Basically, she couldn’t hold off her fellow Democrats any longer.

Now then…what’s the next chapter?

A lot of states are in play for both candidates that never were in 2000 and 2004.

It’s going to be one hell of an election.

It was all about Iowa…

What do you think?

On Race for the White House, David Gregory asks his panelists and it’s everything we’ve been saying here on Donklephant for the past few months.

Of note, I’m liking Race for the White House a lot more than Hardball. Gregory is much more even-handed than Matthews, and it makes for a better show. Definitely check it [...]

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Okay, the feed is down now, so a couple thoughts…

This was probably one of the better speeches she has given on the campaign trail, and she certainly hammered home the importance of not switching over to McCain. You could definitely hear the boo-birds when she first started saying his name, but they eventually [...]

A popular Democratic governor of a red state? Check.
A politician who walks the walk of post-partisan politics? Check.
A potential VP nominee for Barack Obama? Hmmm…
Watch this interview with Charlie Rose and you tell me…

Needless to say I’m impressed with Schweitzer’s refreshing candor, as is FiveThirtyEight.com:
Last night, Senator Jon Tester impishly threw Montana Governor Brian [...]

Obama’s a gifted speaker. Probably one of the best I’ve ever seen. So McCain definitely had his work cut our for him.
However, I don’t think anybody was expecting what we saw. Because from the tagline he stole from Obama to his uncomfortable, stilted delivery, McCain’s speech has been widely seen as a big time flop. [...]

Again, I linked to the live feed before, but this is the whole thing.

Courtesy of MSNBC.

I linked to the live feed earlier, but here’s the whole thing.

Courtesy of MSNBC.

After her speech tonight, she deserves this…

Consider this an open thread…

I linked to the text earlier, but I’m sure only a few of you really wanted to read it as opposed to watching it live.

Courtesy of MSNBC.

What will she do? Watch and find out.

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However, people are saying Terry McAuliffe said Clinton will concede if Obama reaches the magic number. He didn’t.
Let’s look at the facts.
First, already this morning the AP reports that Clinton will concede tonight, but the Clinton camp has already called that report false.
Here’s McAuliffe on The Today Show…

Note how careful he is by saying [...]

Gee, I wonder why…
CEO Rick Wagoner said Tuesday before the automaker’s annual meeting in Delaware the plants to be closed are in Oshawa, Ontario; Moraine, Ohio; Janesville, Wis.; and Toluca, Mexico. He also said the iconic Hummer brand will be reviewed and potentially sold or revamped.
Wagoner said the GM board has approved production of a [...]

From MSNBC:

As stated, chemotherapy and radiation will come after this. There’s a long road ahead yet, but this is encouraging news after we heard last week that the tumor was inoperable.
More as it develops…

Personally, I’ve been skeptical because I don’t think she could deliver Kansas. McCaskill made a lot more sense.
However…look who popped up on MSNBC as an Obama surrogate tonight to respond to Hillary’s win in Puerto Rico:

Okay, so why is this significant? Because note the background for her interview. That ain’t Kansas…it’s San Francisco. So why [...]

I think we’re about to see Clinton’s last gasp…
Apparently there’s a video circulating of Michelle Obama asking questions about Bush’s actions over the years. Clinton die-hard Larry Johnson is suggesting that Michelle Obama is saying “whitey” on the tapes in reference to Bush.
Booman Tribune has apparently heard what’s on the tape and lays out why [...]

On the President’s tendency to lie to himself…

On misleading the American people…

On being part of the propaganda campaign to sell the war…

On knowing that the book would have an impact…

Frankly, this doesn’t sound like a guy who’s afraid of speaking his mind. I wonder if he will indeed testify, especially about the Rove/Libby/Plame stuff.
More as [...]

While this won’t shut up critics who think Obama actually believes the nonsense that Wright said, it will stop stories like this latest Father Pfleger flap from happening during the general election.

Here’s a reaction from The Corner:
It’s been just over two months since Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race — the one that was compared by [...]

That’s apparently what he said a couple days ago…

I think this will be the likely outcome today. And frankly, I don’t see any other way it can happen without tearing the party apart.