Edwards and Gore are the remaining big holdouts. Spin it however you want, but if Obama gets those two, it's game over.

Interesting, the most inarticulate candidate for president endorses the most articulate.

If we put forward the Obama campaign now, the game is over.

Bringing out a big endorsement on Good Friday does that, how?

Unless the idea is the Richardson's endorsement helps the last big weekend of voter registration in PA. But that's a reach. Otherwise this is a big tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

Hillary already has the Hispanic vote locked.

As for the 3% of Democrats who supported Richardson in the primary, I'm sure they will be thrilled.

Governor Richardson has confirmed my high opinion of him in his endorsement description of Obama. We have a choice between a once-in-a-lifetime leader and male business as usual and female business as usual candidates. Clinton would be wiped out by McCain on the issue of experience. It was the experience of Clinton and McCain that got us into our current dismal state: an unending war, extraordinary oil prices, uncertain American job prospects for the future, a preference for force over diplomacy, and the isolation of America in the world. Do we really want more of the same?

Is Richardson relevant? I guess as much as anyone. But he's just another ex candidate who no one paid any attention to when he ran.

An endorsement means little to anyone but the MSM. It's really just a way for opportunists to grab the spotlight for 15 minutes in hopes of a political appointment or favor down the road. For example, Kennedy and Kerry's endorsements did little for Obama in Massachusetts, but put them in the headlines and give them some political capital if Obama's elected. Politics as usual.

Richardson is the only one of the original gaggle of Democratic candidates that actively seemed to be running for Vice -President. Obama's ahead with a likely unbeatable lead, so of course Richardson will endorse Obama. He's hoping for an Obama-Richardson ticket. It won't happen, though, because Richardson won't bring Obama any votes and doesn't really add much to the ticket.

of Obama has significant symbolic value, which might translate into actual votes in places like PA where there are large pockets of Latino voters scattered throughout the state.

These Latino voters, unlike their counterparts in other regions of the country, are not strongly aligned with Hillary or the Republican Party. Richardson can travel with Obama to these areas and shore up his standing.

The critical factor for Obama is to seek out and court these voters in PA., sooner rather than later, and to block or neutralize Hillary by meeting with the influencers of the Latino communities throughout the state. This week Hillary met at Millersville University with a group of PA Latino leaders. Obama likely was awaiting the Richardson endorsement prior to his meeting.

It would be short-sighted for Obama's strategists to merely focus on the Pittsburgh/Philadelphia geographic demographic, because many PA Latino voters reside outside those two cities, in S. Central PA, the Lehigh Valley, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre..Pocono Mtn regions...

I knew it was a long shot, but I supported Richardson early in the primaries. I thought he had the best credentials and couldn't understand why he wasn't kicking Clinton & Edwards' butts (it never occurred to me that Obama had a chance). I've been supporting Obama since Richardson dropped out, so it's nice to see him come around to "my" side.

Of the Clintonistas pooh-poohing the Richardson endorsement of Obama.

Let's see, this is the guy who had risen to Hillary's defense all during the primaries, not once, but several times. This is the guy who had a job in her husband's administration. This is the guy who had been talked about as a potential Clinton Veep. And this is the guy who had been courted practically nonstop by Clinton to endorse her from the second he dropped out.

Yeah, you're right. That Richardson has now endorsed Obama doesn't mean anything.

Given all of the hoopla over Jack Murtha's endorsement this past week, I think it's only fair to point out that Richardson is a superdelegate too.

Oh, and he's just as burly as Murtha, so he'll be just as effective as a bulwark against Clinton's recent gains in automatic delegates....

Gotta nip those 2-0 runs in the bud before Mark Penn claims it's significant, don't you know.

Thanks Bill, You're not so bad yourself, welcome aboard.

My guess is that Richards is the first we'll see of a series of Obama endorsements before PA.

Responsible superdelegates are making the same calculations about the possibility of Clinton winning as us plebes, and coming to the same conclusions.

The logic is starting to reverse: rather than wait and see if Clinton pulls it off, the concern now is that she will cause too much damage to Obama. It's better to try to mitigate that damage by decreasing the margins of her victories in PA, and add to Obama's margins elsewhere. More importantly, it's time to decrease the importance of the competition by putting Obama closer to the top.

Richards is the first superdelegate to play the supposed superdelegate role.

It is good to see Obama expanding his delegate lead week after week.

Let's see:

Barack Obama endorsed by Bill Richardson: loser. Barack Obama endorsed by John Kerry: loser.

John McCain endorsed by Joe Lieberman: loser. John McCain endorsed by Mike Huckabee: loser.

I've set the snooze alarm for November, 7th; someone please wake me if I sleep through it.

You need only read the warm, inviting comments by his acolytes towards Hillary's supporters to illustrate that he is truly a "once-in-a-lifetime” new kind of politician. The way he admonishes his incredibly mature and respectful followers to discard the vitriol and divisiveness of the past and usher in a “new way” and embrace “change” is heartwarming indeed.

Check out this article link from one of the undecided superdelegates, Democratic Gov. Philip Bredesen...he suggests once the primaries are over that all of the superdelegates get together and caucus in early June to cast their final votes. Doing so will seal the nomination process before the August convention, thereby sparing all of us 2 more months of useless bickering between the candidates before the convention...and to give Dems time to cool off before the REAL campaign begins.

Here's the link...start clamoring your local Democratic congressman/woman or senator to push for this (or I guess call or email the DNC, if you can somehow get through)...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/opinion/19bredesen.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin