Obama intercepts Hillary’s hail mary

Drudge is calling Obama ‘the nominee.’ It’s not a done deal, but it now seems inevitable thanks to a decisive win in North Carolina and a near draw in Indiana. The aftermath though, will certainly focus more on last night’s loser.

Hillary canceled her media appearances this morning. Obviously had she not done that, she could have looked forward to tough questions on her electability. I think last night’s results corroded her well trodden answers.

Since she’s behind in every metric, she couldn’t lose ground in either the delegate count or popular vote and maintain a claim to the nomination. As long as she was getting closer using springboards like Pennsylvania she could buy time and make the argument to unpledged super-delegates that Obama wasn’t electable vs. McCain — praying that they would come to her rescue. But the near total reversal of her momentum last night seems to have ended that hail mary strategy.

With absolutely no technical recourse remaining that would yield her the nomination, I can’t imagine what her justification for staying in this race would be aside from narrowly focusing on reinstating delegates from MI and FL. She’s running out of arguments and people are running out of patience.