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 […]

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Kunstler, worth the weekly read, as always:
Back around the year 2000, I used to joke with my friends that Bill Clinton would return (despite the two-term limit) as Emperor Bill the 1st. He almost made it. I voted for him twice in the 1990s, but the new script addition wasn’t so appetizing. It would have […]

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ABC News now reporting Obama has taken the lead with superdelegates, too.

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What is she doing?
Who, at this point, sees a path to the nomination for Hillary Rodham Clinton? Superdelegates have been slowly but surely defecting to Obama; his mug on the cover of Time Magazine isn’t going to help her make her case. Drudge had a link up earlier today, now gone, noting that Democratic Party […]

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You know, why must we over-analyze everything?
So here we have a Reuters piece about how Hillary’s gas tax holiday business was a big gift to Obama in Indiana and N.C. - which it undoubtedly was. The trouble begins when Reuters attempts to tell us why:
The fight, which dominated the final days before the North Carolina and […]

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In which I actually agree, sort of, with Jonah Goldberg’s bit in today’s Era:
Clinton says she doesn’t mind if economists agree that her proposal would do nothing to alleviate high gas prices. Indeed, when Stephanopoulos pressed her to name one — just one! — credible economist who thinks this idea has merit, she responded: “Well, […]

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Hillary: Whites like me:

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not […]

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Will Bunch catches a line by longtime Clinton advisor Harold Ickes:
“We don’t know enough about Senator Obama yet. We don’t need an October Surprise. And (the chance of) an October Surprise with Hillary is remote.”
Notes Bunch:
This remark is dismaying on several levels, partly because Ickes is virtually channeling Karl Rove, who implied something similar in […]

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Unbelievable. After two straight weeks of Obama’s scary black pastor and little else but Obama’s scary black pastor, Obama cruises in North Carolina - and Hillary wins Indiana by a mere 2 freaking percent.
She soldiers on, of course, because she can do nothing else. Clintons don’t lose elections. But she has. Who gives money to […]

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And why not, because that’s what we’ll all be doing later tonight anyway.
Most prognosticators see a Hillary win in Indiana tonight - 5 points or so, probably - but Drudge is reporting that some on her staff expect a “stinging” defeat in North Carolina - a loss by 15 points or more.
If this bears out, dunno […]

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I just don’t get this one. So Hillary’s big pitch these days is all about the nasty oil companies and oil-producing states - a natural pitch, obviously - but here we have her talking about how she’s going to break up OPEC:
“We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be […]

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NYT:
Still, despite a series of trials that have put Mr. Obama on the defensive and illustrated the burdens he might carry in a fall campaign, the Obama campaign is rolling along, leaving Mrs. Clinton with dwindling options.
Mr. Obama continues to pick up the support of superdelegates — elected Democrats and party leaders — at a […]

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So Hillary goes on O’Reilly tonight.
Gee, do you think they’ll giggle like schoolgirls as they stick the knives into Obama?

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A reader chimes in with some questions about how it is Lancaster County Dems went for Obama Tuesday night:
1. Are Democrats here more pacifist than Democrats in the rest of the state, and are Obama’s higher numbers partly attributable to a search for the closest thing to an anti-war candidate that this race has to […]

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Sullivan posts this note about why people vote Hillary, and I think it’s right on the money:
What they know about Clinton is that she was a part of the Administration that spent eight years talking about issues that were important to them and presiding over an era of peace and prosperity. So what they are […]

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So Hillary picks up at least 80 delegates, Obama at least 66. Obama still enjoys a healthy lead - but neither candidate now is expected to get the 2,025 delegates needed to win this thing by the end of the primary season in June.
As noted last night, I do think Obama represents the future of […]

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Hillary by 10, John King on CNN right now noting how she crushed Obama in the typical white, working class enclaves - Scranton, Reading, etc.
Funny that Lancaster would be among the more urbanized counties going for Obama. In any event; snap judgment here is that Hillary’s got a good argument now that your typical blue […]

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Terry McAuliffe on my teevee right now celebrating Hillary’s win -CNN calling it for her tho at this point it’s only 53-47 Hillary - and Terry talks about “all the negative advertising” the Obama campaign engaged in during the Pennsylvania campaign.
Give me a break.
More - Blitzer asks Terry, what if she only wins by a […]

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Drove by Republican HQ on Columbia Avenue and there are a couple of big signs out front. The first - natch - “Vote Republican.”
The second: “We will lead.”
And I thought: You mean, the way you have led, these past seven and a half years?
Are we sure a Democrat didn’t put this sign up, as a joke?
At […]

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I suppose I should have been pontificating up a storm on this, the day before Pennsylvania’s primary, but: eh.
Official prediction, one day out: Hillary wins. But by 10 points, max - and I’m thinking it’ll be more like 5.

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