Obama won Vermont, Hillary won Rhode Island. Big states being truculent as of 10 pm. It's worth remarking, though, on John McCain's win tonight, which finally secured him the Republican nomination. His has been among the most remarkable political comebacks of our age. A few months ago, his campaign was dead, his staff fired, his bank account dry, his name a punchline. Tonight, he's the Republican nominee, and particularly as the Democratic race drags out, he looks fairly formidable. And whatever else you want to say about the guy, he didn't win by capitulating to hardcore xenophobes, like Romney attempted to do, or by running a campaign of blatant fear mongering, like Giuliani. He won by being solidly wrong on just about every issue facing the republic, and unaware of a couple others, but he wasn't venal about it. And in the Republican primary, that's something.
