We heard yesterday that legislators were speaking out against the Supreme Court decision that upholds an Indiana law which prevents people from voting unless they have a picture ID.

Rep. Keith Ellison, from my state of Minnesota, wrote a column in today's newspaper revealing the truth of this issue and reminds us of what's at stake with voting rights in this country: It's not just women's right to choose or privacy rights that are ask risk; the fundamental building block of Democracy is under attack.

Let's have a look at what Ellison found:

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/comme ntary/18669089.html

CNN has Obama winning Guam by 6% as of this moment.

If Obama wins in Guam, how will Clinton justify staying in the race?  Why can't she close the deal?

Guam is clearly a valuable territory of the United States; they were a crucial refuelling station during World War II.  These good citizens are clearly an excellent judge of character, and their choice of Obama speaks volumes about the national mood and his electability.

Clinton supporters, how do you think your candidate can possibly respond to this loss credibly?

I understand that many posters here are very excited about Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania, and rightfully so.  While expected by everyone who knows anything about primaries, including Obama and Clinton, it was an excellent opportunity for Clinton to scrounge up some donations, which is good, because she needs to be competative in both Indiana and North Carolina as well as pay off all the small vendors and her employee's health benefits that she's been delaying on (I know I have trouble paying bills on time, too).

Just to put things into perspective, however: Last night was a solid, but not spectacular, win for Hillary Clinton.  You need to look at it from a historical perspective with regards to the season and you'll see that it's a middle-of-the-road win and mostly notable for simply being the first primary challenge in a month and a half.

So I was asked to collect the hatchet job summaries I made today.

No, I don't appreciate hatchet jobs.  The reason I'm posting this is so that people realize just how many times we've seen the same attacks over and over.

Without further ado:

I just got back from a Minnesota for Obama meeting at Bar Abeline in the lovely area of Uptown, Minneapolis, and the eighth superedelegate from my state has announced for Obama.

Nancy Larson, a silver-haired, kindly woman, had very nice things to say about Hillary Clinton, but noted to the packed restaurant/bar that only Obama could bring so many people out on a Sunday on one of the nicest days so far this year to just get ideas on how we can help the campaign and really bring change to Washington and the country.

Mayor R.T. Rybak, who is my personal choice to take on Tim Pawlenty next time around for Governor, addressed the crowd as well; he noted that we're going to continue taking on trumped up attacks like the "bitter" issue, so we might as well get used to it... but he also said that we can't let it get us down or stop getting out our message.  If you want to help out by phonebanking for Obama, here's the link to learn more about it:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/p honebankmap/

Disclaimer: The first link is to Fox News.  I'm not surrupticiously linking Fox as if it were a viable news source.  What I am doing is linking to a video of an interview they did with Catholic priest Father Michael Pfleger, an inner city white pastor with a black congregation.

Without further ado...

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.ht ml?videoId=1fd1c0cf-5c80-4d75-996f-bd53b 2461ae0&sMPlaylistID=

There's a little from him in the pulpit here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqX9Q4zMA U

(please note, corrected numbers) Okay, a little envelope math.

Pledged delegates: 3251
Superdelegates: 793

Total delegates: 4047
Total needed to be the nominee: 2024

Obama's pledged total: 1414
Clinton's pledged total: 1243

(numbers taken from CNN)

All that is straightforward, we know all that.  But the significant thing here is that the superdelegates who are remaining neutral are looking for a good reason to endorse one candidate over another; they don't want to risk their own political careers by going against the leader as assigned by the people.  We all know how Democrats feel about that.

Are you guys ready? Let's roll.

--Todd Beamer, passenger of United Flight 93, American Hero

I'm tired.  So tired.  I've been blogging here for a couple of weeks now, and I get discouraged at all the infighting and recrimination between Clinton supporters and Obama supporters.  When I went on vacation for a few days last week, however, I didn't see any of that from people.  

There were folks that were Clinton supporters and were suspicious of Obama, there were Obama supporters who were angry with what they saw as Clinton's dirty tricks, but all of them realize that we're at a critical juncture, and we can't allow ourselves to get distracted from the real goal.