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I agree with Charlie Ransford ^^^ there were many Republicans going for Hillary and the amazing thing is Limbaugh talked of this for weeks before yet no media person picked up on it. If the votes had gone as expected then I think Clinton would have been toast. Now she is slinging more mud whilst you media types (you just said tonight on NPR) that the Black vote is going to Obama with no mention that these same votes in near the same percentages went to Gore, and Clinton before him. Also no one mentions the fact that Many in Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas (to some extent) were impacted by Katrina and many of them just happen to be Black. Still the Black vote percentage for Obama, Gore and Clinton are all into the 90%.

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Thank you Mark Shields for another good article. I would like to comment that Mrs. Clintons wins were hardly routs. In fact they were bought with a lot of amunition that will serve as well in Republican hands, especially her ranking of Mccain as more prepared for the presidency than Obama. In fact, the qualifications are slight for the presidency, and the lower standard has often been met. But as an intelligent, and learned man, Obama is as qualified as anyone. We, as a largly uneducated, prejudiced, parochial population have the good sense to fear intelligent people in positions of leadership; but how does a country survive without people actually qualified to think at the helm of state? Another comment I would offer is this: We have always embraced change as a people because we looked at our government, and our laws as a rock of stability standing against any tide or storm of change. We have been able to look to business and an unfettered free market as a source of good that might be governed to curb excess. What does one do with the rock of government when it becomes a mill stone around your neck? When government shackles the hands of the injured to keep them from acting in their own defense? When government sides with the enemies of peace, and the friends of exploitation. This thing with the economy could not have happened without years of government negligence. It has played the largest part of the relocation of national wealth to the rich. If property were not protected from taxation while labor carried the country there would be no great boom or bust of property values. If interest for housing were not protected by law, and encouraged it would not be the great drain of wealth from working people to the wealthy. So, we have loved change when the winds of change blew balmy, but when they pile up thunderheads over the bottom lands; lookout.

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Well, the reason you all in the media got it so wrong is not because of the unpredictable voters. It's because Ms. Billary outsmarted you along with the voters themselves. She calls the media biased against her and what do the idiots of the media do? Swallow it whole and serve themselves up to her for some of the most juicy prime time opportunities a political season has ever seen. Boy did she sucker you. Here's some advice: Don't think about buying any bridges for a while. By the way, have you all listened to her diction lately? She's soundin' more suth'n' by the minute, and I'll be switched if I didn't think they don't let nice girls from Chicago who talk like that into upper crusty schools like Wellesley and Yale. I will say this, though. Ms. Billary caught Obama flat-footed, and if he can't learn how to return fire a little better and look a little less like a kid with his hand caught in a cookie jar when asked long-anticipated, garden-variety questions about issues like the Rezko affair, maybe he is just too green. It's time for him to start swinging. He happens to be in the ring, and that's where you throw punches if you want to walk out instead of getting dragged out flat on your back. He can still fight a fair fight, but he can't just stand there and act surprised as he lets himself get kicked in the groin. And yes, Mark, he still hasn't answered your legitimate question about whether he plans to keep his promise to forego private fundraising and participate in the public campaign financing system. He needs to. I would really hate to think that we are starting to see a backbone issue with this once-in-a-lifetime candidate. A final parting thought about Ms. Billary. I read Frank Herbert's column today in the New York Times about Obama today, in which Mr. Herbert shines a light on her sweet response to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes when he asked her if she believes Obama is a Muslim: “No. No. Why would I? No, there is nothing to base that on. As far as I know.” I do hope Obama can find his fists and get going, because if he doesn't, I think an awful lot of democrats may just not want to soil themselves by voting for a candidate who can play that kind of card.

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Oops. I meant to say Bob Herbert, not Frank Herbert.

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According to exit polls 24% of the people who voted for Hillary in Mississippi were Republicans. (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/12/81339/4516/40/474909) This is not white people going for Hillary and blacks going for Barack. This is the Rush Limbaugh people trying to ruin the Democratic primary. This needs to be covered. Its the main reason why Hillary is still in the race. She would have lost Ohio and Texas if it weren't for Republicans trying to get her to win the primary so that a Republican will win the general election.