Thus making further fighting - but not campaigining - a proposition of dubious efficacy.  They should be devoting a lot of attention not only to wooing superdelegates, but also to building the ground game.  First priority among the ground game issues should be voter registration and anti-voter caging work - to defeat things like the Indiana drivers' license checkups which are at the heart of Repug voter suppression efforts.  There's time now to defeat the Repug voter suppression efforts to come, but it has to be done now.

And, how many delegates did Edwards have when he suspended his campaign?

And, when will all the Dems realize its likely a good idea to be be spending time and money on commercials reminding people that:

• Rethug regular Pat Buchanan says "McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi"

• McCain is so old, he makes Reagan look young.

• McCain is so old, he had to take out life insurance to get a loan for his campaign.

• McCain, the reformer of Campaign finance, is violating the campaign finance law by taking public and private money.

• If McCain wants to get the Dobson vote (i.e., for Dobson and his ilk to get a revelation and change their pronouncements), he's going to name Huckabee as the VP candidate.  Given his age, that means a torturing, spying-on-you police state with mandatory religiousity imposed by kids weaned on "Left Behind - the video game" the instant McCain gets a little older.  And that distinguishes us from Iran and the Taliban how, exactly?

For Establishment Media, just look at whether or not the establishment media is putting out good/bad stories about Clinton/Obama.  From what I remember a study was done (reported by Media Matters), and it turned out the Establishment Media was much more pro-Obama.

Now, that doesn't mean that the Clintons didn't build a network of support within the party over the years. Of course they did. But what people don't understand is that there is a whole different 'establishment' out there who have never liked them.

I've never forgotten our beloved David Broder, who said, "They came in and trashed the place, and it's not their place."

Elitist much?

To me, the fact that the DC establishment never liked the Clintons is a strong selling point.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Sen. Barack Obama predicted Wednesday that Republicans will have a dump truck full of dirt to unload on Hillary Rodham Clinton if the former first lady wins the Democratic presidential nomination, and said he offers the party its best hope of winning the White House this fall.

At a news conference on the morning after Super Tuesday, Obama offered some pointed advice to members of Congress and other party leaders who will attend the national convention this summer as delegates not chosen in primaries or caucuses.

He said that if he winds up winning more delegates in voting than the former first lady, they "would have to think long and hard about how they approach the nomination when the people they claim to represent have said, 'Obama's our guy,'" he said.

The Illinois senator won primaries and caucuses in 13 states on Tuesday, while Clinton won eight and American Samoa. Obama and Clinton were in a tight race in New Mexico.

Obama said he had won a majority of the 1,681 delegates at stake, although The Associated Press tally showed several hundred yet to be allocated.

Asked about Clinton's recent comment that she would not allow herself to be victimized by the type of Swift Boat-style attacks that were leveled against Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 race, Obama said he had been vetted by his opponent in the nominating campaign.

"I have to just respond by saying that the Clinton research operation is about as good as anybody's out there," he said.

"I assure you that having engaged in a contest against them for the last year that they've pulled out all the stops. And you know I think what is absolutely true is whoever the Democratic nominee is the Republicans will go after them.

"The notion that somehow Senator Clinton is going to be immune from attack or there's not a whole dump truck they can't back up in a match between her and John McCain is just not true."

It wasn't the only point at which he said he would do better against the Republicans in the fall.

"I have no doubt that I can get the people who vote for Senator Clinton. ... It's not clear that Senator Clinton can get all the people I'm getting," he said.

 The dems have the historical moment: they can run a campaign that does more than pay lip service to change. They can break the back of the repub coalition. That isn't beanbag now is it? So while everyone wants their candidate to win and all, as far as I can see, either O or C, who after all is said and done aren't all that far apart on policy, could run campaigns that bring about an generational political realignment in November.