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It's happy times in Hillaryland as she proved she could thump Obama in West Virginia. Or as Maureen Dowd put it today in the NY Times, it was a "Rasberry for Barry" as Clinton showed the fine points of political strip-mining. Dowd wrote: "Mining that antipathy, the New York senator has been working hard to get the hard-working white voters of hardscrabble Appalachia so she can show that a black man can’t yet be elected president."
In her victory speech, Clinton spoke the dwindling SuperD block. "The bottom line is this," she said. "The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states." But Obama had moved on to Missouri where he was in a geneal election mode and talking about creating a new Democratic majority.

Which may or not include that much-fussed over demographic of hard working, non-college educated older woman and men white voters which gravitate to Hillary. Never in the annals of primary history has so much mental energy been expended to figure out what's happened to this subset of white folks. Joan Walsh in Salon jumps on the case: "Now the question becomes whether and how he (Obama) can win over her white working-class supporters. It's been dispiriting to visit some lefty blogs, and as well as some Salon letters threads, and read the contempt and, well, elitism expressed by some (not most) Obama supporters." Then again, one could wonder the worth of reading too much into a state like West Virginia in which remarkable numbers of voters believed (at least in exit polls) that Obama was a Muslim and that he shared Rev. Jeremiah Wright's views. Sometimes the skepticism about the ability to move certain voting blocs is warranted.

Clinton gained as many as 10 delegates last night. The math hasn't changed. Thankfully, there are only five contests to go.

SuperD Shuffle
No surprise that the Obama campaign rolled out a couple of SuperD announcements early today to add 1.5 SuperD's to his total, including Indiana Congressman Pete Visclosky Democrats Abroad Chair Christine Schon Marques (who has a 1/2 SuperD vote). I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least five to six more today.
(UPDATE) Since early this morning Clinton has added one (Vicky Harwell of the Tennessee Federation of Democratic Women) and Obama has added one (Oklahoma state Sen. Mike Morgan). The Obama claim they are now some 134.5 delegates away from the nomination.