Weekend Update

I'm going to write about Obama's bus tour of western PA (with photos) over at Dreaming Up Daily later, so I'll just deal with "other news" here. Except to note that Obama drew some 22,000 for a rally at Penn State, and filled the hall in Harrisburg with 2,000 for a town meeting. We saw the phenomenon of big crowds in Ohio and Texas that didn't translate into popular vote wins, but they did indicate he was going to do well.

As for Texas, stalwart Obama folks withstood punishing challenges at district conventions by Hillaryites this weekend to provide Obama with an overall delegate win. When it finally becomes official, Obama will have won the delegate contest in Texas. The question left at the moment is how many delegates will be added to his totals.

He'll be adding one more on Monday, when it's expected that Obama will be endorsed by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. It's also being reported that all the North Carolina Members of Congress will endorse Obama before that state's May primary. Needless to say, those are all also super-delegates.

Sunday brought Obama's third successive day of leading the Gallup tracking poll nationally beyond the margin of error, and by the most he's ever led: a full ten points. At 52% to 42%, it's also three days straight that he's been above the 50% threshold.

Frank Rich's Sunday column was a devastating critique of Hillary's snipergate. And Jed Report provides nostalgic videos of other candidates who, like Hillary, vowed to stay in the race through the convention--like Mitt Romney, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee...in a diary called "A leading indicator of a doomed candidacy."

Another Sunday story was about the deadbeat Hillary campaign with months of unpaid debts owed to small vendors. This is the last day of March, so we'll soon be hearing how much each campaign took in for the month.