Winter's Picks
Republican John McCain is set to give a "past-tense" speech today on what all he hopes to have accomplished in his first term if elected president.
We'll update later in the day on the speech, but for now, here's the TV ad that goes with it.
If Hillary Clinton loses her party's nomination, she should run as an independent, according to about 29 percent of polled Democratic voters nationwide. Clinton supporters who were polled were evenly split on the proposal.
Also of note is that about 38 percent of Dems want her to drop out of the race, according to Rasumssen Reports.
The big news today is the "what now" after John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama.
Edwards, a former presidential candidate, made the announcement last night during a rally in Michigan with Obama. His endorsement was heavily courted by both Obama and chief rival, Hillary Clinton.
Edwards brings a lot of support from white, Southern lower-income voters, the very people Obama has had the hardest time winning over. And it is those very voters that favor Clinton.
The Associated Press looks at exit polls from the West Virginia primary.
To be blunt, she won in one of the whitest and least educated states in the country.
Quote from AP analysis: Just 45 percent of whites without college degrees in the Democratic primary said they would back Obama should he opposed Republican John McCain in the general electoin. Though Obama seems to have a near-insurmountable lead among convention delegates, Clinton has cited his struggles winning over working-class, white voters to argue she would be the stronger candidate.
Despite a trouncing last night in West Virginia, Barack Obama still has a more than 500,000-vote lead in the popular vote.
The only way Hillary Clinton could claim a popular vote victory is if Florida and Michigan were included. If so, that would give Clinton a lead of slightly more than 25,000. However, those two states don't count - at least yet - because they moved their primary up against national party rules.
