The votes are in and, despite what you may have read (including here on Scanner), Tuesday's Superness was not finished entirely until late last night, when the last of the returns from the Texas caucuses rolled in. The final winner may not be who you previously heard...
From an e-mail sent out by the Obama campaign just before midnight on Wednesday night:
Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday's elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183.
That's a net gain of 4 delegates out of more than 370 delegates available from all the states that voted.
All that talk of Clinton victory and a huge surge of momentum... for a gain of four delegates? How does that stick in your craw, Chris Matthews?
Nonetheless, it's all about perception and based on that (perception, by the way, formed by the same media that want the story to go on as long as possible so they have good copy), the clear winner in Tuesday's election would then be the following candidate:
Seriously, though, we said the same thing yesterday about this only helping McCain pull away. And yes, Hillary Clinton clearly has the momentum on the Democratic side and for that she should really be pictured here. But, man... is it our imagination or was Johnny really not at all that un-good looking back in the 1870's?!
We might have to have a hot or not... or worse, a "Who Would You Rather: 1974 John McCain or 2008 Barack Obama?"