Stephanopolous on the Clinton campaign: "Yes, toast. Hill needs a miracle. Even though this race is going to go on. Hillary Clinton will keep on campaigning. She's going to campaign in West Virginia today, but this nomination fight is over." (via americablog) ...

The Victory Fund reports: "Last night, while most political onlookers were watching the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Indiana and North Carolina, a Virginia resident quietly made history as he became the state’s first openly LGBT African-American elected to public office. In his first bid for elected office, Lawrence Webb won a seat on the Falls Church City Council by a margin of 39 votes. He joins two other candidates on the City Council: Nader Baroukh and Robin S. Gardner." Said Webb: “I am grateful that the citizens of Falls Church have entrusted me with the responsibility ...

Barack Obama got a sweeping win in North Carolina but failed to close the deal, as Clinton prevailed by a small margin in Indiana. That’s right, read into the win what you will, hold it up to the light and examine it for what it’s worth. You have a few more days to dream of that Obama Bloomberg ticket; ain’t gonna happen. Change is gonna come but it ain’t gonna come with John Edwards. When all is said and done Barack Obama will perform the ultimate act of reconciliation, a statesmanlike gesture so grand that it will place Hillary Clinton ...

Two points. That’s Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory in Indiana, where pundits, pollsters and press thought the Senator would surely trounce Barack Obama for the Democratic primary. Obama, however, surprised us all by securing a projected 49% of the vote, while soaring ahead in North Carolina, where he took a whopping - and telling - 56% of the vote. Clinton, meanwhile, only grabbed 42% of the Tar Heel State, giving Obama a fourteen point margin of victory. And a considerable delegate boost: at least ninety-four. So, where do the Democratic presidential candidates go from here? Well, the next primaries, ...

The Associated Press is reporting that Hillary Clinton loaned her campaign $6.4 million over the last month. [MSNBC] ...

Wow, I thought that North Carolina was going to be a win for Obama. I was thinking by 8 points. While the votes are still being counted, it appears that Barack Obama will beat Hillary Clinton by more than 15 points. As I said before, this doesn’t change anything. Hillary Clinton was behind without a realistic means of catching up before North Carolina. Now, she is slightly farther behind without a realistic means of catching up. ...

With Indiana and North Carolina, the largest cache of delegates before the convention in Denver, finished their voting process.  What have we learned?  Nothing.  Nothing will be decided.  Both candidates will have more votes and more delegates.  Neither will drop out of the race.  And so it goes. I have been trying to look for a silver lining in all of this.  Because everytime a candidate blows his or her nose, it is reported as news.  The real crime is that we have had enough time for the news to completely cover each candidate’s position on real issues but they haven’t.  ...

This is an excellent video put together by TPM media. (I wish I had the staff to put this kind of stuff together.) I think that it clearly shows that Hillary Clinton is pandering for votes. The gas tax holiday is bad on so many levels. These are clips from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton along with news personalities talking about the gas tax holiday. ...

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue their fight for the Democratic nomination to Indiana and North Carolina tomorrow. The latest polls have Obama up by an average of 6.5 points in North Carolina and Clinton up by an average of 4.6 points in Indiana.Over the weekend the big news was that Obama won the Guam caucuses by a mere 7 (count 'em, folks!) votes out of nearly 4500 cast, and will thus pick up 2 superdelegates (they split Guam's 4 eleected delegates evenly).Today, Obama picked up 3 more super-delegates. ...

Hillary Clinton seems poised to blow Barack Obama out of the electoral water. The Senator’s campaign today confirmed a report that they plan to use their pals on the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee to validate Michigan and Florida’s previously invalidated primary counts. Those state weren’t meant to count because they broke rank and held their primaries early. Both Clinton and Obama previously wagged their finger at those states, and Obama even yanked his name from the Michigan ballot. Now that she’s down, however, Mrs. Clinton’s hoping her allies can push her over the edge: With at least 50 percent ...

TCR has been blogging about the gas tax for several days.  Yesterday, he seemed to put everything together.  He said it better than I could or have.  The gas tax holiday is really a window into Hillary Clinton and her campaign.  It reflects that I will say anything and do anything to get elected mentality.  There is no line that she will not cross.  There is no bar that is too low. TCR - After writing five posts in five days on the increasingly-ridiculous debate over a “gas-tax holiday,” I was prepared to let the subject ...

From Notes from the Underground 5/3/08:The pro-Clinton group Women's Voices has been robo-calling minority neighborhoods in North Carolina with a message stating that voting registration materials will be sent to their homes in the next few days. These calls have gone out to registered voters, and the NC voting board says the distributed information is completely false. The purpose of the phone calls is to create doubts in the minds of potential Obama voters regarding their registration, in hopes that they'll stay home on Election day.The group is run largely by pro-Clinton operatives, included Clinton Campaign Manager Maggie ...

It's official. Hillary Clinton is a batshit crazy Republican.From ABC News 5/4/08:ABC News' Mary Bruce reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., defended this morning her comments that she would "obliterate" Iran if Iran ever attacked Israel with nuclear weapons."Why would I have any regrets?" she asked in an exclusive appearance on a special edition of "This Week" from Indianapolis, Ind. "I'm asked a question about what I would do if Iran attacked our ally, a country that many of us have a great deal of, you know, connection with and feeling for, for all kinds of reasons. ...

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The LGBT press logged its most active week to date in terms of accessing the presidential candidates, as local outlets in North Carolina and Indiana published interviews with senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ahead of the May 6 primaries.  Read the full story ...

“Highly entertaining.” - Newsweek “Five minutes of your life you will never get back.” - Dallas Morning News I totally made those up. The Friday Night Cartoons are in the post prior to this. Update (for real - I did not make this up): “If Senator Obama is the nominee, you better believe I’ll work my heart out for him.” — Hillary Clinton, May 2, 2008. ShareThis ...

Of the seventeen New York Times staffers who have made (potentially unethical) political donations this season, the majority favor Barack Obama, who received $4,072. Hillary Clinton, who the paper endorsed, only received $500. [Petrelis Files] ...

Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina is under fire for using the word “pansy”, which has caused a public outcry by gay rights groups. What??? He used the word upon announcing his support for Hillary Clinton, stating that he felt Clinton made Rocky Bolboa “look like a pansy.” The character of Rocky is an American icon of strength and endurance, with an undefeated spirit. All the Governor was saying is that Hillary is even stronger than Rocky. I truly don’t believe it was a homophobic remark in any shape or form. But gay rights groups argue that “pansy” is a word for gay people, ...

I have the distinct pleasure of knowing Tucson’s own Amanda Simpson. She is not only a truly amazing, dynamic woman, but she’s a genuine trailblazer as well. She’s as been a local activist and former member of the City of Tucson Commission on GLBT Issues, and she was the first transgender nominee to run for the Arizona House of Representatives. So I was tickled pink to learn that she was selected to be an at-large delegate to this year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. She will be there as a delegate for Sen. Hillary Clinton, and she “will ...

We wonder if Hillary Clinton knows her strategist and pal Sidney Blumenthal - who coined the term “vast right-wing conspiracy” - has been distributing right wing articles attacking rival Barack Obama. [HuffPo] ...