One of the great ironies of this week’s primaries, which brought a level of democracy to the Democratic nominating process unlike anything we have ever seen before, is that the result may have been to put the choice into the hands of party hacks. In this week’s dead-tree TIME (timenotdotcom), my story looks at the road ahead, and …

That Mark Halperin has good instincts — or good sources. Or both.This morning, he floated the idea that the Clintons might have reached the point of having to begin financing her campaign themselves. This afternoon, spokesman Howard Wolfson confirms it:

“Late last month, Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million. The loan

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Clinton campaign confirms that she’s given her campaign a loan of $5m. Not Romney money, but, still, money:

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Democrats looking for some cold comfort this unseasonably warm day might consider visiting the blogs that are hospices for sufferers of McCain Derangement Syndrome: Hugh Hewitt, The Corner and Riehl World View. See! An argument that Romney could broker a veep position! Marvel! At electoral math that proves McCain is not the legitimate …

Words you need to be familiar with to understand the post-Super Tuesday landscape.

I’m up in NYC, where we are struggling to get dead-tree TIME out the door. As is so often the case, our own numbers wizard Jackson Dykman has come up with the most fascinating bit of data within all these mountains of numbers coming out of Super Tuesday:

TOTAL VOTES CAST

Clinton: 50.2% (7,347,971)

Obama: 49.8% …

In an airport hanger in Phoenix just now, I asked Senator McCain whether he thought Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity could harm his chances in November if they keep up their anti-McCain crusade beyond the point that he secures the GOP nomination. “I don’t know the answer to that,” Mccain said. “I hope at some point we can just calm down a …

As our colleague Daniel Eisenberg noted, the new line is, “On second thought, we have decided that Missouri is not really that important a toss up state.”

(The original Hillary email was sent “Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:41 PM.”)

From: Obama Press Shop

Sent: Wed 2/6/2008 12:44 AM

Subject: a press release the clinton campaign wishes it

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I leave you in the capable hands of the rest of the Swampizens. For now:

• “I know many of you labor hard to believe that there’s such a thing as an unbiased journalist (especially when said journalist mostly agrees with you)…Mine happens to be — are you sitting down for this — Republican… At any rate, I’m pretty sure that my …

Conventional wisdom — and, who knows, maybe it’s the truth — has it that a close night tonight for McCain will be due to talk radio. Fine. But does a not-as-good-as-it-should-be* result for McCain necessarily bode well for Mitt Romney? I couldn’t help but notice the way the nets have been slugging the story:

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