• On Tuesday night, Barack Obama will be in Iowa, a state he hopes to turn from red to blue. His message: this is the general election. He might not "declare victory" as such, but he will secure the pledged delegate majority (whether or not Michigan and Florida are counted). I suspect he will at least present himself as the "presumptive presumptive nominee" and given the widespread acceptance that he is already the de facto nominee, the May 20 victory storyline may no longer be as urgent.
• Clinton says she leads the popular vote, which is wrong, but it was in response to a voter's question, so I wouldn't read too much into it.
• The Las Vegas Gleaner continues its humiliation of my governor (Pervus A. McSkanktard, aka Jim Gibbons) and the idiots who support him.
• What went wrong with Hillary's campaign, in their own words.
• An unfair shot at Ron Paul -- I am not a Paultard, but the reason he opposed the Burma resolution is the same reason he opposes all resolutions condemning foreign governments. He believes in non-internvention, unless the U.S. itself is threatened.
• Embittered Republicans desperately clinging to a failed political strategy. (And part 2.)
• Embittered Bush desperately clinging to John McCain.
• Jonathan Chait catches McCain inventing words from Obama. (Reminds me of Gore and the Internet.)

Stuff I did blog, but you might have missed:

• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror, and John McCain takes Osama bin Laden's word for it.
• John McCain's 2013 gambit raises a new question: if elected, will he run for a second term?
• Buchanan's paranoid racial fears are wrong: exit polls show Obama's race was not a net positive in the primaries.

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