I think PA and OH will still be hard. WI is not like those places. The media is making them out to be similar but they are really very different. I think TX is in play for totally different reasons.

All he has to do is tie her in TX not lose to bad in OH or PA and it is over now.

I am curious to see if he will stick to his guns and take public financing in the general election. I think I would like that Obama vs McCain public financing. An honest conversation about where the country is going.

I hope HRC supporters will come around. I recommend the last chapter of his first book if you are interested in knowing more about what type of person he is.

Wow 17%.

So I used to read this column because it covered the primary contests and while it had a slant it looked at both sides.

Not only has the coverage disappeared but the stuff has basically become what one expects from Fox.

So the apparently better run campaign has started to win consistently. The other campaign has turned negative because their message is not winning.

And what we get from Joan is a story about the mayor of SF with lots of little pro HRC anti BO pokes.

I hope she is really a good editor because at this point Salon looks really bad.

At least she isn't writing articles. It was worse then.

I mean I think the BO campaign is ahead of itself and comparing WI to OH and PA is a mistake. My guess is she will win those states. Perhaps by not much but win none the less.

TX could be complicated.

The bottom line is that HRC blew it. In the end she doesn't have a story to tell about where she will take the country.

She is clearly competent and compassionate but didn't deliver a campaign that was effective. She ended up running on who she and her husband where not on where she would take the country. She had some great ideas but no compelling story or vision.

People complain about Obama's slickness but it isn't that that gets a million of people to send checks. We have all seen salesmen before. It is the narrative. The notion that things can be better. That we don't have to settle for this political warfare.

Who knows if he can deliver, but can you imagine a country where we debated how to solve the problems, compromised, and worked toward solutions? Where Reps and Dems could be friends and have differences of opinions instead of the craziness of the last 15 years? This idea is why he won.

There could have been other stories but she never crystallized on one. Maybe they will kick Reid out of the leader position and give it to her. She would be a fabulous resource. And Reid has sold us out again and again.

You can stop writing stupid things. We won. Lets encourage a little civil losing with a little civil winning. Besides that is not totally correct.

Third party from the left is just lame. I understand the Dems have almost become the centrist party but they have too much baggage to do it.

I centrist third party would steal form both sides and allow both the left and the right to be more extreme.

Also you could compromise with either side to get require majorities. But a farther left party is really just a protest party against left.

Of course the two party system is only slightly better then the one party system.... oh well.

We all have our intuition. If you have doubts state them. Most people are really going on some gut instinct. I mean come on they voted the same 95% of the time?

They have different styles but they generally agree. We are trying to find the better of two excellent canidates. Try and remember that when we look at the negatives of the other side.

Read their books. Check out their web pages. Ask yourself if you are really sure that your canidate is that much better?

I mean a female president could be the most powerful change we have had in a long time. An inpirational president could lead to a new democratic coalition.

These two things are both beautiful. My heart leans too Obama because when he talks about details I follow his thought process. I see that he doesn't have a canned answer but a inquisitive analysis. I see it in his book from when he finished law school to his early policy statements in the campaing.

I am sad that it has come to this muck racking and storying telling on both sides.

As far as the NAFTA things goes he clearly didn't lie. He clearly didn't know that it happened. Otherwise he wouldn't have denied it but stated that it was unappropriate if it did happened. This is silly.

Now Resko, public fianancing there still may be problems. But Clinton has as much baggage. I have trouble believing there was nothing to hide in those tax returns. I have trouble with the volume of money Bill has take to give speeches with a wife as a sitting Senator and Pres. Canidate.

As far as the press goes the new guy gets off easy... Bill did very well with the press at first...