takes to win.”

Unfortunately, a lot of the people “making their voices heard” over the past few days are, as we’ve been reviewing, stone racist.

Whatever. As noted on too many previous occasions to count, Hillary represents the Democratic Party’s past. The sentiments in West Virginia that have bubbled up from the primordial muck this past week or so are unchanged from what they might have been two, three and four decades ago. You don’t want to throw out the good with the bad - I’m certain that some of the people “uncomfortable” with electing a black man are, in fact, basically good people. And there are obviously plenty who voted against Obama for reasons other than his race.

But we heard the racial sentiments often enough this past week to know that this, too, is part of the Democratic Party’s past. Obama, on the other hand, represents a sort of post-racist future (though of course his race is the reason a lot of people vote for him). You remember Martin Luther King Jr. talking about how we’re supposed to judge people not on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. For some people, that’s too much to ask. The promise of Obama’s candidacy is that for others - it isn’t.