thought processes...Beam the guy who writesDeathwatch may well need CPR before this is all over...

They keep saying well, Obama won 'white states' like Nevada and Iowa...but that was BEFORE Obama lost that edge as the big Messiah of change and hope.

And he has never regained that edge since the Wright Debacle.

The only thing that really matters in politics is what is happening here and NOW...how can the media not see that things have changed for Barack Obama?

Nixon won by a landslide in 1972. But, after Watergate he couldn't have gotten away with a parking ticket.

Things change.

The media needs to wake up.

Things change when there are those who are not afraid of your unethical, fraught with deceipt, Clinton machine.

Campaign fraud case.
Why is no one considering that the Clintons will not stop this until they get a guarantee from Senator (President) Obama that he will give them a pardon. This case can not start until she quits the campaign. They are going to prison for this fraud. This time they screwed someone who is not afraid of them and has just as much power and influence as they do. And the proof will not go away with a fatal accident or suicide.

"The only thing that really matters in politics is what is happening here and NOW...how can the media not see that things have changed for Barack Obama?"

Actually, what's happening here and now doesn't matter either. What matters is what will happen in November.

We have already seen that Obama is consistently able, through the application of truckloads of cash but especially through vigorous campaigning in person, to bring up his poll numbers over time. Clinton had a 20-point lead in Pennsylvania which he cut down to less than 10 by the time the election came around. And that was AFTER Reverend Wright. Once the primary is over, he will have until November to work on swing states.

Will that be enough to beat McCain? Don't yet know, but I give Obama better odds than I'd give Clinton. He's been a smart campaigner and a fast learner. Clinton floundered for much too long. Iowa should have been a wake-up call, and Super Tuesday should have been a friggin' fire bell, yet she let Obama walk away with huge wins all through February and wrap up the nomination. She never really had a shot after that.

One thing I've noticed about both Obama and Howard Dean is that they're quite willing to open up new fronts against their electoral foes. The Clintons and their advisors seem to be locked into very traditional thinking; the same states, the same strategies that Democrats have been using, and losing, for years. Dean opened up his "50-state strategy" in '06 and took a lot of flack for it from the old guard, yet it paid off big dividends--sooner than even he expected. Obama beat Clinton by targeting the small states and caucuses that her people wrote off as too small to matter. He and his staff are bringing a fresh perspective to national politics. I think that will count for a lot more than people realize.