Super Friday for Obama; Clintons still in fantasyland

Bill Clinton -- who is reportedly among the people pushing his wife hardest to keep fighting, all the way to the convention if necessary -- told West Virginia voters today that an overwhelming turnout coupled with an overwhelming Hillary margin in the Mountaineer State (and neighboring Kentucky) can make the "earth move." Why? Because of that wonderfully illegitimate metric, the "popular vote," of course:

"She can win the popular vote, she is clearly the most electable according to all the national polls, and between now and August, the superdelegates are gonna have to think long and hard about how badly they want to win."

Meanwhile, back here on planet Earth, Obama made a net gain of 7 superdelegates today -- including a nod from the superdelegate superblogger, Mr. Super -- and he has now overtaken Clinton in some media superdelegate counts, for the first time in the campaign. (The count I trust the most, DemConWatch, has Hillary still up, but by a measly 1.5 super votes. So it's only a matter of time. Like, maybe a few more hours, the way today has been going.)

In other news, Rasmussen Reports will be stopping its daily tracking poll of the Democratic race:

[W]hile Senator Clinton has remained close and competitive in every meaningful measure, she is a close second and the race is over. It has become clear that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. ... With this in mind, Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. Barring something totally unforeseen, that is the choice American voters will have before them in November. While we have not firmly decided upon a final day for tracking the Democratic race, it is coming soon.

And, on an unrelated note, Joe Lieberman would like you to know that he, uh, checked John McCain's bearings, and, uh, they're just fine.

Teehee.

Comments

[Gardner]

Yes, but Barack has visited 57 states.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/09/obama-i-want-to-be-president-of-all-57-states/

I know, he meant to say 47, but it's funny

[Ragna]

In the last 30 minutes or so the DemConWatch site gives me a Google erro.
Is anyone else having this problem?