Barack Obama and Claire McCaskill in Cape Girardeau, MO earlier today

Leaving aside the spin, the most important thing that happened tonight with respect to the mechanics of the Democratic nomination process is that Barack Obama picked up another 9 (+/- 1) delegates.

As you can see from the countdown numbers in the sidebar, after projecting out the remaining contests and the 49 uncommitted and unselected add-on delegates, Barack Obama needs just 14 more delegates to hit the 2,025 number by the time the last add-on delegate is selected in the middle of June.

He'll hit 2,025 before then, but as you can see from these numbers, Obama is in a race against the finish line. There's just no chance that Hillary Clinton will get 93% of the available delegates.