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"Good evening! I&amp;#x27;m back (later than expected, of course) to update you on this evening&amp;#x27;s results. The weather in DC turned nasty this afternoon, spraying ice onto the region&amp;#x27;s roads, causing a judge in Maryland to hold the polls there open until 9:30, and causing me to watch at least an hour more of primary coverage than I initially intended. But, with a dearth of results to report, there has been a lot of interesting news to come out this evening. Tonight, the Senate voted to reauthorize (and expand) the Bush Administration&amp;#x27;s warrantless wiretapping program, without the presence of Hillary Clinton, who flew to Texas yesterday to start campaigning in one of her must-get states. Obama managed to get one vote of two in against the bill before heading off to Wisconsin for his big rally, while McCain (with his rally scheduled in the DC suburb of Alexandria, VA) managed to vote for the reauthorization both times. Do you think that perhaps Obama might mention that Clinton was too busy trying to win a primary in 3 weeks to vote on a major Bush Administration initiative the Democratic base is fired up against? I do, too, especially after her speech tonight in El Paso in which she called him unprepared to lead and suggested he was &amp;amp;quot;all hat and no cattle&amp;amp;quot; and didn&amp;#x27;t bother to offer him congratulations on his wins in DC and Virginia. Clinton&amp;#x27;s camp continued to experience some shake-ups tonight, including the loss of deputy campaign manager&amp;amp;#8212;and friend of fired campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle&amp;amp;#8212;Mike Henry. Mike&amp;#x27;s the one that wrote the infamous and leaked skip-Iowa memo, and he is reportedly stepping aside on the day of 3 primaries in order to allow Clinton&amp;#x27;s new campaign manager (and former chief of staff from her First Lady days) Maggie Williams to assemble her own team. It&amp;#x27;s pretty clear at this point that the entire Clinton campaign recognizes not only their increasingly dire straits as a campaign but also the necessity to start pulling out all the stops. One of those stops was the reappearance of the race question. Clinton supporter/surrogate Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell waded back into the quagmire today by suggesting that his state was filled with unreconstructed racists unwilling to vote for a black man. Rendell&amp;#x27;s evidence was that he beat a black Republican challenger in the 2006 election, you know, the one where Democrats had historic nationwide wins? Pennsylvania&amp;#x27;s primary, in which 158 pledged delegates are up for grabs, is set to be held on April 22nd and it&amp;#x27;s closed, meaning Rendell&amp;#x27;s unreconstructed racist conservative Democratic supporters have more than two months to think about their governor calling them racists. Now that the polls have finally been closed long enough, it turns out that all three primaries in the Potomac Primary have been won by McCain and Obama.&amp;amp;nbsp; The best projections are that Obama took all three primaries by pretty substantial margins, and analysts are predicting that, after tonight&amp;#x27;s results, Obama will be beating Clinton&amp;#x27;s superdelegate-led delegate lead. By all reports, that may well widen with next week&amp;#x27;s contests in Hawai&amp;#x27;i and Wisconsin, making it necessary for Hillary to not just win in Ohio and Texas, but to win by large margins in order to make up the distances. Keep your eye out for the race for superdelegates to intensify in the coming weeks, as well as for her surrogates in Florida and Michigan to start speaking up more loudly for their delegates to be seated. Rumors abound in Washington that the DNC might be amenable to some sort of compromise in those states after all, but that there is a lot of pressure for them to hold an alternate vote in May rather than relying on the January results from the Hillary-only primary. As for McCain, his campaign is undoubtedly breathing a strong sigh of relief tonight, having swept Mike Huckabee even in Huckabee&amp;#x27;s best-chance state. Tonight&amp;#x27;s losses for Huckabee make it nearly mathematically impossible for him to win the Republican nomination even if his campaign continues on to next week&amp;#x27;s contest in Washington state. But, without a hope of the nomination, it seems exceedingly unlikely that even with the growing McCain backlash he can continue on to the remaining Republican contests in March. So, on an icy night in the nation&amp;#x27;s capital, the Clinton and Huckabee camps are feeling an ominously cold wind sweep over their campaigns. Clinton&amp;#x27;s response seems to be to ramp up the attacks, overhaul the staff and push for a big turnout in areas she thinks she can win while minimizing the importance of Obama&amp;#x27;s wins. If Huckabee&amp;#x27;s actions to date are any guide, I guess he&amp;#x27;ll probably keep praying for the ascendancy of miracles over math. But, what did you think of tonight&amp;#x27;s events? Do you think the primary races will stay polite after tonight or will everyone&amp;#x27;s patience wear too thin for that? &amp;amp;#8212;Megan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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