Sigh. Don't let us down Texas.

Yes, grab the spotlight while you still can, Shrillary. Reality soon to hit.

By the way, I'm glad they called this so early. I think the cities in Ohio, with large African American populations, will surely love Clinton gloating so early. Perfect.

Way to call it when they'll be counting votes in the most populous (and pro-Obama) counties til 4:30 AM. The MSM shows anti-Clinton bias? NOT.

Olberman is over the top -- he simply can't believe that the race is still proceeding. He is making Matthews look reasonable.

the delegate math will likely not be such excellent news(!!!) for princess pantsuits....
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4341

idiotic does have a way with words.

In a stunning comeback, Clinton wins running against the biased corporate media, biased left wing blogs and the RW.

What a fighter and we need a fighter to win back the WH.

BARACK. If things don't budge in 2 days (ie - Superdelegate sit-down), hit back hard for real. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Her crowd just spontaneously broke out in cheers when she said something like "When there's a crisis and that phone rings at 3 AM...".

Yay! Yay for fearmongering!

In the past I have, I hope, graciously congratulated Clinton for her wins.

But because of her campaign tactics--and since none of the Clinton supporters have returned the favour in the past--I feel no obligation to do so today. Instead, I would like to take a moment to vent.

These past two weeks and in particular the coverage of these past two weeks have been complete bullshit. Clinton is using every single disgraceful, filthy, shameful and repugnant tactic she can. She and her supporters have been lying and deceiving, playing the victim and brutally exploiting the worst possible elements of the electorate to tear down Obama--not to gain Clinton any voters but to stop Obama from getting any more. Clinton has run to her ceiling and her only frail hope to cling to her dream is in trying to destroy Obama by whatever means necessary from stirring up racial and ethnic hysteria to callously exploiting falsehoods. She is despicable. At times I really do hope that Obama gives up so that Clinton (or, more likely, McCain) can perpetuate the pain that America is in until finally enough people understand the importance of what Obama stood for in this election.

That said, that is exactly what she wants us to feel. Like a vampire she sucks away the positive energy to leave cynicism and disaffection because that will make us stay home. The only way she can win is by losing the next generation and those in favour of a new kind of government.

So, I would encourage everyone to get through the personal catharsis and get back to it with renewed energy tomorrow or the day after.

You know of all the things I can't stand about the Bush administration the very worst of it is their pandering to fear, to the very worst in us, to our willingness to go to war on emotion and cause hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, to our willingness to give up our civil liberties out of fear. This is the campaign Hillary is waging. Hillary ROVE Clinton is going to put Bush's war and fearmongering back in the White House.

Be honest. Hillary is having a very good night.

It's 10:30pm central and I'm guessing she's going to end up winning the popular vote in Texas too. I just got back from my Texas caucus. I think she'll carry the state's popular vote, but probably not the delegate count. That observation isn't based on my personal experience, of course, which is only anecdotal.

She'll still be woefully behind in delegates but for the next week, most ordinary people won't really care. They'll just see a "big Hillary win." Watch for the calls from her supporters for Obama to drop out. We'll hear them starting tonight.

Texas is not over by a long shot for Obama. Check the SOS page. Harris County only has 1 precint reported as of 10:30 pm. I just got out of the caucus and it was 12-1 Obama vs Hillary.

Also, in Ohio, Cleveland still needs to be counted so the margin there will be tighter.

On Super Tuesday, as I watched the returns, I figured it was Clinton's night and she would thence coast to the nomination. I was disappointed, but resigned, and would have voted for her in the GE (albeit with some reservations). But after the truly despicable campaign she has run the past two weeks, I will be damned if I want to see her in the White House. She and her husband disgust me. They can only win by tearing others down. That's supposed to be what Republicans do.

My wife will vote for her, but I never will. I'll throw my vote to McCain rather than perpetuate the myth that Dems like her are any different.

The gloating of the Hillbots over her sleaze tactics will be short lived when they have to ask everyone they've spit on to come back to the fold. McCain will obliterate her.

How odd. Flush phlegmball tells the dittoheads to vote for Hillary. Hillary then wins many, many small Texas counties, such as Crockett. What's odd about her winning there? Well, that county went for idiot boy and the evil dick in 04 by 72 to 28 percent. Now granted, there's not much suspense in the anointing of St. McCain, but how many votes were cast in Crocket County in the repiglican primary today? 0. 0 for McCain, 0 for Huckabee, and 0 for libertarian zealot and native son Ron Paul. That's right folks, a county that went over 70% for shrub in 04 managed to turn out NOT ONE R primary voter today. Thank the fat and malicious one...

TX called for Hillary by MSNBC!!! Go Hillary! No I can drink my beer

Yup, yup! Go Hillary! All the way to the Whitehouse! Yes she will..yes she will...yes she will...LOL

Hillary for President!

Woohoo!! My girl won Ohio, Rhode Island & Texas!!!!

I'm fired up again and will definitely get more involved with her campaign. I'm excited about PA - it's nearby New York, which means I'll be able to help her campaign with sneakers on the ground ;-)

I'm feeling rather festive today and the endorphins are flowing aplenty!

And whose supporters (Obama's) cheat by 1) intimidating Clinton's supporters in the caucuses by shouting them down or
2)locking them out of the caucus rooms (as reported by dems in Texas.)

Shameful!!!

If Hillary wins the nomination…she will surely win over Republicans, Independents, and of course Democrats regardless of the superficial polls. By contrast, if Obama gets the nomination, Republicans, Latinos in California and Texas, and the disenfranchised voters in Florida and Michigan will definitely vote for John McCain! Lets be real…why would any American trust Obama as Commander in Chief when he had the opportunity to Chair a committee with NATO to address the growing hostility in the Middle East, but never felt compelled to hold a single meeting! His inaction resounds of President Bush! Secondly, he has no military endorsements like Senator Clinton, (nor does John McCain for that matter) regardless of his supposed CAMPAIGN speech against the war. He (Obama) has been much too eager after his election to the Senate, to pursue loftier goals instead of representing his constituents of Illinois. What a disservice to those who elected him!

I am awed by the military support that overwhelmingly endorses Hillary Clinton for Commander in Chief as opposed to Barack Obama or John McCain (ouch!). Look at the Generals that are endorsing her:
· General Wesley Clark
· General John M. Shalikashvili
· General Henry Hugh Shelton
· General Johnnie E. Wilson
· Admiral William Owens
· Lt. Gen. Joe Ballard
· Lt. Gen. Robert Gard
· Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy
· Lt. Gen. Donald L. Kerrick
· Lt. Gen. Frederick E. Vollrath
· Vice Admiral Joseph A. Sestak
· Major General Roger R. Blunt
· Major General George A. Buskirk, Jr.
· Major General Edward L. Correa, Jr.
· Major General Paul D. Eaton
· Major General Paul D. Monroe, Jr.
· Major General Antonio M. Taguba
· Rear Admiral Connie Mariano
· Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman
· Rear Admiral David Stone
· Brigadier General Michael Dunn
· Brigadier General Belisario Flores
· Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote
· Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr
· Brigadier General Virgil A. Richard
· Brigadier General Preston Taylor
· Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr.
Brigadier General Jack Yeager

Checking out what's still yet to report in Ohio, it appears as though much of it is Cuyahoga county, which is only currently listed at 44%. If current voting trends there stay on track, this should mean about another 9K Obama votes and about a 54%-43% win for Clinton.

It looks like Obama is going to win the majority of Texas's delegates, however. He's done almost exactly as predicted for the delegates in the primary -- basically a push -- while leading in the caucus with 34% reporting, 55% - 45%.

Vermont and Rhode Island will each result in about a 3 delegate shift for each candidate, so Hillary's overall gain for the night is looking to be maybe 10-20 delegates, from what I can tell.

That's about the same as Obama's gain for his strong win in Wisconsin... and based on current polling, Obama will probably restore his margin with wins in Wyoming and Mississippi.

So, tactically, tonight could be called a minor Clinton victory, but strategically, it's a minor Obama victory. Basically, he wins by not losing traditionally blue states by large margins, while winning traditionally red Democrat states by very large margins. Meanwhile, I think we have to see what the superdelegates do. My guess is that Obama will pull even in superdelegates if he gets wins in both Wyoming and Mississippi, in part because lots of party Democrats do not want to wait until Pennsylvania, because it will financially and structurally weaken the party.

I think that Obama or his supporters have to prepare to go strongly negative against Hillary, clearly spelling out her record as First Lady, Travelgate, her repeated use of "I do not recall..." in testimony, her failure to turn over subpoenaed files, her well-documented White House rages and tantrums as indicated by former members of the Clinton administration.

She threatens to bring things to the convention, so the best thing that Obama's surrogates can do is to make the strong case that she's a dangerous, loose cannon, in order to make sure that superdelegates will not support an unelectable candidate.

In other words, they've "kitchen sinked" Obama, he has to be prepared to do the same to her, in order to destroy her credibility. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to do this.

She needs to know, basically, that if she continues this fight, it will permanently damage her career.

Barack Obama's endorsements from the military include not only several generals, but also far more of the people who actually give the generals their walking orders:

Clifford Alexander, Jr., former Secretary of the Army
Susan Ahn Cuddy, first female gunner officer in the U.S. Navy and daughter of Korean Independence fighter Ahn Chang-ho
Tom Daniels, Texas Air National Guard
Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy
Donald Joseph Guter, former Judge Advocate General of the Navy, current Dean, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh
Richard D. Hearney, former Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
John Hutson, former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy
Jeh Johnson, former General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force
Lester Lyles, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Merrill A. McPeak, former Secretary of the United States Air Force
John B. Nathman, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations
F. Whitten Peters, former Secretary of the Air Force
James Smith, former Deputy Commander, Joint Warfare Center, US Joint Forces Command

...and yes, he should get out a daily ticker, reminding people how long it has been since she promised to turn over her tax records to the public.

"Hillary looks poised to grab this moment and milk it for all it's worth"

Do you really think milk was the best and most appropriate word to use. I did not see that term when NAFTA serial lier Obama won a state. I think TPM is letting more and more bias on the front page. Keep it up and you will be just like the traditional media, a bunch of gas bags stumping for your candidate and doing everything you can to distort Hillary's views. It looks like it will come to a point when we will not be able to tell the difference between ABC, CBS, FOX, TPM, Daily Obama, The Obama Post....etc...

I'm so disgusted with Clinton supporters. Ignorant fools are keeping this race going when she can't catch up. Truly amazing. I hope you're happy with your candidate's negative tactics and smear campaign, not to mention the incredible damage you're causing the party.

Please get out, Hillary. You are helping your GOP friends well ahead of the campaign in the fall.