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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Is it fair for anyone to tell the candidate who won California, New York, Texas and Ohio to step aside for the good of the party? Hillary Clinton had a great night yesterday, ending Barack Obama's winning streak and giving her campaign new life, the Los Angeles Times reports, but Obama's approximately 100-point delegate lead persists. Figuring out the fair thing to do is what this so difficult.

He's in and he's in to win: Tom McClintock, the grounchy-in-your-face conservative state senator of Thousand Oaks is running for Congress—418 miles away from his home (see map above), the Sacramento Bee reports. McClintock's bid for the Fourth Congressional District ended the campaign of Rico Oller, and Democrat Charlie Brown quipped that he would raise $100 for every mile between the 4th and Thousand Oaks.

Oddly enough, McClintock seems to be "fleeing" his hometown just as Democrats gained a registration edge in Ventura County for the first time since Ronald Reagan's presidency, a point not lost on Democratic state chair Art Torres, the Ventura County Star reports. This reflects trends throughout the state as red specks become purple.

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