LOL @ this Obama/Clinton NBA Split Screen Spoof From SNL

Don't know how I missed this little gem. LOL

So An Art Gallery In NYC Titled "The Assassination of Barack Obama" Is Supposed To Be Art?

A controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could be viewed in NYC yesterday.

According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama”.

The artist thought this was going to be protected under free speech measures. Wrong.

Not 30 minutes after Arboleda set up the gallery across the street from the New York Times building, police, feds and secret service swooped in to shut the art exhibit down. While police covered the offensive storefront window with brown paper, Arboleda was led away in handcuffs to be “interrogated”.

Arboleda, 27, learned the hard way that freedom has its limits. Later, in an interview, he said: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”

Hillary Just Knew She Was Winning This Nomination Back In November.

Breaking News

The Long National Nightmare Is Over....

Barack Obama Won.

146 years ago the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. 146 years later we have our first African American presidential nominee heading to the fall.

More importantly we have the far better of the two remaining contenders for the office. I'm overwhelmed.

.......and now unto McCain, Mr. T forecasts the race for the White House in the future for you Johnny...

Clinton Supporter This Weekend @ The DNC Meeting On Saturday

Wow this lady sucks. Plus she looks like Cameron Diaz's old lady friend from "There's Something About Mary" which in and of itself would entertain me but couple that with the ideological flim-flam coming out of her it does not.

Hillary Hints At Possible Obama Assassination For Why She Stays In The Race

This is clumsy, inarticulate and I don't think she meant it and she probably is tired but this is bad and for the first time this campaign process I feel like I may sit out this election for the greater good.

I'm really starting to think short of Obama campaigning with Hacksaw Jim Duggan he's not going to quell the angst America has in voting for a person of color and that there are forces at work here that will likely do him in if he gets too close to the office. People are speaking in too many dog whistles right now. It's just not in this country to elect a non-white man. I'm starting to feel like to support Obama may actually be signing his death warrant. Unfortunately I couldn't support anybody left in the race so I may not even vote. I don't want to make his little girls orphans.

Black people can pay taxes like everybody else, follow the rule of law, work as hard as their white counterparts and earn all the rights afforded to them but being president isn't a realistic goal. Not in this country. Not at this time. It's just not going to happen and it's sad. [ChrisRock] Blacks can't teach their kids when they're young that sky's the limit in America, when you're black the limit is the sky. [/ChrisRock]

My man Keith with his special commentary tonight on this episode:

Politics, Race & What Hillary Should Do

This right here is real talk. You've got three minutes and you know it so listen up.

This Is Funny Because It's True

Hillary makes it so easy to be made a mockery.

Hillary Boasts About Herself Getting White Support & Barack Not Getting It

This is desperate, divisive and dumb and now since I've gone through the 'D' section of the dictionary you may watch the clip and hear it from her mouth.

Patriotism

And "No We Can't" Wins Again...

Bitch.

I couldn't be less pleased right now with another person than I am with her.

If she was giving a speech on my front yard, I'd go to the backyard.

This is madness.

Final Word on the Obama-Clinton PA Fight

Okay so after 7 full weeks of nothing, empty stories, no new state results, unpredictable fluctuating polls, minor gaffs, race speeches, a Seinfeldian debate about nothing, Bosnia gangster rap tall tales, McCain coasting and media mayhem, I think we're probably closer to where we started coming into Pennsylvania in the after math of Ohio & Texas primaries than we would have thought we would be at this time. Rounding into the Keystone state polls pointed to a landslide in favor of Clinton in PA and impending doom to the tune of anywhere between 15-25 points for Obama depending on which poll you lent credence. Now after all the debris and smoke clears from the scorched Earth the last several weeks provided us, contrary to differing campaigns' expectations for their opponent, I really don't think PA will have changed dramatically enough to set a new narrative either in terms of Hillary gaining a new momentum that changes the ebb and flow of this primary in any substantive way that makes her case any stronger coming out of this state and I don't see Obama taking the state in any game clinching manner that proves he's capable of stealing a game on Hillary's home court that would almost assuredly put this thing away for him. I think however, the single most important, lastong thing to come out of this entire lead up is Obama's speech on race. That's the only thing that will stand as a significant marker for history's sake in the run up to the vote on the 22nd and in the larger context of the story of this nation's search for it's 44th president. Now in all candor, there were some who saw/heard the speech that weren't going to be swayed either way by it or it's honesty no matter what he said in it that were staunch Republicans or likely Hillary voters. As a whole the biggest group of people who were moved by it were Obama voters, or people who were inclined to hear him out and didn't have it out for him to begin with. I think though on the margins there actually was probably a group of people who belonged to neither of those two groups who probably did come out of that speech in Philadelphia who weren't in his corner and were ultimately impressed by him to the point where the veil that stood in front of their faces and prevented them from giving him a look was removed and probably became fans of his in the process but again I'll reiterate this was on the margins and by and large not the overriding case he needed it to be to have any hopes of snatching up PA from the grip of Hillary. That said, I think you can assume he made some headway in an uphill fight to begin with, but there just wasn't enough time or real opportunity to affect this thing in one major way to tilt the state in his favor. The polls say on average that Hillary leads by 6 coming into this weekend and I believe you can probably tack on an extra 2% given the overwhelmingly white population in much of the state. I'm not saying whites are inherently racist against Barack, it's just that well, they represent 74% of the country and I think that matters. It gives them a certain comfort in looking to various aspects of life and civilization and seeing familiarity. That number implies that a white person walks into any room and can expect to see 7-8 people that look like them. Why wouldn't they on a conscious or subconscious level vote that way? It's probably more human nature than anything.

Obama did well, spoke circles around Hillary, kissed countless babies, embraced many older white women and outspent Hillary 5-1 in the state on commercials and advertising but in the end, we here at HAWO will project Hillary wins this by 8%. That's our story and we're sticking to it.

Next up: Indiana

New Polls Point To Good News For Obama

In the latest CNN "poll of polls" conducted March 26 through Saturday, Sen. Hillary Clinton holds a 7-percentage point lead over Sen. Barack Obama -- 49 percent to 42 percent in Pennsylvania. Nine percent remain unsure, the surveys found.

That gap is 4 percentage points narrower than a similar CNN poll of polls conducted March 26 through Wednesday. In that average, Clinton led the senator from Illinois 51 percent to 40 percent. Nine percent also were unsure then.

Also breaking today, in the national Democratic race Barack Obama has opened up a nine-point national lead over Hillary Clinton, according to the latest Gallup Poll.

The poll notes that the Clinton's released their tax statements Friday, and that the Mark Penn (Top Clinton Campaign Stretegist) mini-scandal might have affected the numbers.

But it's not all good news for the Freshman Senator. One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim, a mistaken impression that lingers across party lines. In a poll released March 26, 14 percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly identified him as Muslim, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just over half of each group correctly identified him as Christian, while about a third said they don’t know his religion.

My Take: These polls come at a time where Team Clinton are making unforced errors almost at a daily and in some cases hourly pace. However, I don't suspect the erroneous statements and missteps to continue very much longer as, contrary to my opinion of her as a person, she's proven to be a far more astute politician more often during this nomination process than not (Remember Ohio). But you have to consider the scenario that she just can't close the deal, as much as people have tried to stigmatize Barack with the dubious attribute. Fox News has been trying to bury Obama with false Madrassa stories for months and since mid-'07 have been pumping that Jeremiah Wright story almost daily before the rest of the media investigated it extensively last month and as that narrative almost spun out of control at it's height last month Clinton still couldn't use that Obama hit to take advantage of this perceived vulnerability and sneak in the driver's seat of this race and bring everything home. For all the things breaking for her in her favor she's still managed to imagine fabricated stories of gunfire like some two-bit hip-hop artist severely damaging her credibility as experienced and seasoned in foreign affairs and bringing into question her honesty which voters, even those who back her, often question. You can't go from being up 20+ percentage points in early March in Pennsylvania after Texas & Ohio and have this kind meteoric drop in the polls with little more than 2 weeks left before the primary there. This has to point to her incompetence if not downright inability to take outright control over the campaign.

What really bothers me though is why people still believe Obama is a Muslim. You could make the assumption I guess that those numbers are from the fringe nutjob sectors of the voting electorate on both sides. You know the kind of internet conspiracy theorists that think and mold their beliefs counter to conventional wisdom just for the sake of rebelling against logic and fact so they can walk around with an increased sense of self-worth and perceived intellect. What more could Obama do about them though? How you can take a hit from the so called Jeremiah Wright scandal that took place in a Christian church he's attended for 20 years and still be seen as a Muslim is beyond me. I suspect that this percentage of nutjobs wouldn't vote for Obama in any circumstance any way and this might give them their excuse to write him off without being looked at s prejudiced [which in and of itself is ridiculous to begin with seeing how unfairly characterizing Islam as somehow bad/evil or disqualifying as a character trait for someone serious at vying for government office is the very nature of prejudice.] It's unfortunate though if recent presidential election history is any precursor to how this election is going to be that he'll be starting off in the whole without 10% of the national electorate on his side because of the misnomer that he is a Muslim.

Funny

What Does Winning Look Like?

Simple question.

Would winning quantify as having her up under your arm piece?

LOL, cheap way of injecting more Amanda Diva into a post. I know. But I promised more a while back and you'll find I keep my word when I can. And to answer my own question, this is most definitely winning. If you're at a BlackJack table and you look down at a hand that even somewhat resembles an Amanda Diva, you push all your chips to the middle of the table. It's a No-Brainer.

Can winning be born out of bringing great music to people who might otherwise have missed it?

Azur ft. D'angelo - Love Is So Cold
Lauryn Hill - Just Like Water
Blulight - Sex Is On My Mind
V- Pretty Baby

I'd like to think so or else I've been wasting my damn time. LOL



Perhaps these points are contentious but what isn't contentious is what winning is not. Winning is not fracturing the party in a year where losing shouldn't even be a considerable option for the Democrats just for the sake of winning the party nomination only to ultimately lose the battle versus John McCain in November. Winning is not conceding the black vote to Obama and then allowing surrogates to plant the seed of an imaginary racial choice to the remaining 70% white vote and appeal to the tribal divides of people to cut into Obama's vote because all other measure's have failed. Winning is not allowing for this kind of divisive tool to be waged by people who represent you and then not publicly disavowing this kind of talk until you've garnished full advantage of it's racial benefits after two days and the news tide is now calling you out on it. No that is not winning, it's not even gamesmanship. It's something more sinister that can't even be recognized as within the rulebook of any sport. While it's indiscernible that the Clintons are not racists it's clear that they'll use whatever combination they can use to open Obama's safe and subtract from his flock, even if this includes imploring racial quotients.

This is not winning. This is losing and not having the decency or honor to concede the contest before the score chimes in with the buzzer at the end of the game. This is looking up and realizing the deficit is too large to overcome and the opponent is moving to the next round of the playoffs but you're deadset on a few dirty plays here and there, venting your frustration. This is maybe injuring a player or two from the team in a way of saying if I'm going down I'm taking you with me.

This is not what winning looks like. John McCain is winning and if John McCain is losing, what is undeniable is we're losing.

Absolute Gutter Politics

"I don't understand why you gotta take something that's perfectly good and mess it up..."-Frank Lucas

What Hillary and her surrogates and flunky losers are doing is tantamount to what this scene depicts. They're stepping all over the good dope the Democratic Party espouses and labeling it under the umbrella "Progressive". I've got a problem with that. In the most latest incident last week, Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate and a fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton inferred Democrat Barack Obama only achieved his status in this presidential campaign because he's black. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," Geraldine Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., in an interview published last Friday. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

Ummmm, no.

She of all people should know that sticking out from the pack and not looking like everyone else works counter progressive towards the ends one is trying to achieve most times in life. To the point of her statement, I don't doubt there is a certain block that is voting for Barack because they favor the narrative of America overcoming her historical prejudices and actually electing it's first African-American president. No doubt about that. I'll concede that point, but you want to tell me that there isn't a sizable population that still permeates in society that could never bring itself to even consider Mr. Obama, for all his excellent foresight, credentials, soaring oratory, intelligence and capability simply for that same reason -- that he happens to look more like me than them? There's no imperial data or evidence to prove either way which one of those groups is larger and more prevalent in this voting cycle so I'll stop just short of offering my guess but it seems to me the fact that this is even being brought up means we've lost as a party and that being liberal means something far more different to me then older more quote en quote "seasoned and experienced" Democrats. Then again, what do you expect? I mean you can go down the list of the Clinton campaigns greatest hits and see familiar tunes equally as offensive or worse:

• The suggestion that Barack Obama was part of a drug ring earlier in life by Robert "I created BET to appeal to black people's worse instincts and pigeonhole and poison the outlook of black youth" Johnson
  
• The suggestion that Barack Obama parties, rolls with, gets down with, is in bed with "slum lords" in Chicago - Hillary
• Barack Obama is Jesse Jackson - Bill Clinton
• The non-confirmation/opinion, maybe-he-is-maybe-he-isn't, statement by Hillary on 60 Minutes a few weeks back about whether Barack was a Muslim
• The mysterious pictures that have been attributed to the Clinton Campaign that show Barack dressed in traditional attire of the African country he visited in 2006 that surfaced last month.

The list goes on and on, trust me...

These are not the hallmarks of real liberals. These are Republican/Karl Rovian style insults and xenophobic smears.

This is not the party that's supposed to be on the same side of the street with people that would hurl this kind of an attack. I would expect this from Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly; I wouldn't bat an eyelash if I saw this on TV from Ann Coulter, but from The Clintons? The Clintons that have been the standard bearers of the party for which I have stood up for since I was in high school? What's worse is that this kind of behavior may ultimately end up being rewarded by giving the nomination of the Democratic Party to one Hillary Clinton , cementing in my estimation and the minds of thousands of like-minded cynics, that the two major parties of the United States have no real underlining substantive difference between them. Moreover this should and probably will result in the death of whatever resurgence or peaked interest they might have been enjoying recently as a result of the RNC's near decade long streak of mismanagement, incompetence, and fouled up execution.

This is weak. Real weak. And if weakness is going to be the mascot of the Democratic Party in November and not just a riff conservative commentators echo about us in public then I'm done with it.

Why letting Michigan & Florida's delegates be seated is a BAD look

I know I'm an Obama supporter and I'm riding out until the clock is winded down and all that but see I don't think I'm really being overly biased because even if they gave Michigan and Florida a mulligan, I don't think Hillary would net more than a dozen or so total delegates in her best case scenario. Barack wouldn't stand to lose much at all. I agree Hillary would probably still win both states, but the margins wouldn't be much greater than maybe 10% to the tune of a 55-45 outcome.

In Michigan, voter turn out in January was probably suppressed to some degree because the ballot looked like Iraq's democracy under Saddaam. Some people didn't even bother wasting time best spent elsewhere (kicking rocks, watching grass grow among other things) to participate in something that wouldn't amount to much of anything. In Florida, at the time, people hadn't had as much exposure to Obama to form a real true palatable sense of the good Senator and where he stood on the issues and how he would be a differentiate himself from Hillary since it was agreed upon by the candidates that they wouldn't campaign the state. This unarguably tilted the scales in her favor in the Sunshine State because she already had high name recognition. But more to the principle, why should Barack Obama have to sit there and even have to have the score changed in any degree, however minimal it may/will be, because the refs want to have a change of heart in the middle of the contest and amend the rules of the game that everybody knew going in and seemed to have no problem agreeing on publicly last year? Both campaigns stood by the national ruling and towed the party line about Michigan & Florida's delegates being disqualified but now because there's an inkling to how the it would have resulted, Hillary's campaign is using those two states as part of a potential argument to move closer to Barack and bolster some sort of argument to the superdelegates assuming the battle goes to the convention. I think that's wrong to ask of the Obama campaign, quite frankly. They didn't fuck this up. Michigan and Florida did. The Obama Campaign shouldn't be penalized for abiding by the rules just because Florida and Michigan couldn't.

We're talking about serious stakes here. This ain't splitting hairs with your brother in the basement playing Madden when the PS2 freezes. This is real life, there are no do-overs. I'm saying, yeah I feel bad for the people of those states but we all have to follow the rules set by our superiors. If my boss told be not to leave work until 9:15 and if I leave at 9:05 anyway, I'd be facing very real consequences. If I got fired, docked pay or had my entire work card invalidated for failing to follow orders, my boss would be perfectly within his rights to consider any and all disciplinary action to my detriment to deter others from disobeying him and the other superiors. He wouldn't be trying to hear that do-over shit, give me 'one more chance' weak crap. There are rules for a reason. However small they seem to us [and I'm sounding real 'hall monitor-ish' right now but] there are real consequences for failing to adhere to the rules from above, even the ones we think are stupid. I feel bad for the people of Florida & Michigan, let me reiterate that people but I'd feel worse for the party I claim membership to if they fucked a good man that's the clear preference of all the states thus far that followed the rules and should be rewarded by having their votes counted within the guidelines of the Democratic system.

There's nothing good about this situation but there are rules in place that need to be followed and you need to have real consequences for not following them. The party officials from those states knew what was good when they went ahead anyway and disregarded what the national party was telling them. This should serve as a reminder to the democratic voters from those two states (and every state really) to make sure the people they're voting for reflect their ideals as well as have their constituencies best interest at heart in their decision making because if you don't keep up with how your people are performing once you've voted them in and pressure them into acting on the mandates you give them then you end up with this kind of mess. My advice to the people of Michigan and Florida is to write their representatives and call them and voice their displeasure with them and remember this when elections come around and hold them accountable for fucking this up for them.

I'm just happy that for the first time in a long while I can say that my state, which usually gets everything wrong when it comes to voting (most notably Bush in 2000, Bush in 2004, Clinton in 2008) finally got something right in being able to follow instructions and not get my vote disqualified here in Ohio. Michigan & Florida need to get their bars up.

Barack recieves around 30% of the Latino vote in Texas & California

What happened to the relationship between us? What did we do to you all? We ain't been able to agree on anything since "Maria, Maria"



But seriously, when have the Clintons ever made their hallmark Latino issues? If someone can explain this to me logically I'll give you any amount of money. This is just blind racism. People who vote against a candidate on the basis of race, their vote shouldn't have as much weight as people who vote on principle.

Open your minds. Imagine you were blind and all you had to go on were words. You'd have to imagine Barack would be winning the blind Latino vote even if he's losing the ones who have sight.

And Hillary's Hail Mary Is Caught...

You have to admit it, if this Democratic race was a wrestling match it'd be a Iron Man match. If it were a college football game it'd go until the point in OT that you'd have to go for two.

I wish I could have gotten on here tonight to tell you Barack won a couple games on Hillary's home court, but I can't with a straight face any more than I can tell you Michael Jackson is Puerto Rican or that R.Kelly isn't a sexual deviant.

On the Republican side, Johnny Mac hemmed up
the nomination and put the final nail in the coffin of his naysayers and far-right opposition. John McCain most certainly isn't my guy let me make that perfectly clear. I couldn't imagine myself even considering him unless Hillary ends up with the nomination but I have got to say, if anyone deserves their moment in the sun, if anything like karma ever existed to balance out the sting of injustice and the validation of perseverance, John McCain has earned his time of glory. The man is a genuine American hero and the champion of courage personified and ought to be honored by everyone that salutes the American flag, the same one he was willing to be tortured and mangled for.

All of that said, the Democratic Race is going to look something like Casino now and Hillary is going to be Joe Pesci. Resiliant, persistent and headstrong.

"You beat Nicky with fists he came back with a knife, you beat him with a knife Nicky came back with a gun, and if you beat Nicky with a gun you better kill him, because he would come back and back and back until one of you was dead"

Hillary supporters will spin this like Barack still won't be up 100 plus delegates tonite. They'll say he lost the momentum. They'll say his donations lead won't matter. They'll treat this as if it now makes Hillary the frontrunner. This just simply isn't true. She still has a lot of ground to make up and by all the estimates of the remaining states and territories unspoken for until now, that won't change. He'll still have close to an 100 delegate lead and all that will change is that John McCain will have gained an upper hand argumentatively because neither Democratic candidate will have the time to fully engage him as they definitely should be doing at this time. The supporters from both camps will end up despising the other candidate and become more bitter and jagged toward the notion of the opposition being the flag bearer for the party in November. Both candidates will have cut each other down so much that the bulk of John McCain's legwork will have been carved out. There is no winning hand in stringing this out. In fact, I urge the good people that read this blog, yes all five of you, lol, to write your elected state democratic representatives and flood either their internet or postal mailboxes with letters to urge them that this race won't come to that. urge them to move towards rallying around Barack Obama and force Hillary to back out now. This is pointless. Do what is good for the party and not what's of interest to the Republicans and media.

Back to Casino, if this race plays itself out like the movie for Hillary, it'll end up with her in a hollow ditch in the middle of a cornfield. Only in this story the democratic electorate will be in the plot next to her instead of Nicky's brother.

Don't just allow her to bludgeon our chances in November! Vote. Be heard.

Call me crazy but...

I believe that Barack Obama has a serious opportunity in front of him with Tuesday's upcoming voters in my home state of Ohio and this is big big news. I remember watching the Potomic Primaries (Virginia, DC & Maryland) a couple weeks back when Barack swept through there and knocked down the buildings like King Kong with a cup of Incredible Hulk and as the great and wise political prognosticators began corronating him as the imminent Democratic nominee I reserved such judgment and tempered my expectations because I knew he had a ton of time in between then and now for his momentum to be blunted.


I just knew giving Bill, Hillary and the lot of the rest of her female/working class/xenophobic voting block who'd rather a stick of Spearmint gum sit in the White House than a black man [not Hillary's doing rather but just an unfortunate fact of America] time of that length to trot out some silliness and raise all sorts of distractions that the worst would happen. Plus I think a poll that I came by that night showed her with an edge here to the tune of 54% - 34% which is what us Hip-Hop fans would coin "a wrap" and that whatever the fever that swept across the nation for the man at that time wasn't gonna catch on here. Not so much that I was on some Uncle Ruckus shit [Don't trust them new niggas over there] even though I wouldn't put it past Bill's pseudo-black ass but I know my state. I know the breakdown. I've lived in Cincinnati all my life. While it's largely black and progressive, when you travel beyond the city limits on into the suburbs the Bill Cunningham, redneck, xenophobic, far-right element is powerful.


Now factoring in all that, you still end up with mostly Democratic representatives. I also know Columbus very much as I've weathered many administrations in the good old OS of U in Ohio's capital city and that place is a bastion for Democrats. There's literally a liberal froth set over that city that's practically irrevocable in it's DNA. And then you have Cleveland, whose sent Dennis Kucinich to Congress to represent them [ need I say more?] So when you take a look at the major cities you begin to wonder why couldn't Barack win here? Seems, doable right? Then you remember all the rural, farmlands in between that you pass on the highways en route to these major cities I name and you get a far more conservative, less diverse, almost monolithic group of people. Every time I make the trip from Columbus to Cincinnati or vice versa, I always think to myself how much I don't want my car to die on me leaving my black ass out in the haystacks. Those people aren't Obama votes and it's really been an uphill climb for him, but the latest and perhaps last polls to come out of Ohio before Tuesday tell a story that lends great credibility to him as a candidate and illustrate his strength and this seemingly cult-like following that is sweeping the nation.

The University of Cincinnati Ohio Poll, conducted on 21-24 Feb. has shown Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama and John Edwards with 47% to 39% and 9% respectively. The Poll has shown Clinton in 8 % point lead over Obama. The poll has 4.4% margin of error (MoE).

The Public Policy Polling Ohio Poll, conducted on 23-24 Feb. has exhibited that Hillary Clinton is leading Barack Obama with 50% to 46%. With MoE 4.0%, the PPP Ohio poll has indicated a close contest showing Clinton with a slim lead of 4% points over Obama.

The American Research Group’s Ohio Poll, conducted on 23-24 Feb. has shown Hillary Clinton with 49% and Barack Obama with 39%. According to the ARG poll with MoE 4.0%, Clinton is having 10% points lead over Obama.

Conducted on 25 Feb., the Rasmussen Reports Ohio Poll has shown Hillary Clinton leading with 48% and Barack Obama at number two slot with 43%. The poll has shown Clinton having 5% points lead over Obama. The poll has 3.3% MoE.

The Survey USA Ohio poll, conducted on Feb. 24-25, has shown Hillary Clinton 50% and Barack Obama 44% democratic support. With MoE 3.5%, the poll has indicated that Clinton is having 6% point lead over Obama.

The Reuters/C Span/Houston Chronicle/Zogby Poll, conducted on 26-28 Feb., has shown Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama with 44% to 42%. The poll, with MoE 3.7%, has indicated tight contests in Democratic polls in Ohio. It has shown Clinton with just a 4% point lead over Obama.

Conducted on 28 Feb., Rasmussen Reports Ohio poll has revealed something highly disturbing for Clinton. Of course, it has shown Clinton leading Obama, but with 47% to 45%. Signaling very tight contests ahead, the poll – with MoE 3.4% – has shown Clinton with just 2% points ahead Obama.

If he messes around and wins Texas, Vermont and makes it interesting in Rhode Island and Ohio, then we'll know he's the real deal and the Democratic powers that be, that decide on the future of the party in dark, smoke-filled rooms at late hours of the day need to intervene and inform Bill as Hillary's corner man that she's taking too much of a beating and risks real brain damage for the party if he doesn't throw in the towel for her. I suspect, that's the magnanimous gesture we need to unify as party for the bigger stakes of the future of America and the uplifting of a country that looks like it went two girls/one cup in the middle east; I suspect this is the only card she has left to play in order to sustain the Clinton brand in the party; Unfortunately I also suspect a far different outcome and that this game is going extra innings if Hillary's got a say so in the matter.

But you've got to admit, in a secretive, hold-your-cards-tight-to-your-chest kind of way, it looks good for him right now.