Split Decision

Dragged myself out of bed at 5:30 a.m. and managed a personal best: 1:40:23 for a 13.1 miles, the length of a half marathon. Took the dog with me and now she's limping. I feel awful. I shouldn't take her any longer than an hour no matter how much she wants to go on. Managed to put the California primary behind me.

Update: Well, that didn't last long. Couldn't help myself and started reading at least a dozen blogs and a handful of news sites on last nights' Super Fat Tuesday. This race for delegates is starting to feel like the BCS. Obama's campaigned projected topping Clinton by 13 delegates, 847 to 834. Clinton scored her advantage in delegates 845 to 765. NBC News figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton. ABC News currently has Clinton at 872 to Obama's 793. Clinton won the popular vote by about 50.2%-49.8%, though Obama won the popular vote in 13 Super Tuesday states while Clinton won it in eight plus American Samoa. He also beat her three to one in fundraising: $32 million to her $13.5 million in January. The numbers are all over the map and the marathon continues over the next few weeks. Louisiana, Nebraska, Maine, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, D.C., Hawaii, Wisconsin look generally promising for Obama. The big states that come after that (Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, Kentucky) look a lot friendlier to Hillary. Meanwhile, the campaigns -- and my head -- spin like crazy. God, please let this get people excited and positive about the political process, and not angry about divisions by race and gender. I want a good, clean contest to keep the momentum going through the general election for the maximum electoral punishment for supporters of this bank-breaking, prisoner-tortouring, Constitution-defying, morally bankrupt administration.

Whew. Glad to get that off my chest. Back to work.