“He’s been dominating cable news like a missing white girl.” - The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on the recent media obsession with Obama’s (former?) pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright ...

Surely all y’all stayed up to watch the election returns last night/this morning, no?  Not to toot my own horn or anything, but it was a split decision between Obama and Clinton.  I’m somewhat mildly surprised (happily) that Obama nearly pulled off the big upset in IN.  I would never go so far as to call Clinton out, but she’s certainly down, and it looks like the money will not flow and she’ll be sucking fumes from her campaign plane to wheel into West Virginia and...and, where else?  Something tells me that Oregon will not be amongst the campaign ...

I’m pretty sure I saw Paul Krugman on my NJ Transit train this morning. He was sitting across and two seats behind me in a quarter-full car and was typing on a laptop. I know he’s affiliated with Princeton, and he might have been going there — I was on an express train and Princeton was the next stop after Newark. I’ve disagreed with stuff he’s written about Clinton and Obama lately, but I wouldn’t have known what to say to him. ...

A Hills surrogate called me two nights ago. This isn't an altogether unique experience, until he brazenly asked me outright for $100. I slowly told him that I waived the white flag a few months ago, and that I looked forward to the Obama/Clinton ticket. With the over-60 crowd stubbornly refusing to wake up and smell the cappuccino, the dread is spreading and I'm not feeling so chipper about November. ...

So the Clinton camp is left claiming that the states they originally agreed to leave behind - Florida and Michigan - are theirs or else. This after they have played the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink gamebook on Obama.Tonight there was no doubt left that she is done, finished, kaput. I don't say that because I am a misogynist or a Hillary-hater or an elitist or whatever else others might say. I am just a realist.Superdelegates! History is calling! Do your thing! ...

Via Brad DeLong... EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect: Nothing is misspelled, and the grammar all seems in order, but something seems wrong with an article headlined "Dueling Appeals On Taxes From Obama, Clinton" that never explains what the dueling tax appeals are... Emphasis mine.  This is the fucking Washington Post he's talking about there, not People [...] ...