And once again, we're no more clear on who will win this thing than we were two days ago.

Jesus, hold your wagging tongues for ten seconds, fools. Once again the slimy media have jumped the gun to piss on Hillary's grave. (Please excuse mixed metaphor.) They have been building to this lovely crescendo since Iowa. So, regardless of how anyone feels about this primary, I hope you understand that the media is NOT on your side. It has no conscience and no loyalties; it just perpetuates itself. Like a virus.

I look forward to celebrating Obama's victory AFTER Clinton's concession speech.

In response to the first two comments on this story, I understand where you're coming from, but the fact of the matter is that Clinton can't mathematically get the nomination unless Super Delegates choose to override the popular vote and pledged delegates.

That's not going to happen. It would be politically foolish and undemocratic to boot.

It's true that the media narrative is a self-serving entity, going back and forth based on what makes for good drama more than what makes for good reporting, but the narrative last night was driven by the numbers. It might be happenstance that the media narrative and the numbers coincide, but the numbers, as the saying goes, "are what they are."

Obama will be the Democratic nominee. Given that the substantive differences between Clinton and Obama are virtually nonexistent, one hopes that both candidates and their supporters can keep their eyes on the prize. Now that the GOP has closed ranks behind McCain (despite a lot of very real political differences with him), it would be a shame for the Democratic party to shoot itself in the foot over what amounts to differences in personality and style.

Hillary Huckabee

that we might end up with Barack Obama's campaign contributors, those regular folks who sent in an average contribution of $98.00 - a subset of the same ones CLinton continues to say Obama can't attract and retain - are the ones who help to pay off Clinton's campaign debt.

I have to bring up race as a factor, yet again, in the race, because should Obama's campaign assume some of Clinton's debt, the irony is that the contributions of many ordinary folks, many of whom are black, will be used to retire the debt of a rich white woman who ran a campaign directed at beating them.

The message and metaphor of this scenario is too rich (pun intended).

God bless America.

She has thrown the entire party under the bus and has given enormous comfort to McCain.

Democrats won't forget... she is finished in politics and may not even win her congressional seat next time she's up for election.

But what's even more of a shame is that Bill Clinton, our last great president, has ended his career too.

that nothing essentially changed since before Pennsylvania, yet as Russert says "After Pennsylvania, money roared in to the Clinton campaign, because people saw a real chance"

Not because there was a real chance, mind you, Pennsylvania in fact represented a 12 point slide in Clinton's support, mirrored by a 12-point gain in Obama's support.

No, it was because there they were, the Russerts and the Stephanopoli and all the rest getting their news from each other instead of anything as pedestrian as the facts, saying "It's a race again! She might win!" and all the rest of the Clinton spin, while some of us here and other venues online said quietly "uhm, you do realize that this was entirely expected and in fact the only surprise was how far she slipped in PA...?" which fell on deaf ears in pundit land.

Now, Russert comes out and pronounces with wise twinkly-eyed gravity what the common wisdom is now, which almost by coincidence happens to be in line with reality this time.

I'm thrilled that the voters saw through the nonsense and will nominate Obama now, but we have a looooong way to go in restoring news to any semblance of impartiality not to mention reality, it's a complete sham at this point.

She leads Obama among democrats nationally in some recent daily tracking polls.

There are also reports that she loaned her ailing campaign something like $6.4 million in the past month. This is in addition to the $5 million the Clintons loaned the campaign earlier in the year.

The Huckabee comparison is incorrect.

This looks more and more like Romney's vanity campaign.

Now is the time for Hillary and Bill Clinton to step aside and let the Democratic Party win the presidency with Barack Obama.

He's stayed focused, brought out the best in his supporters and begun to lead us toward a better America. I'm proud to stand with him.

Hillary needs to move back to the Senate where she can drive the party's agenda.

I am glad to see that internally the Clinton campaign realizes this campaign was lost in February. I have been saying that for months. Mathematically Hillary was all but eliminated when she got pummeled along the Potomac. The Clinton campaign has been waiting for a Republican style scandal, and have run a Republican style campaign ever since. Sorry you can't change the rules because you lost. The saddest part of this whole thing is what the long term effect will be on Bill's legacy. Hillary....politically she's done.

No, she lost it with her Iraq vote. That was the opening that Obama needed to draw distinction from Clinton and strength from the disaffected antiwar Democrats. Just as Kerry really lost it at the south rim of the Grand Canyon with his "would still vote the same way". She was done when she made the calculated risk that being for the war was better triangulation than being against it.

Q: What was missing from the return coverage last night?

A: Any mention of the republican returns in NC and Indiana.

That alone should be example enough of the media's love of this story. They're so ravenous of this dem battle that they completely forgot to cover anything on the repub side. There could have been a nuclear missile launched last night and they wouldn't have even covered it. The "news coverage" is getting more spooky by the day.

I live in NC and I was interested in hearing ALL the returns last night. I guess not.