Here's a little fact to celebrate Obama's speech and the fading of the Wright affair (at least in terms of non-stop coverage).
Obama has been ahead for a while in most any measure you can use... pledged delegate count, pledged delegate count including MI&FL, popular vote, state wins, primary wins, caucus wins, etc. One lead that she hadn't lost yet has been the total delegate count including supers as well as MI&FL in full (the count with Obama gaining essentially zero delegates in MI).
That lead is finally gone.
On DemConWatch, Obama is now exactly tied with Clinton at 1688-1688. He actually took the lead by 1 on Monday, and she took it back by 1 yesterday, but DemConWatch added a superdelegate today that they decided had endorsed Obama a while back. It's a tie for the moment. Hopefully supers can keep trickling in and he can take the lead for good, or at least enough to get it back with NC and IN after her likely win in PA.
I know that most people here would argue that this measure is not valid and will never count, but Clinton is definitely planning on using this measure in her arguments to the undecided supers and public. Her supporters are using it. MyDD has had the counter up forever showing Clinton with the lead according to the total delegates including FL&MI in full.
We might as well pay attention to it, and winning it will be a good rebuttal to her argument. I'm not saying it's required, just that it would be very helpful to make the win go smoother in the public eye. The only thing that might make this number completely irrelevant is for the candidates to agree on some kind of revote, half-vote, or 50/50 split-vote compromise. It seems to me like only the half-vote compromise is still a reasonably likely scenario, and it's still a long shot for that. Most likely, the status quo will remain where Obama claims the rules should stay as is and Clinton argues that FL&MI should count, leaving the total count including FL&MI a "shadow" number for her to use.
MI&FL revotes are not likely to happen. If things stay as is, Obama likely reaches the 2025 number to declare victory to the media in May or June. Clinton's likely to cry foul and point to the combined MI&FL number (and possibly the popular vote). If Obama has won that too, then there's one less point for her to make to the supers and media.