Blog Buzz: The Aftermath and the FEC
What happened, what it means, and where we're going
Stories and topics lighting up the Internet today include:
The Day After: The Blogosphere Gives Hillary Clinton Last Rites
The Fix gives a detailed blow-by-blow of all the reasons that it's almost certainly, positively, gotta be, we all agree, over. Jerome Armstrong at MyDD breaks down the exits to see how it all went down (Andrew Sullivan says black voters killed Clinton), while lib colleague Kos checks out how the pollsters did. Some bloggers on both the left—see these two posts at DemStrategist—and the right wonder what all the fuss is about (though for different reasons). At least one conservative—Dean Barnett at the Weekly Standard—is glad that the right won't have the Clintons to kick them around anymore. When will it all end? Lawrence O'Donnell sites an anonymous Clinton camper saying that HRC will be o-u-t by June 15.
Plodding Zombielike Forward...Where Do We Go From Here?
Steve Benen and Michael Crowley both drop an H-bomb on the Woman from Hope, suggesting that she stop trying to emulate the last successful presidential candidate from there but instead look to the last unsuccessful Hope, Ark., native—Mike Huckabee. David Frum thinks that Hillary's next move will be toward the Statehouse in Albany, N.Y. With Barack Obama now the media-presumed Democratic nominee, Kos approvingly quotes—wait for it—Newt Gingrich about the perils of the GOP running Jeremiah Wright against him. And an Andrew Sullivan reader notes that Obama's acceptance speech will come on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.
Under the Radar: Bush's New FEC Offer
President Bush tried to unjam the Federal Election Commission nomination deadlock, but more than one liberal—including Obama's election lawyer—sees the move as an attempt to make John McCain's matching-funds squabble with the commission go away.
—Robert Schlesinger
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