Christina Bellantoni writes in this today’s Washington Times that the Clinton campaign has sent out an early salvo proving that Tom Dasche’s intelligence was indeed correct — they are going “nuclear” and will no longer accept the DNC delegate math. Since the start of the primary process it has been an ironclad assumption that 2,024 delegate votes are needed to win the nomination. Now, the Clintons have put the DNC and the media on notice: Continue reading →

Mike Barnicle delivered the best line of the day on MSNBC’s Morning Joe earlier today. In addition to his diss of the newly re-engineered “Blue-Collar Heroine,” Barnicle went on to flatly say that “Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.” His acceptance of the cold, hard realities of the delegate math is not something one hears often in the Land of Cable Television News, where anchors and pundits prefer to favor the underdog of the moment in the hopes of keeping their network’s ratings high as we rush headlong towards the first Democratic Convention since 1968 to be a “real” convention, with smoke-filled backrooms, reporters making history, and even blood in the streets. All of it in high-definition living room screens across the republic, from sea to shining sea, live in primetime!