What happens to "It's Over" if Clinton pulls a 40-point victory in West Virginia on Tuesday, then follows it up a week later with a 30-point victory in Kentucky? If these states turn out in the same margins that states since March 4th have averaged, that would imply a net of about 290,000 votes for Clinton. That puts her within striking distance of a reasonable popular vote victory. "Over" will be over as we turn our attention to Puerto Rico.

Who's been asking this very same question and getting crickets?

1.5 million people voted NC Dem. Presidential primary. About 1.4 million voted for governor and 1.3 million for senate. There was almost a 100,000 and 200,000 vote drop off between him and the winning senate and governor candidates.

The other camp knows this & keeps waiting for one of the right wingnutz or a talkshow host or a fundagelical to drop the dime so that the Clinton's do not look as if they personally smeared the worthy opponent.

I also don't think that Sen. Obama has been actively vetted by the system--his US senate campaign was against a fill-in, late date carpetbagger who didn't have the resources to find dirt & dish it.  I doubt that his IL state senate races drew enough attention for the Chicago journalists to even do a police record check.

Also, as many commenters notice, repeatedly, the lame stream media give Sen. Obama a pass.

It's mindful of the Bu$h xliii drunk driving ticket only becoming public 3 or 4 days before the election--competent investigative journalism should have found it months earlier (& 3rd rate muckraking dirtbags certainly would have found it), but no one looked.

I'm sick of her being held to a double standard.  MO says she wants to scratch out Bill Clinton's eyes.  Obama indicates that Clinton is dirt on his shoulder.  The media tries to force out a viable candidate for the democratic nomination.

no its not.  I don't think there has ever been this kind of "coalition" -- one where you're a 'key constituency' if you support the candidate, and if you don't support the candidate, you are de facto not a 'key constituency'.

The Obama campaign has two massive --and interrelated-- flaws

1. Obama's campaign is based on his personal appeal, and that appeal is limited to a relatively small group -- and he has demonstrated no ability to adapt his message in a manner that appeals to those not part of his "natural" constituency.  In essence, he brings his base, and his success in November is dependent upon Democrat Party loyalty and anti-pathy toward the GOP this year.  

2. its messaging alienates key constiuencies -- any campaign whose primary electability argument is "new voters" and "new coalition" is going to raise questions about the importance of the concerns of "current voters" and members of the "current coalition".  

as BTD has so cogently noted many times, "demographics are destiny". sen. obama's demographics are so narrowly construed, compared to the total population, that he's painted himself into a corner.

as for race and gender being raised in the primaries, sen. obama or his minions flashed the race card, early and often (gee, sounds like voting in chicago, doesn't it?), not the clinton campaign or sen. clinton herself. i challenge any obama supporters to prove otherwise. this isn't a timed test, we can wait.

Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?

...the Clintons probably understand the essential evil of racism better than most white politicians. They have certainly done more than most of today's white politicians to combat that evil. That is why, as they contemplate the conclusion of this campaign, they deserve better from themselves than to encourage doubt about their decency and character.

Further, the SDs have made it clear that they are waiting for something to happen before choosing one candidate over the other.

She can rile up whomever she wants.  People aren't "allowing" her to stay in the race out of kindness.  She has earned the position she is in and has every right to continue aggressively seeking the nomination.

Unless folks want to make the argument that Obama should tread carefully around Clinton's reputation, then I find the suggestion that she should not "rile" anybody else up a tad condescending.

Or you could also spell that: