Hillary will stay in

Mark Halperin is right. Hillary is not going to bow out anytime soon. The reasons are overwhelming:

1. She thinks she would be a better president than Obama. 2. She thinks she would be a stronger candidate against McCain than Obama. 3. She feels an obligation to her supporters to keep fighting. 4. She thinks she can win Pennsylvania. 5. She thinks she is finally gaining traction on the “national security experience” argument. 6. She thinks the one-on-one debate has only just begun, along with the heightened scrutiny of Obama. 7. She is finally raising enough money to fight the fight with paid TV ads. 8. She knows the Rezko trial is getting started. 9. She knows Obama is still well short of winning a majority of the delegates. 10. Clintons don’t quit–and she really, really, really wants to win.

Here's Robert Novak on the Rezko issue:

Obama bought a mock Georgian mansion on Chicago's south side on June 15, 2005, the same day Rezko's wife bought a plot next door from the same seller. Obama then purchased from Rezko another parcel at above-market value. Federal prosecutors recently revealed that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi billionaire who lives in London, wired $3.5 million to the financially strapped Rezko in Chicago less than a month before the Obama-Rezko purchases. James Bone, investigative reporter for the Times of London, wrote last Tuesday that "the money transfer raises the question of whether funds" from Auchi "helped" Obama buy his house.

This summary is short and to the point. Why can't the NYTimes write this way? Their article Sunday was a meandering mess compared with the Prince of Darkness.

Rush Limbaugh is encouraging his listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton. I personally know people who are planning on doing just this for reasons of sabotage.

I had a campaigner for Obama come back two days ago, and Obama signs are peppered all around my home town. The reason is that there's an Obama office open in my town. (On a sidenote, the campaigner said he had seen a lot of people in his door-to-door work who really hated McCain, even though they were Republican. The Politico has a piece on McCain's rough start here.)