The Morning Report

Clinton signals she may take her fight to Denver. Sen. Clinton trails Sen. Obama by nearly 200 delegates, more than 550,000 popular votes and 16 contests with just Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota left on the calendar. To a mere mortal, Sen. Clinton's uphill climb would seem impossible (because it is). But, as the media constantly reminds us, she's a Clinton (whatever that means). As such, Clinton sent out new signals yesterday that she may take her fight for the nomination all the way to Denver (leaving no Democrat alive).

Thank you, Jonathan Alter. I was beginning to think I was the only one who noticed that Sen. Clinton's wholly ficticious claim to the popular vote has thus far gone unchallenged. This morning, Mr. Alter took a brief reprieve from his usual, more substantive analysis to give the cable news networks and many in the print media a needed refresher on the finer points of counting. Mr. Alter also offered some advice to the Obama campaign; advice they and all sensible Democrats should heed. "If the Obama people have any sense, they will demand in their negotiations with the Clintonites that Hillary cease and desist in her specious claim to have won the most popular votes," he writes.

Conan on the Native American Vote. "This week, Barack Obama, true story, campaigned on an Indian reservation and the tribal chief adopted him . . . Yeah, the Indians actually prefer Obama to John McCain, because they still remember when McCain took their land."