Philly Inquirer:  Lost in the excitement of Barack Obama’s coronation this week was an inconvenient fact of Tuesday’s results: Hillary Clinton netted approximately 150,000 votes and is now poised to finish the primary season as the popular-vote leader. In some quaint circles, presumably, these things still matter. Real Clear Politics keeps track of six versions of the popular-vote total. They are, in ascending order of inclusivity: (1) the popular vote

As Race Wanes, Talk of Clinton as No. 2 Grows Unflushable.

From Gawker:  Times editors are apparently tired of people saying mean things about Emily Gould and about their own decision to publish her meditation on blogging, because they’ve shut down the comments section attached to Gould’s magazine piece. Some 727 responses flooded in before the shutdown, even though the article won’t be physically published until the Sunday issue. Many called the former Gawker editor narcissistic, self indulgent and a bad

So writes Obama backer Chris Bowers at Open Left, but I am not entirely convinced. Bowers notes that McCain and the RNC have more money on hand, and are raising money at a faster rate, than Obama and the DNC.  Ed Morrissey noticed this also.  But I wonder whether that reflects the fact that McCain has been able to move into a general election posture ahead of Obama. Bowers notes

Best Week Ever has the video.  It sure sounds like flatulence, but given how much MSNBC normally sounds like flatulence, it is hard to be sure.  Oliver Stone may need to go Zapruder on the clip before we get to the bottom of it, so to speak.

McGehee on McCain: Senile like a . . . whatever is best known for its . . . unsenility. Fausta has a great interview regarding the Karsenty Affair. ;aLady Bracknell. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. If Burge and Goldstein aren’t

Feeling old, Bunky? I blame Jeff. Protein Wisdom challenged by Breitbart.TV (about 70 min. in) Blogger writes really long article for NYT Magazine. If you have the ambition, please read it and tell me if there’s anything good in it. I read 2 1/2 pages and still didn’t give a shit. UPDATE: Jiminkc says: “Attention whore comes to loathe the attention, whines about it a lot.” I’m kinda shooting from

Though I have often looked at the white male swing vote here at pw, Gallup notes that the current head-to-head match-up has Barack Obama losing white women to John McCain by 9 points.  It is possible that this reflects some latent disgruntlement among some women over the technically ongoing contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton. But it is also more consistent with a broader trend.  Ruy Teixeira, co-author of The Emerging

From a comment at Willamette Week, in response to their editorial endorsing O! : I attended Sunday’s big Obama-rama in Waterfront Park. Had a fine time. However – I was competely offended when I saw several different men in line wearing t-shirts that said “Bros before Hoes” with photos of B & H. Dude – way to lose my vote ! protein wisdom offers an unsolicited response: “Dude. Pick a

Laugh n Pass! Emma, aged 42, has a birth certificate and a “gender recognition certificate” to prove her legal status as a woman although she is still waiting for final surgery to make her transition from male to female physically complete. She says she has never had a problem with any of her other pupils and says the complaints made by the man from the Meadowhall area of Sheffield, were: