The dog days of... March?

I think even I may have presidential fatigue, and not just the kind that comes after 7.5 years of the Bush administration. With no one actually voting until April 22nd (Pennsylvania) and then on May 6th (Indiana and North Carolina), the campaigns have gone stagnant. Clinton did her part by stirring up the Wright mess, but Obama pushed back with one of the most important speeches of a generation (not to be hyperbolic or anything). Bill Richardson followed his heart and his head, endorsing Barack shortly after, but no other super delegates followed his lead.

But other than that, the echo chamber has been left to debate the after-effects of the Wright debacle. At least they get to finally talk about race, which is making Pat Buchanan so happy that he might explode, covering Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski with Hot, Nativist Craziness. Until a new story breaks, we're stuck with this one, so hopefully Barack can just wait it out. Stories like the Hillary's Bosnia lie, which she somehow made about Wright. I'm sure more stories like that are out there: ones that undermine the whole argument for her candidacy.

Not having cable news for a few days has been a mixed blessing. I feel a little out of the loop, getting all of my info from the blogosphere. But, I don't have to here about the daily movements of tracking polls that look like this:



The race is basically tied, and nothing in the last two weeks has changed that: not Wright, not Richardson, not Bosnia. I believe the double-helix structure goes back even farther, probably to right around March 5th.

It is clear that as long as HRC has a mathematically possible (though highly unlikely) path to the nomination, she will not bow out gracefully. Are there any circumstances that would change this? Howard Dean working with other party leaders to finally fix it? An Obama upset in Pennsylvania? The elusive Gore endorsement of BHO? My guess is none or even all of these will do the trick. See you at the convention!