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CNN projects that Barack Obama will win the Wisconsin Democratic primary.

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[Tom Hanks]

She is going to come out with guns blazing for PA.

[dcl]

The problem is the more she loses the more vicious and strident she becomes. And the more vicious and strident she gets the worse it is for the party. Time for her to hang it up and go home.

[Gardner]

The gig's up, the Clinton's just don't know it yet.

[Alec]

In the 2004 General Election, voters in the <£50k income category represented 48% of the turnout in OH and 52% of the turnout in PA - and I can only assume that it was an even higher percentage of the Democratic vote in both cases.

If Clinton's ascendancy in that category is starting to slip (see tonight's exits), then the road ahead does start to look pretty tough.

[dcl]

Is that supposed to be 50k pounds sterling, or did you mean dollars. Because 50k pounds would be closer to 100k dollars... Which is a rather massive difference in terms of demographic math.

DCL - sorry, hit the wrong key. I meant dollars.

[dcl]

fair enough.

[Lauren]

I just cannot wait for the irony of Al Gore telling the Clintons it's time to back away and give up the fight. Al Gore putting the smack down on the Clintons. Does that go right up there with winning the Nobel for him?

[Joe Mama]

Chris Matthews was hammering one of Obama's spokespersons for not being able to name a single legislative accomplishment of Obama's in the Senate. Although perhaps an unfair question given that Obama hasn't even finished his first term, I'd expect this to be a major talking point going forward.

[yea]

hes secured additional funding for veterans medical care and for energy development.

far more significant in my opinion that what he accomplished in ~2 years of senate time, is what he will likely be able to accomplish as president. i think everyone realizes his lack of experience in washington, and his supporters see it as an asset rather than a detriment.

[Joe Mama]

I don't know on what basis to determine "what he will likely be able to accomplish as president", and this particular surrogate didn't consider "additional funding for veterans medical care and for energy development" to be a legislative accomplishment.

[Aaron]

I wouldn't try to defend Obama as a dynamo of legislative accomplishment, but here is a success from his Illinois Senate days. The key graf:

One of his greatest legislative triumphs was a bill to require the videotaping of all confessions and interrogations in capital cases. Initially, police, state prosecutors, and the newly elected Democratic governor were strongly opposed, some death-penalty abolitionists viewed the bill as too moderate, and legislators were afraid of being soft on crime. But Obama led daily negotiations (without reporters) during which he emphasized his opponents' common values. At the end, the bill had the support of all parties, passed unanimously, and today has been adopted as a model by four states and the District of Columbia.

A small thing maybe, but one that I think speaks well of him.

Also, as I'm sure any conservative would agree - especially the ones who are lukewarm at best supporters of McCain - "accomplishment" isn't always a good thing.

[Andrew]

A small thing maybe, but one that I think speaks well of him.

Good. Let him run for Attorney General then.