The Clinton Chinese fingertrap

The narrative of "Obama inevitable" is gaining some traction, and now Clinton finds herself in this weird space where any negativity from either side in the campaign pretty much gets blamed on her simply because she's "still in the race."

(I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying it's fair. It just is.)

Both sides are getting worse in their nastiness. Clinton is now directly raising the Wright issue herself as a desperate haymaker, is poisoning Florida and Michigan voters against the likely Dem nominee. A DNC official called Clinton Tonya Harding. It's getting nasty, so I'm skipping out for now.

I just wanted to make the subjective observation that, in the wake of that Politico piece, it does feel a bit like the primary ground has shifted.

(Even Sen. Maria Cantwell is now saying pledged delegates rule.
As I wrote last night, that's the "safe" superdelegate position.)