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March 4, 2008

Dems 2008: Who dared to question the Obamessiah? [Karl]

By now you may have heard all the buzz about Barack Obama aborting yesterday’s press conference once it became clear that the assembled reporters wanted to ask about the Goolsbee flap and the Rezko trial, instead of hopeyness and changitude.  Or you may have seen the video. Ed Morrissey, among others, noted the contrast with how the legendarily temperamental John McCain handled his press conference about the bogus NYT sex innuendo

Dems 2008: Will Clinton have a “moral claim” to the nomination? [Karl]

At OpenLeft, Chris Bowers again projects delegate counts for the remainder of the Democratic campaign, which has Hillary Clinton behind Barack Obama by roughly 180 delegates (not counting Puerto Rico, which should be a net gain for Clinton, though nowhere near enough). A RCP, Jay Cost outlines how Clinton could stake a “moral claim” to the nomination outside the delegate count: The most persuasive method is to count the votes. This is why