I won't blab too much about this night. There are plenty of professional bloggers out there. I saw two of 5 pundits pulling out their own Apples on the way to a commercial breaks. Keith Olberman read from the Washington Post blog on the air.
But it seemed over for Hillary Clinton to me during her half hearted pre-victory (it was still unsure at the time) speech. Her voice was flat. And look at Bill! You can't see it here, but he looked deflated and bored. This looked like a campaign on its last tottering wheel.
Though Wolf Blitzer over at CNN prefaced his lead-ins with "CNN is the best political team ever!" kind of tags, I thought MSNBC was the place to go. There was simply more reporting. Tim Russert has talked to everyone and can even give us a "sense" of the voices of the people he talks to. Chuck Todd gave his red marker "back of the napkin" calculations, county by county, super delegate by super delegate. Olberman and Chris Matthews try to one up each other with obscure references and metaphors. That is balanced by the solid analysis of Todd and Russert.
Put them together, great night of political TV.
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