Greg in FL nailed it. Obama is playing it "great leader" style which appeals to republisheeps. Obama can win those people. Hillary lost ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE back in 1993. And she won't get them back. People who vote on qualities and leadership are just looking for a "great leader". Obama has the speaking charm and opaque policy prescriptions to pick up a huge pile of independents.

I think the most important factor is the get out the vote factor. Even bigger than the obvious independent gap. If Obama is the nominee, you will see HORDES at the polls. Great swarms of people who never vote will get in their JFK vote before Obama gets plugged. The youth turn out brought in Billy Clinton in 1992, the current Dems would do well to recognize that advantage.

Hillary will have the very opposite effect. Pretend you are an anti-war activist, you get to choose between 100 years in Iraq McCain, and Hillary who can't admit that she made a mistake. WTF. That is not a choice. The activists will go Nader. Not to mention, what about the "What are we going to do to beat the bitch" crowd? They will vote, and vote often. if Hillary gets in.

Heads up polls fail to capture the day of voting rates.

http://wonkette.com/358263/barack-obama-has-a-cold-american-empire-crumbles

It looks like he has a cold.

I am not surprised that his speech was less than energized.

Anyone that claims someone is to the left of Fiengold needs real help. Or is transparently lying to accomplish a political objective.

Or 50% at least. And that is enough these days. How could this not be about race? I mean seriously? He is Black. He is in the primary election. Black politicians eventually get a race question. The election instantly becomes about race when someone gets a race question. Done. No matter how much chalk Obama puts on his face, this election will have a race card. Obama deserves some credit for keeping the race card as minimal as it has been. Obama rightfully keeps his distance from his old church. That some race questions come up shouldn't be a surprise.

Once again Obama doesn't even waste a day in fighting back. No attack is left un-countered. Parry RIPOSTE on every jab. I think this ad kinda proves the point in the ad. By being able to respond to an attack ad within 24 hours, he should be able to "pick up the phone" and respond within 24 hours in a live situation. I am impressed.

Let's say congress gets a Bush appointed judge. Judge rests on unitary executive theory, congress has no constitutional authority of oversight over the executive branch. Then a Democrat gets elected in 2008. What happens to all those Bush appointed judges? What do they say when their precedent says, you can't check on the unitary executive in the era of a Democratic executive? I can't wait to read the court opinions.

Greenspan created this mess. He cut the interest rate to 1% in 2001. Then he systematically deregulated the banking industry. Then the housing boom happened. Then he refused to regulate CDO's based on the boom. Then the deregulated doomed loans died. Then Greenspan left. Putting him on top of the economic council is like putting Condoleeza Rice on the 9/11 commission. Condoleeza's gross negligence in ignoring all the warnings from Richard Clarke brought us 9/11, Greenspan's refusal to regulate brought us the financial sector crash. Clinton has shown her true colors today. Greenspan is anything but non-partisan, he is the very height of free market fundamentalism.

The point of elections it to throw out bad policies. You vote against things that didn't work. Election year politics is all about assigning blame for current failings, and voting to correct them. That is one of the best parts about Democracies, collective will affects policy. So ... McSame refuses to talk about how we got to our current predicament, plans on doing exactly what Bush did to get here, and will blame the Democrats for "election year politics" when it is entirely called for and helpful. Truly Bushian.

There no more benefits of the doubts left for HRC. She is now running a Republican campaign. Even MCCAIN has stayed above this. Hell, I think Karl Rove did. HRC is really messing up the Democratic chances in November.

Only so much attack ad time is allowed by informal decency rules. Obama and Clinton are turned on each other. They use up their attack quota on each other instead of "Keating-5 Broken The Financial System Once Before Plan on Doing It Again" McCain. Yes, turnout is a little better, but watch the polls. McCain is on the way up against the Dems. Dems are taking too many hits from each other, and not giving enough back to McCain. Turnout is already high, but national poll numbers are going lower.

That is pretty sad. I would expect more from my fellow men than to whine about women ruling over them. Yes, women make you play by their rules, but if you just get good at playing mind games you can get around them, or just erode their bright line rules. My gut reaction is that those 50% of men are just unhappy about their family / business / wife life and project that onto not having enough masculine power.