Wolfgang, I realized you point this out, but I have to restate that the article you posted "Will the Democrats Commit Political Suicide?" was exceptionally poorly written.

The main premise seems to me that Obama can't win because independent and undecided voters didn't vote for him in Pennsylvania. Of course we know that that would have been a hard bar to cross because they were not allowed to vote in Pennsylvania.

I think that Obama does have something to celebrate because, in spite of the pounding he took, he still closed by ten points in the polls.

Gabor Steingart also doesn't seem to be taking the opponents into account.
Hillary's social policies are about at the same level as Obama's and both will do a lot more to stimulate the economy with less debt than McCains plan of continued expensive policing of Iraq combine with tax cuts for the wealthy.

George W. Bush, had no landslide, he squeaked a victory, 300,000 votes in Ohio was the margin. and now 70% of the country is against the war and 82 percent say the country is on the wrong track.

Hillary has not expressed caution about the war, she has gone promise for promise with Obama.

It is idiotic to say that Obama is the party favorite. He won favor by winning but Hillary is the penultimate Democratic party insider next to her husband.

Gabor Steingart is twisting and torturing the facts to fit his preconceptions. It is refreshing to see that so many US journalists are not alone in this trait.