The Dish

The Obama trifecta and the Uno Triumph! It’s a big night chez Sully.

From Texas, where she didn’t even mention her landslide losses in the Potomac primaries:

When Clinton mentioned having differences with Obama over health care and the mortgage crisis, she was booed.

A sex worker joins the etymological debate.

Rudy Giuliani’s campaign manager praises the Clinton strategy.

Nagourney lays it on the line:

He now enjoys a big financial advantage. Her big lead in national polls is gone. By most counts, Mr. Obama can now claim more delegates pledged to him. He has won far more states than Mrs. Clinton, although she won some of the big prizes, like California and New Jersey.

She can’t win this on technicalities – without pitching the Democrats into a civil war. But does she even know how to concede?

But an airport hotel gives it a whole new depth.

Yeah: it’s a kind of hell. An airport hotel and I forgot my Ambien.

Here are Obama’s, Clinton’s, and McCain’s speeches.

I’m headed to Walla Walla in Washington state tonight – I’m stranded, once again, on the tarmac as I write. Another two hours delay – but I was able to catch the exit polls! Blogging will be spotty as the results come in, but I hope to post a full round-up once the final, actual – you know – results are here. Oh, yeah, and I’m headed from Walla Walla to LA for the Bill Maher show this Friday – the first back with writers. I’ll try not to look in actual physical pain as Jonah did last week.

My hometown – the ersatz colony that Americans still poignantly think of as part of their democracy – goes big for the Democratic insurgent. Money quote:

"I voted for the next president of the United States, Barack Obama," said Phil Andonian, a 31-year-old lawyer sporting a Barack Obama T-shirt underneath his winter coat, outside a polling station in the nation’s capital.

"The Clintons have shown themselves to be a political machine not much different than the Bush administration," Andonian said.