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- Mitt Romney cuts his (very substantial) losses. His explanation? If he stayed in it would help Clinton and Obama and that would help the terrorists win. Have we ever actually seen Romney and Stephen Colbert in the same place at the same time?
- You might imagine this will hurt McCain since he now faces a united opposition, but Michael Barone makes the opposite case convincingly.
- One sign of how glum Republicans are about McCain? Attendees at CPAC had to be instructed not to boo his appearance.
- On the Democratic side it's all about the M-O-N double E. Obama got a lot of press for raising about $7.9 million (including $320,000 from MoveOn.org) after Feb 5 and the revelation that Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million last month. Clinton, however, has now raised $6.4 million over the same period (and the story about senior staff going without pay seems to be false). The big question is how many of those donors are maxed out. For Obama it's only 3 percent.
- More evidence that all of this talk about Clinton being in trouble is just talk: She's preparing to compete hard in Obama-friendly Virginia.
- Jay Newton-Small pens an absurd piece for Swampland arguing that Obama is now the front runner that doesn't mention Clinton's delegate lead (including superdelegates). Guess the "momentumcrats" aren't all gone. Seriously though, why exactly is the media in the business of anointing "frontrunners?" Why can't the race just be tied?
- Finally, whatever happens at the convention, Joe Lieberman won't be there. He's been stripped of his superdelegate status (and won't be replaced, making the total number of superdelegates 795).
--Sam Boyd
