It is funny how Clinton supporters desperately, desperately need to believe that Obama supporters think he is the second coming. That if they can just show that he is human then voters will suddenly turn to Clinton.

Newsflash: The vast majority of Obama voters don't think he walks on water. We certianly realize he has flaws. We just think he is better suited to be President than Hillary Clinton. A candidate can be a long way from turning water into wine and still be a better candidate than Clinton or McCain.

To steal from the book: We're just not that into her.

Is there any industry whose employees haven't give him at least three digit sums?

The Energy Bill is a red herring. If you look at almost every bill there are things in them worth voting for and things worth voting against. Vote against a particular bill and you are voting against getting soldiers body armor. Vote for the same bill and you are voting to give billions to Halliburton. It is why I'm glad the general election will be between two Senators.

Personally, I think we actually need higher gas prices. We need to be using less gas, emitting less carbon, saving more energy, contain suburban sprawl, etc. As long as the price of gas is kept artificially low, the demand for gas won't abate.

It is one of the hypocrisies of both (and most) candidates:

We need to reduce green house gases and we need to make sure people can afford to use their single occupancy SUVs to drive 30-60 minutes to and from work?

We need to protect American manufacturing jobs and we need to make sure desiel price stay low enough that companies can afford to truck Chinese imports from Seattle to Jacksonville?

It is schizophrenic.

Side note to Sightheria on polls: Single polls are a snap shot, not a trend. Two polls that are both within the margin of error are effictively tied.

And if you think just winning Indiana, West Virgina, and Kentucky are going to be enough, you have somehow made it through nearly five months of nominating contests without understanding the basics of how the process works. Obama has pulled far enough ahead in this race that minor changing in delegate accumulution (such as single digit victories in Pennsylvania, the state with the second oldest population and where Hillary started off with a 20 point lead) is going to result in a win.

To only have a 100 pledged delegate defecit she needs to get 58% of the remaining pledged delegates. Spoiler alert: Oregon, South Dakota, and North Carolina aren't going to break 58% Clinton to 42% Obama. Not going to happen. But in the event that she does, she will still be faced with getting 62.5% of the remaing superdelegates would have not endorsed a candidate to support her.

Now getting more than 60% support for a candidate may not seem like a difficult amount of support for a candidate to get because so many contests so far have had a winnner getting more than 60% of the vote. But here is the tricky part: The vast majority of those contests were ones where Obama was the winner, not Clinton. Somehow I doubt the rule of thumb is: As goes Arkansas' Democats, so go the Nation's Super Delegates.

Of course you are just a reflection of your candidate, who is only running for President of Some of the Unitied States.

"And I'd like to see one shred of evidence to support this brown tripe the Hussein-Obama terrorist fan club keeps promoting."

Don't you have anything better to do, or are your white sheets and hood at the dry cleaner?

"But you're leaving out the droves of women voters, working-class voters, Latino voters, Jewish voters, and so on, who make up Clinton's base."

Actually, once you control for age, those cohorts stop being Hillary's base. The age of voters has been the deciding factor in these contests. Even there Obama is making inroads.

"Obama's nod toward Clinton's victory was gracious, but it didn't last long"

Do Salon suffer from the same condition as the guy from Memento? Clinton has rarely, if ever, congratulated Obama on any night that he won a contest (that is a lot of nights) and no one in the media says boo. But because it is Obama congratulating Clinton there is suddenly a time standard for congratulations.

Of course this is the same media that thinks 9.3 rounds to 10. That is the problem with letting Communications and English majors direct the narrative and not Math majors.

The real deciding factor in this contest has been age. Essentially Hillary has been kept afloat by the pre-boomer generation that sat by and accepted Jim Crow.

Although the pasing of each candidates base is funny. It makes it sound like Hillary's base is uneducated old white or latino women who don't have two dimes to rub together. I didn't realize my family reunions were such a powerful voting block.

I've yet to hear a major unaligned Democrat say that the winner of the nomination should be the one would wins the biggest states (regardless of any other factor).

On the other hand, major unaligned Democratic leaders have said the party should nominate the pledged delegate and/or popular vote leader.

Considering that Hillary only wins if she gets a ridiculously large percentage of the supers I'd say tonight was a loss for her since it didn't do enough to deliever her a shot at the popular vote lead or the pledged delegate lead.