Yeah, yeah, we know that we still have to cross 2,025 and resolve Michigan and Florida. But it's been 491 days since we started on January 16, 2007 and today - May 20, 2008, call it VO Day - is a significant milestone in this epic and historic campaign for the only metric that really mattered: will of the voter, elected, pledged delegates. We know it, the media knows it, the Clinton camp knows it and most important, the superdelegates know it.
The Fall campaign will not be a slam dunk and we still have a lot of work to do with older voters, working class Whites, Latinos and most Clinton supporters. We're going to need about 65,000,000 votes in November. 65,000,000 is almost 50,000,000 more people than have voted for Barack to date. That's sobering. But this is a good time to celebrate a little bit, say thank you and look back at some key moments in the longest, closest and most exciting primary contest in American history.
· Schumer: 60 Dem Senators Possible (Josh Orton)
· Jindal Out (Josh Orton)
· Scalise and Kennedy Shilling for Big Oil (DailyKingFish)
· IA: Grassley and Christian conservatives at odds (desmoinesdem)
· Richardson tells McCain to stop whining (fbihop)
· OR-SEN: New DSCC/IE ad in Oregon (karichisholm)
· NM Dems GET the netroots; GOP not so much (fbihop)
· Louisiana House 2Q Fundraising #'s (DailyKingFish)
· OR-SEN: Merkley's Netroots Nation video (karichisholm)
· AK-Sen: New Begich Ad (Matt Browner Hamlin)
· Not a Bad Cover for Obama in Colorado (Jonathan Singer)
· Chris Matthews: Open Up Your Hearts (Jonathan Singer)