To be serious, we must wait to see if Clinton succeeds at “TOP”: Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. There's the case she wins the nomination if she wins in those three big states.

Ohio and Texas are where everyone will be looking, and Obama may have won it if he wins there, but don't neglect Pennsylvania.

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There were only four or five voters at my polling
place in the middle of the day; although I'm sure
there are far more there now. I saw several Obama
signs in yards nearby, but there were no official
signs anywhere. I guess the Obama people and the
Clinton people are so sure that Obama will win around
here that they didn't bother to put out any campaign
material.

I thought that Clinton at least had a chance in
Virginia, but according to the local coverage I'm
listening to on WAMU, Obama seems to be winning there
as well. Our governor endorsed her (DC's mayor and
Virginia's governor endorsed Obama), but of course
that didn't help any–Maryland has lots of African
Americans and young people, who strongly favor Obama.
I voted for her though; I was surprised how moved I
was after voting for a woman for president for the
first time (dang, I'm tearing up again now); it must
be what many African Americans feel voting for a Black
person for president for the first time (at least the
first time for one who has a good chance of winning).
This election sure has made a lot of previously (to
some extent) marginalized people feel good.

I was intrigued to hear that in Virginia, Clinton has
done well in the same areas that Huckabee has done
well; the rural area in the southwestern part of the
state and the mountainous area.

His words are NOT just platitudes -they are truely and deeply inspirational. The ability of a person to inspire an entire people is the stuff of major change. Look at the words of Lincoln, listen to FDR rally a people out of a depression, listen to the speeches of Churchill who keep an entire nation going under terrible stress. Listen to Ghandi who inspired hundreds of millions to throw off the cloak of colonialism or Martin Luther King who brought black people out into the cleansing sunshine of this nation.

Yes, words and inspiration can be used for evil purposes, look at Hitler. However, I have no questions about Obama's character after he spurned money that his Harvard degree would have brought and spent his time helping the least amoung us. In short, Obama can bring this nation a giant step ahead. Not all he would want nor all we could hope for but at the very minimum regain what Bush has devastated.