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- Well March 4th has come and gone and now we're ... right where we were before except Clinton has about ten extra pledged delegates and now we'll be waiting a month and half for results in Pennsylvania instead of Ohio and Texas. Oh, and McCain will certainly be the Republican nominee whereas yesterday ... he was certain to be the nominee. Great. And, unlike the first couple of weeks of February, it looks like the next six will be filled with negative damaging attacks. On the plus side for Democrats, what historical evidence there is suggests that divisive presidential primaries don't affect the eventual nominee's shot at winning.
- Clinton is still saying that McCain is better qualified to be commander in chief than Obama. Not exactly the best way to woo superdelegates I'd imagine.
- The Obama campaign is finally starting to give as good as it gets -- it's now calling on Clinton to release her tax returns from the period after she left the White House. She says she'll do so on April 15th which is a little weird -- if there's nothing to hide why not do it now? If there is, why do it a week before the election?
- Obama is also promising a more agressive stance generally.
- Marc Ambinder puts together a scenario that results in an exact delegate tie. Lovely. It's a bit unlikely, but possible and it doesn't include Florida and Michigan which may vote again.
- There is some good news for Democrats though, the ad campaign attacking McCain as "McSame" is on the air in Ohio and Pennsylvania and the group backing it is going to spend at least $1,000,000 on the ad buy. See it and read more here. Also check out Think Progress's amusing gallery of photos of Bush and McCain cuddling.
- Michael Scherer explains just how lucky McCain has been so far.
--Sam Boyd
