I've been trying to post a cogent diary about how this primary is really over because Hillary is really out of money and can't raise it fast enough from a deep enough group of small dollar supporters to last all the way through the rest of the primary's, but, my fellow Kossacks keep beating me to the meat of my arguments.
So, although it's borderline as to diary regs, I thought I'd post one obsevation that I haven't seen here, and one personal observation that probably can't be duplicated.
More below
The first observation is about the two different campaigns, and how the metric about how their campaigns are run should be a window to how they'd govern.
We've all seen the multiple stories about how Hillary supporters who gave her their credit card #s have had huge amounts overcharged on those cards (perhaps giving her illegal loans to solve a cash crunch), and when the former Hillary supporters tried to get help in getting those overcharges reversed, couldn't find anybody to help, and/or got the runaround until they threatened to go to the press.
Here's an earlier diary on this topic
Then I saw a news story about what happened when the Obama had a much more (IMHO) innocent credit card problem.
Here
Classy vs. not, IMO.
And the second observation is one from personal experience. I was very involved in the Paul Tsongas campaign in '92. Paul, for those of you who don't or were too young to remember, ran a great campaign for President, but came in second to Bill Clinton in delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1992. He, therefore, ipso facto, was not the nominee.
Paul's campaign ended early, when his best friend (who was his campaign treasurer) stole money from the campaign, and the campaign was put on hold because Paul thought it was wrong for the campaign to go in to debt. But despite the fact that the campaign had already stopped competing, it came in a strong second in the New York primary, beating several other active candidates.
The thing I took away from that is that a campaign can already "be dead" and still seem to be "doing well". But if you don't have the delegates when you're done, the other guy's going to be the nominee.