http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/pol iticians/helms/story/1135443.html

The tide is certainly turning. Does anyone know if the North Carolina press is picking up this story?
It speaks volumes that at the end of the day, a Caucasian decided to take a stand against what Jesse Helms stood for. This bodes well for the Democratic Party in Norht Carolina.

I love watching the two campaigns go at each other. I love even more watching the Obama campaign show restraint, while Hillco throws everything but the kitchen sink at him.

But every once in a while, Barack Obama shows that one of his strongest assets in knowing how to pick the right people....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/03/ob ama_campaign_skewers_clinton.html

Well, it's been lovely ride, but the end is in sight. Both Hillary and Barack have made comments recently about the joint ticket. Essientially, Hillary has said that she is open to the idea (if that is where this process is going) but who will be at the top of the ticket has to be determined. Barack has said  that he is not even entertaining the idea, and I have no reason to beleive otherwise at this time.

In order for people to really understand the significance of last night, you must take the total of the Democrat who won and compare that against the Republican won. Then you need to look at the states where the Democratic winner beats the Republican winner but the Democratic loser does not.THAT will give you the best indicator in the GE on who is the best democratic candidate.
 Under this logic we see that in IL,CA, NY, NJ, both Hillary AND Obama beat the Republican contender, but we knew that already.

Let's see who is a better candidate for the General election  and a true 50-state strategy....

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primari es/results/dates/#20080205

Barack beats  Huckabee in ALABAMA
Obama crushes Huck in Georgia.
Obama  beats Romney in Colorado.

Clinton beats Huck in Arkansas.

For the remaining states, Hillary and Obama are called 'Dems'.
Dems beat Romney in MN.
Dems beat McCain in MO
Dems beat McCain  in OK
Dems beat Huck in TN
Dems destroy McCain in Connecticut.
Dems win in DE
Dems win in MA.  

Dems lose ALaska
Dems lose AZ
Dems lose UT.

There is a lot of debate on this site. Some good. Most of it is minutiae.

When Hillary waited until they were together until she decided to walk over a greet Ted, does anyone think  that was an accident? She knew that he would shake her hand, and with Obama standing there it makes a great photo op, to diffuse what has been the biggest endorsement in the primary to date.

At the very least.  

But I would like to ask a different question to you Hillary supporters..

"What would you have liked for Barack to do while his most prominent endorser chats with his main political rival?"

For once stop with the rhetoric and answer the question.

Should he have just stood there looking awkward? That photo op would have been a nice win for Hillary.
Should he have extended  his hand when obviously Hillary didn't come over to shake it?  Perhaps, but why? Does anyone here try to shake hands with people who are conversing with someone else?
Perhaps he have felt insulted that she basically walked over, talked to Ted and ignored him? Maybe he thought, SHE snubbed him?

No he did the civil thing. Just try to look away while Ted tries to mend a friendship.

And by the way, how did he 'snub' her, if she wasn't looking to shake his any anyway?

The next thing you all will be saying is that it was a TOTAL accident that she decided to wait until they were standing right next to each before she came over.

If she really was being genuine in trying to display a PDA for her old friend, she would have waited until Barack wasn't around and Ted wouldn't have felt embarrassed.
Or better yet, meet with him privately to tell him , "no hard feelings."

I saw this on thehill.com http://thehill.com/dick-morris/how-clinton-will-win-the-nomination-by-losing-s.c.-2008-01-23.html

HOW CLINTON WILL WIN THE NOMINATION BY LOSING SOUTH CAROLINA

By Dick Morris
TheHill

Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly lose the South Carolina primary as African-Americans line up to vote for Barack Obama. And that defeat will power her drive to the nomination.

The Clintons are encouraging the national media to disregard the whites who vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary and focus on the black turnout, which is expected to be quite large.

They have transformed South Carolina into Washington, D.C. -- an all-black primary that tells us how the African-American vote is going to go.

By saying he will go door to door in black neighborhoods in South Carolina matching his civil rights record against Obama's, Bill Clinton emphasizes the pivotal role the black vote will play in the contest. And by openly matching his record on race with that of the black candidate, he invites more and more scrutiny focused on the race issue.

Of course, Clinton is going to lose that battle.

Blacks in Nevada overwhelmingly backed Obama and will obviously do so again in South Carolina, no matter how loudly former President Clinton protests. So why is he making such a fuss over a contest he knows he's going to lose?

Precisely because he is going to lose it. If Hillary loses South Carolina and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama's ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go out loud and clear to white voters that this is a racial fight.

It's one thing for polls to show, as they now do, that Obama beats Hillary among African-Americans by better than 4-to-1 and Hillary carries whites by almost 2-to-1.

But most people don't read the fine print on the polls. But if blacks deliver South Carolina to Obama, everybody will know that they are bloc-voting. That will trigger a massive white backlash against Obama and will drive white voters to Hillary Clinton.

Obama has done everything he possibly could to keep race out of this election. And the Clintons attracted national scorn when they tried to bring it back in by attempting to minimize the role Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement. But here they have a way of appearing to seek the black vote, losing it, and getting their white backlash, all without any fingerprints showing. The more President Clinton begs black voters to back his wife, and the more they spurn her, the more the election becomes about race -- and Obama ultimately loses.

The rest is here.. http://thehill.com/dick-morris/how-clinton-will-win-the-nomination-by-losing-s.c.-2008-01-23.html