Now instead of Obama having momentum and closing in on Hillary's leads in upcoming contests, the reverse is happening. And just as Obama scored victories by huge margins in Southern states with large AA populations earlier, Hillary is about to rack up some large-margin wins in WV and KY.

It's almost a total reversal: Hillary has momentum and, in at least a couple of states, a large demographic advantage. She may finish with a May that looks a lot like Obama's February. Then what?

If the DNC hands the nomination to Obama on that slight, caucus-driven, delegate-edge when he's shown that he's out-of-steam in April and May, it's going to be a controversial nomination. It would make much more sense to give it to the candidate with the most popular votes, the momentum, and the better performance in head-to-head polls against McCain. If that's not Obama, that will not set any better with Hillary's supporters than Hillary's being the nominee will please Obama's. (But I do trust Hillary to make good on her pledge to do what she can to encourage her supporters to vote for Obama. I'm not so sure I get the same vibe from him. After all, he's assured us that his supporters won't vote for her. Not that he's practicing the old politics of division or anything....)

In the story it says..

It's now or perhaps never, Obama and his wife, Michelle, concluded, because, "We still remember what it's like to be normal," he told a crowd here six days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses

"My wife and I were talking the other day, and she said, 'We're not doing this again,' " Obama said. "Those of you who have met my wife or heard my wife, you know she doesn't mince words. I mean, she's a tough cookie."

Obama said their stance has less to do with the grueling campaign schedule that separates the family for large swaths of time, and more with the couple's belief that eight years from now, they wouldn't be the "same people."