According to CNN right now, it's NOT OVER and Hillary has changed her schedule to campaign in West Virginia today.

Candy Crowley is definitely being an apologist for her, giving all sorts of justifications for continuing, that she's gotten all sorts of new small donations since Pennsylvania and can go back to those donors. Both of them are saying that the campaign is still very close when in fact is is nothing of the sort.....

John King is going through the math and describing how the math just doesn't add up

Now, Mark Halperin says she's meeting with Superdelegates today as well, so we'll see how THAT goes.... All eyes on those Supers today...

As a reminder to people, the Oregon Primary is NOT really May 20th, it's actually happening RIGHT NOW because it is a vote by mail state. I have my ballot right here next to me on the couch. People are VOTING NOW.  Unfortunately we won't be getting results until the 20th....

So if you're volunteering and phone banking, I'm guessing tomorrow and the next several days before West Virginia will be an EXCELLENT time, given tonight's momentum, to get on the phone with Oregoners to get them to send in their ballots marked for OBAMA.

Just sayin'.

Sign up here to phone bank from home to Oregon!

The Hillary-endorsing New York Times Editorial Page has had enough and tells her to STFU.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

The article falls short of calling on her to drop out, but it calls on the Superdelegates to end the race.... It also acknowledges that Obama is starting to get worn down by this and is starting to take the bait a bit. I agree with this. I think he needs to hope it up some more somehow...

Please.

Come on, please?

Oh, PulEEZE....

PLEEEEEEEZZ, PLEEEEEZZZZZZ, PLEEEEEEEEZ.
PLEEEEEEEZZ, PLEEEEEZZZZZZ, PLEEEEEEEEZ.
PLEEEEEEEZZ, PLEEEEEZZZZZZ, PLEEEEEEEEZ.
PLEEEEEEEZZ, PLEEEEEZZZZZZ, PLEEEEEEEEZ.

pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.

Pritty please??

Team Clinton is planning on attempting to win this election via Superdelegates, and her team is upset at and turning up the heat on Howard Dean to seat the delegates for Michigan and Florida, according to a fundraiser who attended a pow-wow with Clinton and her campaign management team yesterday, as reported by TPM.

The fundraisers...persistently questioned Hillary advisers about what could be done about Florida and Michigan. There was a pronounced sense at the meetings that Howard Dean needs to do more to resolve the situations in those states. "There was very much a sense that people want Dean to do more," the fundraiser says.

Good news from California. All the Decline to State votes shall be counted, and the double-bubble ballots are to be abolished!

Just got this email from Rick Jacobs from the Courage Campaign:

Dear Buffalo Girl,

We won!

After weeks of bad news, here's the good news: Tens of thousands of "Decline-to-State" (DTS) voters -- who intended to cast a ballot for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday -- will now have their "double bubble" votes counted by the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters.

And it's because of you.

Hey, enough about Obama and Clinton for this evening. Let's talk OSCARS!

Been watching the red carpet and people are starting to show up. It's raining in LA but they've got it handled with a canopy that still allows a lot of light in.

Fave so far is Ann Hathaway with a GORGEOUS red gown. She looks stunning.

George Clooney has gone in already, and he looked great as usual, as did his girlfriend.

Nominations here

For all your unsubstantiated rumors, hopes, speculation, desires, fantasies.....and facts....

It turns out it doesn't look like Richardson will endorse anybody today,as he's in DC.

From NBC's Andrea Mitchell and Lauren Appelbaum
With Obama in New Mexico today, there's been speculation that Richardson might endorse Obama. Yet as it turns out, Richardson happnes to be in DC today doing state business, lobbying for an Air Force cyberspace command contract at the Pentagon.

A recent study released today from Hervard University has uncovered some remarkable scientific phenomena that may be the deciding factor in who gets elected the next President of the United States, and may in fact also effect elections for years to come. Below is an incomplete sampling of those rules and phenomena, based primarily on millions of interviews and blogposts over the last 8 years.  

In                              Out
Democrats                   Republicans
i can has blog, mom     X my F**ing Y, Kos
smintheus                  Kagro X
Sibel Edmonds             Cindy Sheehan
John Edwards              Al Gore
puppies                     pooties
pooties                     puppies
Kristol                      Brooks
California                  Florida
Brokaw                     Williams
Olberman                  Matthews
recession                  jobs
Politico                     Drudge

CAMPAIGN BREAK!

So the Academy Awards nominations will be out in about 10 days, and nomination polls are closing today.

What do you think will get nominated? What's the best of the year? What's overrated?

I've seen a lot of the Oscar bait movies this year and some I've liked and some I haven't.... My faves are Charlie Wilson's War, Eastern Promises, Michael Clayton and The Kite Runner. I'm going to see Juno today.

I thought Daniel Day Lewis was GREAT in There Will Be Blood, but otherwise the film was overrated and slow. It never built the way I thought it would.

...the shredders overheated.

...the stairway to Hell was left open.

....a spark from his robotics caught fire.

....someone's head exploded after a briefing on Cheney's justification for going to war with Iran.

....the smoldering ashes of the Constitution caught the curtains on fire.

I'm sorry, ya just do. How can you not love a Democrat who sends out an email saying "I will eat Rudy Giuliani alive at a debate."

Folks, we've seen how dangerous it is to elect a president who doesn't understand how the world works. The last thing we need in the White House is four years of George W. Giuliani, or George W. Romney. Notice we haven't heard a word about their plans to reach a political solution in Iraq.

I promise you, when I am the Democratic nominee next year, I will eat them alive at the debates

If yes, then get on the phone. It ain't over yet, and there may be some room for pressure to still make a difference.

From Josh Marshall:

This article at CQpolitics notes the possibility of a Dem-filibuster of Mukasey's nomination. And a few random unnamed birds chirping up on Capitol Hill suggest that more pressure might prevent Mukasey's nomination from getting over the 60 vote hurdle.

To me this reads that Josh has some staffer sources from Capitol Hill who believe that if enough people call, it could have an impact. We cannot miss this opportunity to be that pressure....

...with the Dems on the Judiciary Committee on the Mukasey nomination: Feinstein, Kohl, Feingold and Schumer. Phone calls right now can really make an impact, especially if people are right on the fence as Feingold is...

There's a small chapter in Tim Flannery's The Weathermakers called The Last Act of God?  that sent chills down my spine at the end of a very spine-chilling book... It starts with this:

Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors. Then, the insurance industry and the courts will no longer be able to talk of acts of God, because even the most unreasonable of us could have foreseen the consequences. Instead, the judiciary will be faced with apportioning guilt and responsibility for human actions resulting from the new climate. And that, I think, will change everything.

No sh*t...... I think we're beginning to see a bit how that could possibly look....  

This is for all those Kossacks in the danger zone to check in, let us know you're ok.  If there's someone you're worried about, ask here and people will say if they know.

This is NOT to be used to chase down people who we may be worried about. They may be fine and/or have better things to do than blog. Please be respectful of people's privacy.

If you're looking for information about evacuations, etc, check the latest liveblog thread for news:

Wildfires Liveblog Mothership here

Latest Liveblog threads:

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# 4 here

# 5 here

Then recommend THIS diary from Edgery and make some dang calls. NOT MY DIARY, EDGERY'S. I will delete this if Edgery's makes the recommended list.

Edgery has done a lot of hard work putting together the information about the vote, the numbers to call, the specific targets and so on.

It doesn't take long, you can make the calls very quick and then get back to reading about Randi Rhodes or arguing about the use of the word fascism....

And don't give me that crap that it doesn't help, because as Edgery described in his diary, IT DOES: