Hillary Hangs On

Once again Hillary named a primary that she had to win and won it. Current counts with nearly all the precincts counted has her up by 10 points over Obama. That's important. There was a lot of talk the last few weeks that she should pull out if it was close. It also proves that money is not the deciding factor. As in Ohio, Obama out-spent Hillary by a wide margin and still lost.

Of course, the real winner was McCain. Hillary and Obama keep sniping at each other instead of him. Obama is losing his biggest attractions - his freshness and his elevated campaign. By the time the nomination is sewn up voters are going to be sick of him. His promise to run a positive campaign was broken some time ago. Without the novelty and high ideals, he is an inexperienced far-left liberal running against a center-right moderate.

McCain gets to travel around the country and look presidential. Obama is too busy fighting Hillary to go after McCain allowing McCain to take the moral high ground away from Obama.

I've pointed out before that despite conventional wisdom that says that a pro-war Republican cannot win against a generic Democrat, McCain does a lot better against this pair of Democrats. If Obama can't gain a clear victory over Hillary then he is a lot weaker than the pundits give him credit for.