why can't Hillary close it?

The most interesting tidbit out of that poll is that she is losing the white vote.

Because the majority of Democrats don't want her to be their nominee.

The sooner we get used to that fact, the sooner we can concentrate on defeating McCain.  I, for one, can't wait to see who President Obama names to the Supreme Court in 2009.

registering thousands of new voters

I have been wondering lately whether BC is somewhat ambivalent towards Hillary's bid for the White House.  He seems out of control and undermines as frequently as he supports (South Carolina, losing his cool with the superdelegates in California, and this really stupid comment).  I don't know how, if you are used to being a political team, you separate yourself from your spouse, but he, along with some of her other advisors, has not served her purpose well in this campaign.  

It's time to focus 90% of energy against McCain, 10 % promoting one's own candidate, and 0% undermining the other candidate.

I think the hulabaloo over the twin states of Michigan and Florida, as misguided as it is, will nevertheless be a non-deciding factor in this race.  I think this thing is settled before the convention, and perhaps before the middle of May.

PA will be somewhat closer than expected, but still Hillary's, and then I think Obama will win NC handily, and then Indiana narrowly.  And then I think it is done.

The Clinton campaign will realize before the convention that a credentials committee fight over the Michigan and Florida delegates will be neither feasible nor palatable.  The Florida and Michigan delegates will be seated at the convention with nary a word but of curious notation by the mainstream media.  

I think this thing is closer to the end than anyone anticipated after Ohio and Texas.  a win, or a narrow win by Clinton, all but seals the deal earlier.  She is losing in money, the superdelegates have been dripping on the Obama end of the scale since March 4, and the polls are turning against her (if not towards Obama).  

There is also, I sense, and eagerness to meet McCain on in full, something not possible during a bitter campaign season.

But the Wright matter having killed none of Obama's appeal numerically (at least for the primary), I think we are coming faster, rather than slower (as predicted by many), to the denoument of this thing.  

And I get a sense that the Clinton campaign is also moving from the denial stage of loss to something that, if not quite acceptance, is beginning to take the shape of acceptance.  

You know Obama is doing well when the crowd at HillaryIS44 are complimenting Obama's efforts in NC:

April 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

One thing I will hand to the Obama campaign though-> I have friends who are in UNC Chapel Hill (undecided) that told me they've been getting calls and there have been on-campus canvassing done to register youth voters in full force.

NC is the home of fire and brimstone preaching, so any more nonsense about Wright will only hurt Hillary by making her look like a carpetbagger

Here is further insight into Hillary's character. "As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying. The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary�s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther � and goes much deeper � than anyone realizes. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy�s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation � one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman�s 17-year career. Why? �Because she was a liar,� Zeifman said in an interview last week. �She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality."� URL: :/stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/04/01/h illary-was-fired-from-congressional-job- for-unethical-behavior/trackback

Then we have Mark Penn's free-trade negotations with the Columbians which calls into questions from some unions like Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa who said the account calls into question Clinton's own credibility on the trade pact. "How can we trust that a President Hillary Clinton would stand strong against this trade deal when her top adviser is being paid by Colombia to promote it?" Hoffa said. "To support this so-called `free trade agreement' is anathema to the labor movement and to anyone who supports working people, social justice or the environment." AND Then WE Have: Greg Tarpinian, executive director of Change to Win, which has endorsed Obama and represents a coalition of unions actively working against the trade pact, called on Penn to resign his campaign post. "It's time for Senator Hillary Clinton to send her vaunted `chief strategist' Mark Penn packing -- back to his job consulting for union busting corporations and anti-labor governments for good," Tarpinian said in a statement.

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Every day Hillary supporters are speaking out in ways which continue to inflame race and gender, divide and conquer -- that is no way to run or win a race! If she was really concerned about African Americans and Womens' Issues then she and her surrogates would not be stating daily staements which further fuel the gender and racial divisions in this country in a misguided strategy of divide & conquer. Hillary and her camp have been shown to untruthful and unethical. When they get caught in their lies, they laugh it off and say they misspoke, misspeaked, and misstated. They are not honorable people and she does not show the kind of character that should be running the highest office in the land.