Next up for the Democrats is the Wisconsin primary and the Hawaii caucuses, both to be held tomorrow. Hawaii's caucus will award 20 delegates based on a Presidential straw poll held during the caucus, which should start at 7 PM Hawaiian time (Midnight here in the East), so we won't know what the results are until late. Most observers say Obama has a lock on that one. Not so in Wisconsin, which holds a primary to award 74 delegates. The latest polls of Wisconsin show Obama with a very narrow lead. If Hillary can pull off an upset, that may start to change the dynamics of the race.

One writer who knows the Clintons well (and dreads them) says we should not write them off, as they have been known for facing fourth and long time and time again, and converting every time.

In other news, Kosovo has declared its independence, a move that is raising tensions with Serbia and her historic ally, Russia.

Bob Novak writes that the reason Democrats failed to renew our government's expanded surveillance rights concerning potential terrorists was not out of some principled opposition to such an expansion of government power but, rather, a desire to please one of their powerful constituencies, the trial lawyers.

Bill Kristol says Democrats would do well to read Kipling, a man who chronicled events from the perspective of the rulers who had the responsibility of making hard choices, rather than the opposition which merely objects and is never responsible for making such choices.

In what should be a blowout election for the Democrats, the specter of handing over the reins of government entirely to the Democrats during a time of war, when that party has not been held in high esteem by the public on issues of national security, may make the race much closer than it now appears.