I bet a certain someone wishes his new GM concoction could move at the speed of sound...

This is the first time I have ever been proud of my country...

Sniffle... Sniffle...

This is the first time I have ever been proud of my country-

John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday morning.

Frankly, I am not surprised. The more that people get to know Obama the worse his poll numbers get.

Perhaps most startlingly to Democrats, Reuters/Zogby measures that McCain is seen as the better manager of the economy, by a margin of 49 percent to 40 percent over Obama. In that poll half of voters cited the economy as the most important issue, as other surveys have as well.

I know the liberals believe that the drilling debate is helping them. As long as they can continue to blame the oil companies instead of their own policies, they feel they can win this with the American people. That is a bunch of hooey.

The idea that we have oil in ground, right here in the US, that the government will not allow us to drill, is infuriating to most Americans.

PS. I am being factious when it comes to this being the first time I have been proud of my country. See Michelle Obama for an explanation.

So Clinton was the big winner last night...

...picking up wins in Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island, while Obama got Vermont.

Despite that, Clinton only picked up a net 23 delegates - Obama still leads by 134 (according to this count). Including those Superdelegates who've committed themselves, Obama leads by 95.

And the number of delegates yet to be won is dwindling fast. Only 743 regular delegates (there are 3,253 of them, total), and 352 Superdelegates.

So this thing is still a tossup, and that doesn't even take the possibility of do-overs in Michigan and Florida into account.

But, for now, Obama's momentum seems to have stopped. The tide may have turned in Clinton's favor. I'm on record thinking that's a good thing: putting somebody with Obama's lack of experience in the White House? Not smart.

And yet, I'm torn. If the Democrats nominate Obama, think of the blogging! The sheer volume of mockery! I've got half a column written in my head already, and lemme tell ya, it's a good one!

A thought on the Wisconsin Democrat Primary

Since the Wisconsin Primary, I've been thinking about the big Obama win on the Democrat side. The conservative crossover vote was clearly but a drop in the bucket, and while most conservatives who crossed voted for Hillary, I know that Obama still picked up some votes from that demographic. Overall, I think he might have even won the crossover vote. I've talked with a number of people in the past couple of weeks who typically identify with Republicans but aren't into politics very much. The consensus I've gotten from them is that they think a Democrat is going to win the White House this fall and that they really like Obama on a personal level. Typically, when I'd bring up Obama negatives, I'd get waved off and have to listen to generalized platitudes about change, which tells me that for those who aren't listening closely, Obama's marketing is sinking in. Some voted in the primary, some did not, but the common threads in their opinions on things lead me to believe (totally anecdotally) that he may be able to lure loosely affiliated Republican voters in November unless the McCain campaign can find a way to crack through the misty glow surrounding him.