She's actually got a real chance despite the delegate count. The media has been strongly chastised for the obvious bias, and her win was in no way expected, given how much more money he had to spend. He was yesterday babyish telling refs that they shouldn't have paid attention to the accusation of 'media bias'. Of course--they had been in his favour, he liked that, and then they were called on it. If he keeps acting like a baby, and his tiresome wife keeps up her usual bullshit, a holding pattern is what she can bank on, although not guaranteed. He already cut down a lot of his 'inspiration', as Seelye put it in her NYTimes Live Blogging, even by the time he was faced with the reality of the Ohio results. No way if she didn't bow out when the Obama people tried to really push at her last week she's going to do it before trying out Pennsylvania. She's on another roll, and the Obama people are not able to be as thrilled as they'd wish. He's a 'wonky lawyer like Hillary', according to Maureen Dowd and others, which means that nobody is going to be half-literate like Bush, but he's more of a permanent campaigner and showboy than he is a born governing type ready to do the unglamorous work of hammering out policy.
She may still not win, but I've lost confidence in him, and if she does not get the nomination, I'll vote for McCain, who is a good man even if I think his policies are often full of shit. His not some little frat boy like Bush, and although I wouldn't vote for him because of his elegant wife, she certainly is a beauty.
Obama could easily become petulant, because he thought everything was in the bag last night. He has no idea what a general election would feel like, according to most. Hillary already knows what that is, and knows what is to be embarrased in front of the entire world; and yet her guts always show up at unpredictable times. I've never been more sold on her than last night. She's just plain gorgeous in that Ohio speech. The woman is fucking brilliant.
Think the talk about appointing her Chief Justice is meaningless and far-fetched, because there are no impending vacancies. Sort of like hoping they'll match up Tom and Nicole in a movie now that they're divorced--unlikely.