Super Tuesday Jr. Cleanup Comments

The Real Clear Politics delegate count has BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama) up on HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton) 1542-1447. There are nine Ohio and 45 Texas delegates not yet determined.

While I don’t think you can overstate how much weaker Obama is today than he was 24 hours ago, Mrs. Clinton still has a very tough climb. Getting her tainted “wins” in Michigan and Florida to count, and getting “already-committed” Obama superdelegates back into her camp, both appear crucial to her winning the nomination. Each has the danger of seriously alienating those who didn’t vote for her.

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From the “Told Ya” Department:

• Last night (11:17 p.m. item at post) I wrote, “Questions for those of you who crossed over from GOPLand to vote for Hillary tonight, and the alleged geniuses who encouraged it: What if Obama is so weakened that he loses big in Pennsylvania, and accepts the idea of becoming her Veep? How will you feel about your contribution to that near-juggernaut scenario?”
• Story this morning: “Clinton Hints At Sharing Ticket With Obama” — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a democratic “dream ticket” with Sen. Barack Obama.

Even if that nightmare doesn’t come to pass, I question GOP crossovers who today are happy that the Dem fight will drag on until probably mid-May. That’s 75 more days where Clinton v. Obama will use up the available oxygen and keep John McCain’s name out of the public eye. If it’s “John who?” by Memorial Day, whose fault will that be?

Radio talkers and others who advocated and carried out the “Save Hillary” strategy yesterday may have a lot to answer for in eight months.

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I know there’s more bad blood between these two than the Hatfields and McCoys, but Jean Schmidt had no business calling Tom Brinkman a “fringe candidate” — and it’s a big tactical mistake.

Fringe, schminge, Jean. He got almost 40% of the vote. These are 28,000 people whose votes you will need in November.

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How sweet it is — Runner-up John “Check ‘n GONE” Rabenold spent about $230,000 in his attempt to buy the OH-35 State Rep race. That’s about $37 for each of the 6,196 votes he received. I wouldn’t be surprised if winner Ron Maag spent less than $3.70 for each of his 6,727 votes.

I give this result a 5-Snoopy rating (graphic blatantly stolen from Weapons of Mass Discussion — of course, originally from the late Charles Schulz):

Well, at least Rabenold can take comfort in the fact that his loss isn’t as embarrassing as Pat DeWine’s $183 per vote debacle in 2005’s OH-02 Special GOP primary. DeWine spent $1 million and got 5,467 votes, finishing a distant fourth in a field of 11.