The Buzz

• With a new week upon us, it is really beginning to look like the end of the road for Hillary Clinton and the uber-contentious Dem fight we’ve had on our hands since January. Obama is kicking his general campaign into gear and superdelegates are flying away from HRC like nobody’s business. She is doggedly campaigning - hard - in the friendly territory of West Virginia and Kentucky, but even the expected huge wins in those two states will do nothing to aid her current sit. The end of an era…

• Concerning Obama’s general strategy, he is set to begin a campaign trip to general swing states like Missouri and Florida next week. Although the general consensus is that this is all for desperately needed fundraising, the Obama camp is adamant that his swing will be a very public display of readiness for a fight with McCain in states that will be “competitive in the fall.” And the campaign is fairly clear that these trips will be nearly non-stop until at least mid-summer in order to quickly build up support after the bitter primary and coalesce antsy Dems in key states.

• Count one prominent Clinton supporter as being game for an Obama-Clinton ticket. HRC’s close friend Chuck Schumer is voicing support today for the Dem’s “dream” ticket this fall.  - On the viability of an Obama/Clinton ticket: “At first I thought it wasn’t but I do think it could be.” - This topic is still taboo in the official Clinton camp - see Wolfson’s brusque answer to that Q on FNS yesterday.

• As noted before, Hillary is still in apparent denial and steaming full speed toward the primaries in the Clinton country of WV and KY. She is campaigning in both states and holds wide leads in the latest polls, garnering around 60% in each state. No suspense in these fights, but they won’t do much for Hillary’s overall chances. It’ll just generate more concern over Obama’s ability to get white support and stiffen HRC’s resolve that she is the only candidate for angry white Dems.

• If John Edwards didn’t make it clear that he was silently accepting Obama’s inevitability in his morning show appearances last week, he redoubled those thoughts yesterday on Face The Nation. He again picked apart Hillary’s chance to score an improbable win against Obama and for the first time suggested that HRC’s continued efforts against Obama could harm the Democratic Party and its eventual nominee’s (Obama) chances in November. He noted that the “math” necessary for her to win is “very, very hard” to twist in her favor and that she “has to be really careful that she’s not damaging our prospects” for the fall. The pressure on HRC has now gone public.

• TIME.com has “7 Steps to Beating Obama” - a user’s guide to the election for McCain. A flowing theme throughout the piece has McCain needing to get very dirty in order to keep the focus away from his ties to Pres. Bush and on Obama’s Rev. Wright connection and any semblance of “false” rhetoric. But isn’t taking the “low road” a risk in itself if it flatly breaks McCain’s clean campaign pledge and if Obama stick to his guns and plays by the rules? This will be a fight on the fly.

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