Please excuse the following rant.

You can’t get rid of Hillary Clinton, she wont go away. She’s like the terminator, you think you’ve eliminated her and she keeps regenerating herself. Is it dead? No, it’s not…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s going to take a lot of work to destroy the Clinton machine. And yes, the way I envision the Clinton machine is something like this —->

Whew, now that that’s off my chest…

Last night Clinton won Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas, and Obama won Vermont. I completely anticipated VT to be in the Obama category, I was less optimistic about Ohio. Honestly thought he had a shot in Texas with his big ad buys and huge rallies. Ultimately, I think the Hispanic vote really came out for Clinton in an unprecedented way, and she was able to regain her pre-Potomac Primaries coalition of women, traditional Democrats and downscale voters.

That said, Obama did well last night. This is the narrative that isn’t going to be covered until tomorrow, possibly Thursday. He won in Texas’ inner cities that award more delegates by substantial margins and most likely, took the caucus.

Of course the headlines today are going to be focused on the Clinton victory in the popular vote, but look for the delegate story in the coming days. Rhode Island and Vermont will essentially net 0 for both candidates… they both were 60-40 margins.

One final thing of note from last night:
Dennis Kucinich will keep his congressional seat. With votes still being counted at this hour he looks on track to defeat Cleveland City Councilman Chimperman 52-38. Chimperman contested Kucinich in a primary fight forcing Kucinich to drop his presidential campaign to defend his house seat. In yesterday’s primary, Chimperman was well financed but Kucinich benefited from a divided opposition in that 4 Democratic candidates were on the ballot in OH-10.