Hopefully this will be the last time anyone mentions Wright’s name, but of course if Obama wins the nominee, it won’t be. The Republicans will milk this for everything its worth, but hopefully by then no one will care. A recent poll shows that the majority of voters aren’t affected by the ongoing crisis between Barack and his former pastor.  Although they do believe it will affect the race in November if Obama is the nominee. At this moment, I do believe the situation with Wright is Obama’s most damaging issue, but if its the worst the GOP has by November then it won’t really matter, the voters will be pretty sick of hearing it by then and will not play much of a role.

Well it’s definitely do or die Hillary, she needs both North Carolina and Indiana to have any chance to clinch the nomination. Even the Clinton people agreed she needs to be victorious in both primaries next week. In an article today in the New York Times reported that the Obama campaign is vigorously switching things up to redefine his platform, which to me, has a surprisingly good tone to it. Check the article out here.

The longer the Democratic presidential race goes on the more damage the Democrats are doing to themselves. Clinton is obviously no longer a team player, she has no hope of winning the nominee, yet her campaign has been attacking Obama like she was the Republican nominee. John McCain and the GOP has been smiling ever since he clinched the nominee, they don’t even have to spend money damaging Obama, Clinton is doing the work for her. If she really cared about the citizens of the United States she would be a team player and drop out immediately.

The Obama campaign fears that since his lost in Pennsylvania that he is being portrayed as out-of-touch with blue-collars voters. In an article today on the New York Times website reports that Obama is switching up his usual town-hall meetings for larger stadium rallies to encourage bigger turnouts and provide him with a victory in Indiana, a victory, that would hopefully wrap up the Democratic race.

CNN reports Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton and served as ambassador to Chile during the Clinton administration has withdrawn his support for Hillary in that for Obama. CNN quoted Gabriel “…I am first of all a Democrat”, declaring that the long drawn on race has hurt the party, rather than strengthen the nominees as say have stated. This definitely takes a blow to Hillary’s momentum she acquired from the big win in Pennsylvania.

The Obama campaign was unable to end the race yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary, losing to Hillary Clinton by 9%. The New York Times reports that this loss shows the split among voters, Obama not receiving much help from working-class and whites. But even the Clinton campaign admitted that she desperately needs to win the next two primaries in Indiana and North Carolina (where Obama has a clear lead) to stay in the race, I wonder now that her victory proved to be by a larger margin than predicted if her campaign is kicking themselves in the butt for saying it.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama increase their attack ads in Pennsylvania, foreseeing the importance of these last 40 hours until the vote. Both candidates have spent big money so far on ads for the P.A. primary. Obama and Clinton have crisscrossed through Pennsylvania the past days persuading the citizens for their vote. CNN reports that Obama has successfully cut into Clinton’s 20 point lead to as little a single digits, see the article here.

I was one of the many viewers that watched Michelle Obama on the Colbert Report last night. I found her intriguing. Steven joked about a few of the issues that Barack has been dealing with lately; the “bitter” remarks, about being an elitist (while growing up on the south side of Chicago). She spoked firmly about her views on Barack and she believes the race will end before the convention (let’s all pray for that). Steven even sang to her, listen here. Perhaps Mrs. Obama’s appearance will give will give Obama the famed “Colbert bump” in next Tuesday’s primary.

I think I speak for everyone when I say how stupid this “bitter” story is. But, I guess I shouldn’t be surprise that this story is a hot topic in the mainstream news. Obama spoked about the attitudes of small town voters and the Clinton campaign jumped on it, stating his remarks were “elitist and divisive”, as the New York Times reports it. Yeah, the Obama’s earned $900,000 while the Clinton’s racked in over $102 million, but that doesn’t yield any evidence of being an elitist.

Yahoo reported a story today stating Barack Obama has gained ground among the superdelegates, a category that was Hillary’s last hope of winning the nomination. Obama is ahead in the delegate race and is outearning Hillary by enormous amounts, cutting her lead into her lead with the superdelegates would be the final blow to her campaign, ultimately ending it. Clinton had a strong lead with the superdelegates early on in the race but that has now dwindled since Barack’s strong victories.