• Some glimmer of hope for Hillary and her supporters? After a rather brusque put-down from VandeHei and Allen in Politico over the weekend (an article that basically said that HRC has no chance to win and is being carried along only by an adoring media), Nagourney of the NY Times reminds us that there is no way that Hillary is dead in this race. His piece points out that HRC is only out of the race if you choose to ignore the very real possibility that the superdelegates will decide the fight between Hillary and Obama and end up breaking with voters and go for the more “electable” candidate. It comes down to Hillary getting major wins in Pennsylvania and beyond, then making the case to the SD’s that she is the only Dem that can put a viable general campaign together in a matter of months and beat McCain. It’s the only sane argument available. Though Obama has the high ground in urging the superdelegates to “honor the will of the voters” and pick him, they have no obligation to do so. If HRC gets some mojo from these late wins and bounces high in the polls against McCain, she will be the most attractive candidate.
  • How long is this race going to last? The Clinton campaign has dispatched Bill to Kentucky for a campaign swing today. Kentucky’s Dem primary is set for May 20.  Oh… That ought to give Howard Dean and friends even more shivers. But there’s a good chance that KY won’t be of much importance by the time the Blugrassers vote. Some sort of tipping point is within reach among top Democrats about the Hillary/Obama fight. They will let Pennsylvania play out and hope for some sort of clean resolution after that. If not, there will be an intervention. Dean and Co. will not let this thing go to Kentucky, with McCain getting his gaffes and goofs out of the way all the while…
  • Fallout from of the Dem infighting: McCain has jumped ahead of Hillary and Obama in most general election polls and is blowing them away on “experience” and who is best to handle Iraq and foreign policy. He stinks on the home front, but it should be a bit alarming to the Dems that “100 Years in Iraq” McCain is beating their top two candidates on handling the war. This despite a huge majority who feels it was a blunder to go into Iraq in the first place. JMac is building up a perfect storyline for himself while the Dems strangle each other to death.
  • How weird has the Democratic race become? FL Congressman Tim Mahoney is suggesting - gasp! - Al Gore as a potential “compromise” nominee if the primary fight continues into the convention this summer. What’s worse; that the Dem race could actually go to the convention (won’t happen, but still…) or that Gore is still mentioned as a candidate? Uncharted waters…
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