Is it really "no end in sight" for the Democratic primaries after last night's festivities? I'm not so sure. I think we may have crossed the line between "scrappy" and "delusional" sometime in the early morning hours, and people are waking up to that realization.
Yes it is over. The Clinton campaign found the people -- and bottom up campaigning too late I think. There is no math now. No case to win
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Former 2004 Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, Tweeting at about 7:40 a.m.
Let people who want to believe its not over, believe its not over. Its does not matter
--Trippi again, Tweeting at 8:26 a.m.
He's right, you know. Now we've just got to talk this up so that it enters the national consciousness strongly enough so that we bring this thing to closure. It's over. Pass it on.
UPDATE: Oh, and here's The Blogfather, who has really discovered his voice as a political journalist and analyst this year, chiming in with a Tweet at about roughly the same time as Trippi's.
The fact that HRC cancelled her media appearances this morning is a very good sign that she's going to get behind Obama now.
--Tech pioneer Dave Winer.
Let's talk this up. Get it out there. It's time.
UPDATE: I like the way Seth Godin put it this morning:
There isn't media bias in favor of Hillary ... Nor is there media bias in favor of floods. There's media bias in favor of drama.
Most of us are inclined to believe that government officials, doctors and the media are making an effort to tell us the truth. Actually, just like all marketers, they tell us a story.
Mainstream media coverage has tended to promote the sense that this is a dramatic, ongoing, close race -- a narrative that gives Clinton's continued candidacy legitimacy and makes us customers for their advertisers.
It's our job as citizens to cut through that narrative, and -- when necessary -- insert our own, corrective narrative, into the national discourse.
UPDATE 9:48 a.m.: HRC has added an event today, but let's not read too much into that yet. It says the internal discussions are ongoing -- no decision yet. If she didn't add an event this morning she'd create a vacuum and the MSM would fill that with speculation that she's out... effectively making the decision for her. Keep talking, keep Twittering...
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