The other thing people aren't talking about is how twice now Obama was said to be surging in the polls just before the vote (New Hampshire & yesterday), and the polls, pundits, and spin ended up being 100% wrong.

Considering all the media hoopla surrounding the bogus Obama 'surge' and the fact that Obama is so far beyond all the candidates in terms of money, Obama should have upset Clinton and taken some of the big states and coasted comfortably ahead in the delegate count.

Not only has Obama not gotten a bounce coming out of the day as everyone expected him to, but his campaign is spinning, spinning, and spinning pretty furiously at this point.

They claim to be ahead in the delegate count. Maybe yes, maybe no, depends upon who is counting. He is hitting her much harder in terms of heating up the rhetoric (as he did going into SC), in what seems to be a sort of blind attempt to make some mud stick to her.

I have to say, the Obama campaign folks aren't looking very brilliant this morning, considering he is supposed to be able to buy and pay for the best and brightest Dem operatives right now.

And there is precious little evidence the Obama camp will try and keep it civil. With his momentum slipping so much, and him coming up empty in the big states, I just don't see how he can afford not to go very negative, very fast.

Like I said in the Primaries thread, Obama has to win ALL the upcoming primaries to stay competitive delegate-wise. That would be tough for any candidate to do.

But all those millions he keeps sucking up will certainly buy him plenty of advertising. We were swamped with it from here in MN, whereas Clinton didn't even make much of a media buy here at all--we were written off for Clinton a couple of weeks ago by her campaign.

It remains to be seen if her big wins yesterday on both coasts will turn money out for her. Only the shadow government knows.