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Katherine Miller has serious doubts about the ability of Barack Obama to pull off a general election victory in November:

FiveThirtyEight accuses Tennessee air time of being bargain basement:

The Church Of Scientology will be expanding their act into a building with a strong tradition of sheltering Republican campaigns:

Angelia has some info on Barack Obama’s general election campaign kickoff just a hop, skip and a jump

Obama picked up support with white women, and won Latinos yesterday.

Hillary lost everywhere in Virginia, picking up her share of delegates only in the southwest of the commonwealth.  Northern Virginia, Richmond and the Norfolk / Hampton Roads area all went solidly to Obama. As for Maryland and the District - things were never going to be close there, anyhow.

Things are not looking good for Ms. Rodham.

Nathan Moore analyzes the lay of the land in the coming primaries on the Democratic primary and sees Hillary Clinton losing ground fast:

Barack Obama ought to be able to sweep the Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia primaries.

Why? Well, the black vote, of course, naturally favorable demographics among white voters, and the equivalent of a political atomic bomb in the Washington, DC / Baltimore television markets (a combined 3.3 million household (counting overlap) between the two).