by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

By any measure, Senator Hillary Clinton's victories last night were huge.

"Obamamentum" is history. The Teflon has been pierced, as the press and voters look beneath the veneer. And the Obama campaign's smug "it's over" trash talk of the last couple of weeks is history.

Press coverage will now focus on whether Obama can win, having failed to win a major state like California or a state that makes in November. Like Ohio. Or New Mexico. Or Tennessee.

Now it will be all about Pennsylvania and painful nitpicking about delegate counts, and what to do in the two huge states -- Michigan and Florida --  where Hillary won (sorta). The spin zone certainly will be a dangerous place to be today, as both sides jockey for the hearts and souls of Democratic voters and media attention.

Is this ongoing fight bad for Democrats and good for John McCain, who clinched the Republican nomination last night? Not necessarily.

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by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

The polls close in a half-hour.  Best results at the Secretary of State's website here.  For you delegate junkies out there (and I know you're out there), you can find the returns by Congressional district here.

I don't know if the early returns tell us a lot.  I think it's going to be a toss-up between Obama and Clinton, and the same with McCain and Romney.  If Romney loses here I expect him to drop out tomorrow.  For Obama, a win would be very significant for spin, but the delegate counts are where the action is on the Democratic side.  This race is going on, for a while, at least.