Definitely not the time to take out any champagne. But I'll take it.

On the whole elitist thing:

Over the past 7 years the Clintons earned $109,000,000. That's $42,661 per day for those of you like me that Hillary is telling should be insulted.

Frankly - I'm bitter that someone who earns as much in a day as I do in a year is running down a fellow Democrat who has spent the bulk of his working career doing community development in one of the poorest and toughest neighborhoods in Chicago.

Seriously, that pisses me off.

A veteran at a Town Hall Meeting in PA today expressed anger about Clinton's recent attacks and asked Obama if he thought Clinton's charges of elitism were "coming dangerously close to calling you uppity."

The man who asked this was white. If he's angry, one can only imagine what African-Americans are feeling about Clinton's charges. Watch for his numbers among AA to go up in the next week.

HILLMENTUM!!!!
Keep chugging on that Crown Royal, Shrillary...

"coming dangerously close to calling you uppity."

My jaw just dropped.

wowwww.

Obama is going to beat the living daylights out of McCain.

This is just further evidence that the Democratic electorate wants the primary campaign over as soon as possible. While the extended campaign has certainly made Obama a better candidate and been great for expanding the ranks of the party, enough is enough already. I have yet to read one objective observer who believes that HRC will be able to catch up in the number of pledged delegates OR will be unable to convince 70% of the remaining supers to break her way. For the good of the party and her own career, HRC should gracefully suspend her campaign after Indiana and North Carolina. In the unlikely event that the Obama campaign implodes before late August, she can always swoop in as the proverbial “white night” at that time and unite the party then.

Bittergate appears to be backfiring big-time. Sen. Clinton's Hail Mary seems to have hit a ref with the football.

Even deluded dems who long ago lost the ability to know the source of their own memories couldn't keep this going with a straight face. It is utterly facinating that the reaction from Sen Clinton and Sen McCain is identical. Identical! On not just on this!

Because what Obama keeps doing is telling the truth in the form of bitter pills for some. Those who love the truth know the bitterness was put the military credit card beginning in 2000.

Now it comes due.

Pax,
M.

I think the "elitist" cloud is starting to show a serious silver lining for Obama. This is turning out to be a fantastic opportunity for him to highlight his middle-America, humble upbringing. I would wager that there are a whole lot of folks (that don't follow the news like the readers of this blog do), not just in Pennsylvania and Indiana, but in Kentucky and West Virginia too that assumed based on his education that Obama came from means. The ears of the common man/woman have been perked up by this "controversy" - as anyone who feels that they have been the object of ridicule would be - but what they are hearing is a lot of stuff about a guy who grew up poor and worked his way through school on his brains and sweat. As others have said, I think this may end up being a MAJOR miscalculation for Clinton.

People of Small Town America. This is your Queen, Hillary of Tuzla, speaking. I command you to be outraged. Thou shalt not think for yourselves. Now do as I command. Be outraged, now!

Heavy is the head that wears the Royal Crown. Bring me another Crown Royal.

Burb.....hic.......fart.....hic......scuze me.....

I am Queen Hillary and I approve of this message.

I like how EastWest, MarginalPlayer, Gotalife, fogu, and other trolls whose names I'm repressing are taking turns carrying out their trollery.

I know - it's so cute. It's like when I was in Junior High and my girl friends and I would all get together on the phone after school and decide what we were going to wear the next day. Or whose ass we were going to kick.

EastWest, Obama can not control the fact that an elderly white man feels that Clinton is being predjudiced against him. If you watch the clip (http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4658330) you will see that almost the first thing to come out of Obama's mouth after the man finished speaking was, "I don't think there are racial overtones to what is happening right now" and then proceeds to push for an end to the politics of division. So you can make all the accusations and predictions you want, but I challenge you to find one quote from Obama where he is accuses his opponents of using race against him or plays the racial victim.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=7413805&ch=4226716&src=news

Check this link out, surprisingly on ABC news, Obama calls these times "political silly season"... He is so right!

He addresses the whole "elite" argument.

None of this dumb stuff is sticking to him and I know why, Americans are worried, things are not good. I wish it wasn't so, but it is. People need change. If anyone is out of touch, it is Washington elites like Clinton, McCain etc. Go Obama!

Let's keep making calls to PA, Indiana etc. We cannot rest on polls like these, people have to go vote!

And about as creative as Obamabots...eh, EastWest?

Thank the gods and goddesses that we still have Rude Pundit.

I do not really believe these polls, but I still think that we are going to win IN and keep it close in PA, so I guess that my skepticism about Bloomberg's operation is rather beside the point. I still arrive at the same point that they do.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

As much as I'm poll weary, I'm very interested in the one out of ND. Obama up over McCain... in NORTH FRIGGIN DAKOTA? I know it's early, but hot damn. I hope to see more map scrambling signs like this in months to come.

idiotic,

You are so correct . . . This is GREAT news for Hillary Clinton!

McCain-Clinton '08

Inflicting the politics of division and hate upon flesh and blood Americans while planning the greatest corporate reach around of all time.

Come on.

No one has done more for the people of Indiana and North Carolina than Barack Obama.

I have blown off all polls, however, there is a definite "feel' now that things are just going to keep slipping downward for HRC. For the first time I see the handwriting on the wall, no great comeback. She might have to join McCain's campaign since she is a master at making a nothing turn to something for a few days. Maybe she can work texting from the duck blind :)

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR you know who...

Who knows, of course, how reliable these are, but if any real indication, the relevance of the Indiana number alone is HUGE.

Hillary will win PA. And Obama looks poised to comfortably win NC on May 6. But if Obama can sweep May 6 by taking NC AND Indiana, chances are good that Hillary will face the heaviest pressure yet to drop out.

Fingers crossed.

Talking Polls Memo: all polls, all the time; most meaning very little. This lull between primaries is dreadful. I never thought I'd say this after the 500 we have seen already this election season, but I'm excited about the debate tomorrow.

Meanwhile, we have Hillary the Gun-Toting, Christian Defender of the working class.

Could Hillary the Pro-Lifer be far behind? Is there anything she won't say or do?

I believe that the LA Times recently laid off their revered pollster under the new Zell regime. Zell loathes both Clinton and Obama and has made it clear none of his Tribune Co. newspapers is to endorse either of them. The poll numbers and methodology are very suspect. I'm willing to bet that Survey USA as Eric well knows will be far more accurate. Their track record this year has been remarkable.