--If you doubted that the Obama campaign wants to discredit and neutralize one of those Clintons, check out this excerpt from an email sent by Obama press secretary Bill Burton:
below are the real vote tallies from the precincts that former President Bill Clinton visited tonight:
Greenville 14 607 – Obama 80% (488 votes), Clinton 14.8% (90), Edwards 2% (12)
Greenville 19 705 – Obama 78% (548), Clinton 16% (115), Edwards 5% (37)
--CNN exit polls affirm the idea that Bill did not help.
--On MSNBC Pat Buchanan--say what you will about him, he is shrewd about campaign politics--is declaring that Bill Clinton "is smiling tonight" because the racial-polarization strategy "is working."
--And yet: Conventional wisdom is already trashing Bill for likening Obama to Jesse Jackson. Howard Fineman calls the comment "over the line" and says it "really did damage to his wife's campaign."
--Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama in tomorrow's Times.
--Whether by design or not, the demographics visible behind Obama during his victory speech were much whiter than his actual vote today.
--John Edwards's haul among black women: 2 percent
--Michael Crowley