To those people, I can only say: it's time to suck it up. The latest polling had her up by at least 20 points over every other candidate in the race with Biden in it; the narrowest recent poll shows that, with Biden out, her lead over Sanders among Democratic primary voters goes to 25 points.

Clinton's Achilles heel has always been her supposed divisiveness, but she may well end up facing a Republican next November whose entire political strategy is to divide Americans into people cheering his supposed truth-telling about Mexicans and Muslims and Megyn Kelly menstruating and the great silent majority of people who think that he's wrong, offensive and would be a terrible president.

Trump is almost certainly not the person to be answering a 3am phone call, as Clinton asked voters to contemplate in 2008; on a bad day, he's not even a person most of us would trust with our Twitter password and the retweet button. But, again, he's the ongoing Republican front-runner - which, one assumes, is why the "scoop" that Biden was going to declare his candidacy went to Fox News and not the New York Times. Nobody wanted an alternative (and one known to run mediocre campaigns) to the Clinton juggernaut more than conservatives.

Biden's withdrawal from the race gives his base of supporters two choices: throw support behind Clinton (the polls suggest they will); or try to Feel the Bern. With the Republican party drifting further right into sideshow territory, it's hard to see which, if any, of the GOP candidates can capture the near-mythical Reagan Democrats who might've been Biden's base after a Republican primary season in which popularity is a function of candidate's willingness to be the biggest jerk.

They are a growing minority in this country. And they were really looking forward to a standard bearer. Someone who used that term regularly, forcefully and without cynicism. But members of this group are hardy lot. And today they collectively choke back a manful tear as they watch Biden ride off into the sunset. And then they all say as they do daily to sons, friends, and their faithful pets, "So long, pal."

For those unaware what that means, there was a time at racetracks that 1/9 was the shortest price tracks could legally pay out by state law. Bet 2 bucks on Hillary and you'll win all of 20 cents.

Don't think this was Gowdy's plan.

She has been badgered by morons for 11-12 hours by the time it's done.   She has been gracious funny composed and completely in charge.

...if she's elected.

With Mr. Biden out, Mrs. Clinton is positioned to consolidate a key combination of elite support and moderate voters. The evidence of Mrs. Clinton's gains could start to trickle in almost immediately, since she was the second choice of nearly all of Mr. Biden's voters in public opinion polls over the last month.

A united coalition of moderate, nonwhite and older voters represents a clear majority of the Democratic primary electorate. Mrs. Clinton took a commanding lead of 57 percent to 31 percent over Mr. Sanders in an average of seven September surveys that removed Mr. Biden from the equation. Similarly, an Upshot model from earlier this year suggested that Mrs. Clinton would have defeated Mr. Obama, 62 to 38 percent, in 2008 if black voters had voted like demographically similar nonblack voters (like Hispanic voters).

Mr. Sanders can still claim the support of one of the party's largest and most influential wings: the party's predominantly Northern, white progressive base. That will be enough to compete in the key early contests of New Hampshire and Iowa and in some other states, but not in more diverse or conservative states like South Carolina. A recent CNN poll there showed Mrs. Clinton leading by a 70-to-20 margin if Mr. Biden stayed out of the race.

Mrs. Clinton's strength in the polls is underpinned by just about all of the factors that predict primary strength. Her policy views are right in the middle of the Democratic Party, denying Mr. Sanders much room to challenge her on strictly ideological grounds. Her support from party elites has bestowed substantial financial, organizational and public resources that will give her the ability to remain competitive on the air and on the ground.

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First Committee. First Committee. First Committee. First Committee. First Committee. First Committee. First Committee. First Committee. First Committee.

Gowdy bored me to death.

Yea, I know the Nobel peace prize is also hogwash.  But dear lord.

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If there is a cabinet position for mutant superpowers, I nominate NLCS MVP Daniel Murphy.  

Former Cubs fan/Turncoat Yankee fan Hillary Clinton...don't even think about getting on this bandwagon! ;)  

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These people do not appear to even know the most basic of facts about emil, the internet, technology or even how government works.