BTD you called this early on.  

But would women accept this? Would Obama accept this?

As for her attacking Obama, I think she will do what she has been doing - talk about the issues and highlight their differences. She gives him a few gentle slaps, but has never really attacked him the way McCain and the Republican 527's will.

I think she's got class and is a good Democrat and will do her best to unify the party. And should Obama lose (which I just don't think is going to happen given the current economic and political climate), she will be almost guaranteed the nomination in 2012.

I really hope that tomorrow is just a day of regrouping and recuperating, and not a day to drop out. Marc Ambinder has her basic schedule for tomorrow, and in his reporting of it, he doesn't seem to take it as a sign that she's bowing out.

Send her money now if you want her to keep going.

He'll decline but it'll be good for a half a news cycle at least.  Or he'll accept and Obama's campaign will panic and say something stupid like they don't need working-class whites.

But of course the party that gave us our previous looser pres. nominees will likely do it again. So I'm bracing myself.

I feel my depression tonight stemmed from how much this reminded me of 2000 with press manipulating stories and calls. BTD, with all due respect I don't want these folks picking our presidents. It's too high a price to pay so I don't see it as a benefit to tout its advantage.<<

CONGRATULATIONS Hillary! YOU WON TONIGHT!

This is why the Democrats lose Presidential elections.

I've just donated $20.44 to HDRC and hope many others will also. It's an uphill battle, but I'm a Scorpio, a veteran of the Clinton years, and I never say die.

Thanks also to all the "regulars" whose eloquent and thoughtful posts made this board by far the best place to be on this election night -- I was literally reading from this board verbatim to my best friend who was temporarily without internet access. She appreciated the comments as well, BTW :)

Winning NC does not make me like him more nor do I have an elevated desire to vote for him. Let me dispel the notion that he and his supporters have about me voting for him in the fall: unless Florida and Michigan are seated and have an impact on the nomination, I will not consider the nomination legitimate. That doesn't mean I'll vote for John McCain. It just means that I don't know what I'll do when I stand in front of that button. And don't hang this on Hillary. If it comes to that, I'm sure she would do her best to GOTV. It has nothing to do with her. It has to do with how deeply offended I am by how Obama has split my party on racial lines and pitted race against their regular party members, as if there was a real split there to begin with. As if I were the enemy. He has pitted Dem against Dem. I am insulted that Howard Dean and Donna Brazile have put their thumbs on the scales for Obama instead of encouraging him to agree to revotes in FL and MI. The thought of voting for him under these circumstances fills me with revulsion. And there's no amount of cheerleading that Hillary can do to make me change my mind. It's not her. It's him.
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But my bigger concern is for November: I don't know how we put the humpty dumpty that is the Democratic Party back together again.

The unity thing is gonna take some work, but hopefully in the end punishing Obama is not worth having four more years of Bush policies.

In short, get over yourselves.  Hillary was not entitled to this nomination, she had to earn it.  And she didn't.  The fact that people on sites like this (i.e., supposedly left wing) are using Republican talking points about Obama explains why we lose all the time.

I heard some shots at Hillary in Obama's speech tonight but I also heard some pointed attacks on McCain.  A sustained period of both candidates double-teaming McCain could be very helpful.  Despite all the hate, Hillary Clinton is a good Democrat and she will do what is right for the Democratic Party.

A McGovernish-Mondale lopsided beatdown of epic proportions.  Man are we going to get our clock cleaned.  He'll lose Whites, Hispanics, some of the Women (funny on how they're never considered, eh?  The gender gap is as important as the AA vote), maybe even Jewish Americans.  Begala nailed it, "Eggheads and AA's is not a winning coalition, at least IMHO.

Time to drop out now.  There's not much she can do now.

I don't see how she wins OR with the media narrative continuing and her likely having no $$.

Ed Rendell for VP

Finally, I don't relish being in the same party as many in the left blogosphere.  Thanks to BTD and Jeralyn for offering this island of probity.  I am donating to you, and to Hillary (again).  

I'd love to see General Zinni, but that too is probably impossible.

This went almost as I expected.

Doesn't sound like she's planning on quitting, since she had to know at that time if she won ir would be by a small margin.  You don't usually plan on campaigning two day after and pleading for funds if you are planning to quit.  In fact I think she went out of her way to do this to make sure of an infusion of cash like after Pa.  She may feel different in the morning but it seems like a signal to supporters that she is going ahead.

I'm headed to give Clinton a hundred bucks.  Hope others follow suit in donating.