Who Will Win?

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Indiana (68% reporting):

53% Clinton
47% Obama

North Carolina (26% reporting):

38% Clinton
60% Obama

Well, it looks like NC and Indiana are both already decided, with Indiana going for Clinton and NC going for Obama.  The shot clock is running out in the bottom of the 8th, and Hillary is not picking up yards, not even on the power play.

Also, disappointingly, it looks like progressive gay candidate Jim Neal is getting crushed by DSCC apparatchik Kay Hagan in the NC-SEN primary.  Feh.

In lieu of more labored horse-race analysis, I would like to provide the following as a public service announcement for all those Clinton supporters who refuse to vote for Obama, and all those Obama supporters who refuse to vote for Clinton:

In an excerpt from a speech... on Tuesday, the Arizona senator said he would “look for accomplished men and women with a proven record of excellence in the law, and a proven commitment to judicial restraint.”

“I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist — jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference,” McCain said.

The Supreme Court currently has four hardcore conservatives and one softcore one.  Justice Stevens would be 92 at the end of President McCain's first term, and Justice Ginsberg would be 79. 

So if you want Republican ideologues like Roberts and Alito to have a stranglehold on the highest court in the land for the next 20 or 30 years, if you want to see Roe v. Wade and God knows what else overturned, (not to mention a neverending bloody clusterfuck in Iraq), then by all means, please stay home or vote for Straight-Talk McCain.  I'm sure you totally won't ever regret that at all.