Presidential Race: Odds and Ends

Because everyone is still obsessing over the fallout from Tuesday, here's the latest news...

One look at the delegate count from Tuesday shows Sen. Clinton with a net gain of only 4 additional delegates. Sen. Obama still has a lead on her of around 100 delegates. Like it or not, it appears, though, that the superdelegates will be needed to put one of them over the top, though it's how they make that decision that's the question.

If electability is a factor in these decisions, a new poll shows both candidates beating Sen. McCain in November, and concludes "Obama's advantage over McCain is the bigger one in this ABC News/Washington Post poll, a 12-point lead compared to Clinton's 6-point edge. McCain's endorsement by George W. Bush may not help: The president's back at his career low approval rating, matching Harry Truman in long-term unpopularity."

And what of Florida and Michigan? The possibility of do-over primaries is being suggested.

And some are saying that playing rough payed off for Clinton on Tuesday, but what was it? If it was the NAFTA issue, some new revelations throw that story for a loop, while the CBC has a good report. And Glenn Greenwald has an excellent debunking on the Whitewater-esque Rezko 'scandal'. And did the Clinton campaign make Obama look 'blacker' in some of their ads? Either way, they seem to be lying about it.

Still, some Obama folks seem to be saying he'll be campaigning a bit tougher from now on.

Meanwhile, Clinton continues to seemingly endorse McCain over Obama by playing the 'experience' card so heavily. How she thinks that won't backfire is beyond me.

Finally, Josh Marshall wants to know why the press is ignoring the McCain/Hagee story.