[10PM] I’m listening to NPR’s primary coverage, given I have no cable or satellite TV. I’ve been ambivalent about the race ever since Edwards dropped out, and perhaps even before then. I haven’t personally picked a favorite outright between Clinton and Obama for the same reasons Edwards was rumored to not have. While both are fine candidates, both have glaring weaknesses. Clinton’s weaknesses are readily apparent–people don’t like her, she has lots of “baggage”.

I agree with what Paul Krugman recently wrote about Barack Obama:

Mr. Obama, instead of emphasizing the harm done by the other party’s rule, likes to blame both sides for our sorry political state. And in his speeches he promises not a rejection of Republicanism but an era of postpartisan unity.

That — along with his adoption of conservative talking points on the crucial issue of health care — is why Mr. Obama’s rise has caused such division among progressive activists, the very people one might have expected to be unified and energized by the prospect of finally ending the long era of Republican political dominance.

Some progressives are appalled by the direction their party seems to have taken: they wanted another F.D.R., yet feel that they’re getting an oratorically upgraded version of Michael Bloomberg instead.

Yes, with no offense meant to my friends who support Barack Obama, I sometimes wonder how they can so easily support a man who seems so eager to simply let the Bush administration off the hook. And maybe Obama will make a turn way left if he wins and be able to clean up Bush’s messes. From time to time in the past few months, I’ve been sold on the “inspirational” part of Obama’s campaign. But…

It’s not worth rambling on about. This will all likely be over shortly. All discussion is moot.

[11:10PM] Looks like Clinton will win Ohio. She may even win Texas, although the delegate count may not favor her. In any case, I don’t expect she’ll drop out of the race after tonight, given that any media report of Clinton momentum will likely sway voters in the remaining states. See, I have little faith in voters to really figure out in their heart of hearts whom they think is the best candidate. If the news media reports Obama Fever, they want it. If they report that Clinton is making a comeback, they’ll want to be on that bandwagon.

So, like I said, I’m ambivalent. Just listening to McCain’s victory speech tonight about fighting terrorism and “winning with honor” in Iraq, I’ll certainly be supportive if whomever the Democrats put up. I think it’s a shame that very little coverage tonight has been on the 8 U.S. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq today. I honestly think many Americans have even forgotten we’re still there and that the war has been a disaster. When McCain tells them that the surge is working and that we ought to stay, he will sound credible…while Clinton voted to authorize the war and Obama really is running a campaign based on one speech he gave back in 2002 (that’s one of Hillary’s recent criticisms, and I think it’s valid, and I think McCain will use it against him…I can’t stand it that Hillary can’t admit her vote was a mistake, but I also think it is unfair to extrapolate Obama’s opposition to how he would’ve voted had he been a member of the U.S. Senate).

I’m so glad I don’t have cable or satellite, though. I really don’t care how Latinos and Women and Catholics and White Union Members and Lepers-over-60 voted. Enough with the damn exit polls…