Coming on the heels of her win in PA, she seems to be gaining quickly. And yet… These are the first results to include any interviewing following Clinton’s impressive victory in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday. Though the gap between the two has narrowed — down to five percentage points from 10 and 8-point Obama [...]

Did he actually take the Clinton camp’s bait yet again? Why yes…he did…again. “Undisputable” indeed! UPDATE: Also, looks like there’s a lot of love coming from the conservative blogosphere. Nice.

Why should we trust somebody who has shifted her opinion so many times on what contests matters and what don’t? Jon Stewart dives in… That just gave me chills. Because it’s like watching George Bush explain the rationale for war. Seriously. And the Clinton’s latest argument, that if the Democratic process were more like the [...]

For the last several months I’ve read multiple columns suggesting that Democrats solve their nomination problems by choosing Al Gore. Today, there’s yet another pro-Gore column, this time from the Boston Phoenix. I won’t bore you with a quote. The gist is simple: Gore is well-liked and isn’t as damaged/fundamentally flawed as Barack Obama or [...]

Come on people…at this point this is getting a little silly. I mean, the totals are much closer now, but what’s with all the different numbers? All of these include superdelegate numbers: ABC: Obama 1,721, Clinton 1,586 Leader: Obama +135 NBC: Obama 1,727, Clinton 1,594 Leader: Obama +133 CNN:Obama 1,719, Clinton 1,586 Leader: +133 CBS:Obama [...]

That’s the word from Terry McAuliffe, so take it with a grain of salt… On MSNBC just now, top Hillary adviser Terry McAuliffe claimed that by the end of today, the Hillary campaign will have raised $10 million since she was declared winner yesterday. The number of new donors to the campaign, according to McAuliffe: [...]

Joe Klein takes stock of the Pennsylvania primary aftermath and decides Barack Obama was hurt by the six-week campaign [Obama] entered the primary as a fresh breeze and left it stale, battered and embittered — still the mathematical favorite for the nomination but no longer the darling of his party. In the course of six [...]

Call it what you will — vote suppression, vote discouragement, vote manipulation — efforts to keep citizens from voting are nothing new. Despite a host of laws against tampering with elections, you can be sure that someone, somewhere is hard at work devising new schemes to prevent voters from casting their ballots. This is hardly [...]

After numerous years of debate and general inaction, it looks like Congress is set to pass a bill banning genetic discrimination. The bill is expected to be signed by the president. This is good news. What the law will do is ban employers and insurance companies from using someone’s DNA profile to deny him or [...]

No doubt this will do a lot to solidify a win for Obama in North Carolina. From NY Times: [...] nearly 50 of his most prominent backers lined up behind Senator Barack Obama today, in a gesture designed to give Mr. Obama a heavy boost of support less than two weeks before the North Carolina [...]

Down a little from yesterday’s 10 point spread. It’ll be interesting to see what the national mood looks like after Hillary’s “double digit” win that wasn’t really a double digit win… Some details… This marks the third straight day Obama has had a significant lead over Clinton, although he held a slightly higher 10 percentage [...]

This from Clinton’s ironically titled “The Fact Hub” blog: After last night’s decisive victory in Pennsylvania, more people have voted for Hillary than any other candidate, including Sen. Obama. Estimates vary slightly, but according to Real Clear Politics, Hillary has received 15,095,663 votes to Sen. Obama’s 14,973,720, a margin of more than 120,000 votes. ABC [...]

The numbers are still shifting in the race, but with .49% left to report Hillary still hasn’t hit the “double digits” the media is widely misreporting today. Here are the numbers… Clinton – 1,238,232 – 54.6% Obama – 1,030,703 – 45.4% Clinton popular pickup – 207,529 What’s curious about these numbers is these were the [...]

Via TPM: Another red state super-del comes out for Obama this afternoon, the campaign announces: Audra Ostergard, Associate Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party. This makes the tally for today Obama – 2, Hillary – 1. As stated before, she needs this to be the other way around.

You can criticize John McCain’s solutions for the economy, but you can’t claim he’s unaware of the problem. He’s not: ”Government has a role to play in helping people who, through no fault of their own, are having a hard time,” McCain, an Arizona senator, said. He defined that role as offering choices on education, [...]

From TPM: Camp Hillary just announced the backing of super-del and Blue Dog dem John Tanner, a Congressman from Tennessee. Like I said previously, she has to start beating the weekly superdelegate pickup totals of Obama if she wants to show the momentum she needs to take this thing all the way to the convention. [...]

Six more weeks of negative vibes :(

Get ready for a lot of posts like this, because there really aren’t a ton of superdelegates left and this math matters now more than ever. From NewsOK: Gov. Brad Henry, who said earlier he would not endorse a Democratic presidential candidate until this summer’s national convention, announced this morning he is supporting Barack Obama. [...]

She actually didn’t break the 10% threshold that was widely reported. Official Vote Total Clinton: 1,235,067 – 54.3% Obama: 1,041,366 – 45.7% Clinton popular pickup – 193,701 PA Pledged Delegates (via CBS) Clintpn – 82 Obama – 69 Clinton delegate pickup – 13 Total Pledged Delegates Obama – 1,482 Clinton – 1,328 Obama pledged delegate [...]

Basically, it is ABSOLUTELY impossible for Obama to lose his lead in pledged delegates. Not only that, it looks impossible for him to dip much below a lead of 140 or so. Chuck Todd has the numbers… So what else is there? Superdelegates. And does anybody really think they’re going to break for Hillary enough [...]