One thing I'll miss about Sen. Clinton dropping out of the race is the source of comedy provided by some of her supporters at MyDD.  I've highlighted some excerpts after the fold--as Triumph would add--for me to poop on.

Reported on the Hill:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) most prominent Senate supporters, said Wednesday that she will ask the former first lady to detail her plans for the rest of the Democratic primary.

"I, as you know, have great fondness and great respect for Sen. Clinton and I’m very loyal to her," Feinstein said. "Having said that, I’d like to talk with her and [get] her view on the rest of the race and what the strategy is."

Apparently there's very little news going on in American politics today, so the Drudge Report ran a banner headline about strange "lights" over Arizona and Florida.  Have a look:

What could these be?  Startling additional photos after the jump.

Lets reflect on comments by Bill Clinton today:

Pennsylvania, if you say yes to Hillary Tuesday, you hide and watch: you're electing the next president.

[Cross-posted at Overbreadth]

FCC commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, arguing in favor of content regulation of the internet, argued the following today:

"Child pornography is a multi-billion dollar segment of our economy,"

As someone who formerly worked in internet credit card processing, I don't buy it.

Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama have both praised Bush's abstinence-based approach to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa because of the success story of Uganda. Watch this economist speak and see if you still believe the traditional wisdom.

The right wants to pretend McCain never said what he said or something. Is it fair game to poke fun at an inane statement about a million years in Iraq? (Hint: yes. The answer is yes. That’s the hint.)

This morning I awoke to several emails to the effect of:

Hey, you seem to be on Candid Camera!  Check out the Washington Post!

It seems a certain Peter Funt, host of Candid Camera (after his father, Allen Funt), wrote an op-ed that seems eerily similar to a diary entry that was front-paged here on Daily Kos.  You be the judge.

As reported by CBS.

A senior Clinton spokesman told reporters that Clinton did not mean to imply that she was not referring to what she allegedly said to Richardson about Obama.

Read the full story on how the Clinton campaign explains her non-statement with regard to whether she never didn't say that Obama couldn't win.  Or experience the Cookie monster version after the jump.

This post is about a pet peeve:  the Clinton campaign’s love affair with the phrase “raises serious questions.”

Need examples?  According to Clinton or her surrogates, the following raise serious questions about Obama:  Austan Goolsbee, General McPeak, references to Geraldine Ferraro, a 1996 voter questionnaire, even Pennsylvania polls.

Just once, I’d like a reporter to respond:

You’ve told us such and such raises serious questions.  What questions?  How are they serious?  And why all the serious questions from the ’solutions’ candidate?

According to the Reporter:

Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien disbanded his public integrity unit last Monday. Those 17 attorneys will be redistributed among the major fraud and organized crime sections.

Don't be nervous though.  This is good news for those who want to see public corruption prosecuted diligently.

"Our view is that it’s a significant enhancement of the public corruption unit," he said.

I understand where he's coming from.  I once watched a large press flatten my car, converting it from a destroyed automobile to a giant brick of steel, which was much more suitable for stacking and selling for scrap metal--a "significant enhancement" you might say.

[from the diaries - BarbinMD]

Over the weekend, Senator Evan Bayh suggested we measure the success of the candidates not by delegates earned, but by the electoral votes of the states they’ve won.  In the spirit of Senator Bayh, I present you with five additional metrics that I pulled out of my ass.  As you’ll see, Hillary Clinton is either winning or tied with Obama in every case.

I should say at the outset that this study is highly scientific and my methods are rigorous.  Except where otherwise noted, the data for this study is available here.  I have excluded American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Democrats voting abroad, because their inclusion would be un-American.  Similarly, I have excluded  the District of Columbia, which isn’t even a state.

Total number of "yellow" states on Wikipedia’s map of the United States

CLINTON:   5

OBAMA:  4

By Barack Obama’s own admission, at the conclusion of his Iowa address, he noted, "we are not a collection of red states and blue states."  He failed, however, to specifically identify the colors that should be assigned to the states.  If anyone is to resolve this question, it is Wikipedia, the repository of all human knowledge, which makes clear that we are a nation of green, yellow, red, and pink states.  It’s important of course that this study be conducted in a fair and nonarbitrary fashion, so I determined the color metric (yellow) by eliminating the states least frequently associated with submarines in Beatles songs.  This yields a slight advantage to Hillary Clinton, 5 to 4.

Total number of Commonwealths

CLINTON: 1 (Massachusetts)

OBAMA: 1 (Virginia)

Here the race is neck and neck, but Clinton is expected to take Pennsylvania.  As there are only four commonwealths total, it is virtually impossible for Obama to beat Clinton on the Commonwealth count.  If Clinton beats Obama in Kentucky, his claim that he has won more states will be canceled out by her claim that she has won more Commonwealths.

Total number of "New" States

CLINTON: 4

OBAMA:0

Hilllary Clinton has won New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York.  By contrast, Obama has failed to win a single state with the word "New" in its name.  Obama’s failure among self-proclaimed new states, raises serious questions about his supposed strength among young voters (new people) and his supposed message of change (new policies).

Average Highest Elevation

CLINTON: 6135 Feet

OBAMA:  6097 Feet

Frankly, I’m surprised that more attention hasn’t been drawn to this.  Obama claims to want to elevate the level of discourse, but he has failed in states with the highest elevations.  Clinton has won on Mount Whitney (California), Humphreys Peak (Arizona), Boundary Peak (Nevada), and Wheeler Peak (New Mexico). Perhaps more significantly, there are so few peaks left that despite the close margins, Obama has no hope of regaining the altitude vote.  Clinton also leads among states with the highest average mean elevation: (Clinton:  1908.8 feet    Obama:  1457.7 feet).

Average Official State Mixed Drink

CLINTON:  Wine, Milk, Coffee, Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice, Tomato Juice

OBAMA:  Kool-Aid, Beer, Conecuh Ridge Whiskey, Milk, Moxie, South Carolina Grown Tea

It’s a close call, but on balance, Clinton has the better tasting official state mixed drink.  Here’s how this is tabulated:  Most states have an official state beverage (Wikipedia State Beverage List).  Using equal parts of each state beverage from each state that each candidate won, I was able to produce two mixed drinks.  I don’t want to go into the judging details except to say that Obama’s combination of Whiskey and Kool-Aid left me questioning whether his coalition of voters can hold together beyond the late night taco bell run.

Conclusion

It’s clear that the time has come for Obama to drop out of the race.  By almost any measure imaginable (excluding delegates, popular vote, primaries, or caucuses), Clinton is leading.

(Cross posted from overbreadth.com.)

Obama strategist David Plouffe dares to suggest that all states matter--to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, an offense worthy of termination.

The evidence suggests Limbaugh's call to his supporters to hold their nose and vote Hillary is working.  Exit polls in Mississippi suggested a much higher proportion of strategic (deceitful) votes.  [Crossposted from Cameron's Blog]

5:07 PM (PST): Barack Obama wins the Mississippi Democratic primary, CNN projects.

5:18 PM (PST): Correction: Exit polls show Obama leading Clinton in Mississippi.  CNN has not projected this race.

5:42 PM (PST): CNN projects that Sen. Barack Obama will win the Mississippi Democratic Primary.