I am hoping that if the Mississippi results are anything similar to the Wyoming results, something -- maybe not decisive but nudging things along a little further -- will happen later this week. Hoping. The only thing after that might be the PA polls. IF they should start looking consistently bad .... don't know if they will but if they should. I keep remembering that Lyndon Johnson got out of the 1968 race when he realized that he was going to lose _____ (some state, I forget which one, that he had been supposed to win). He got out *before* that primary so as to avoid the humiliation.

The two who could say it to her most effectively are Bill and Ed Rendell ... and they were essentially doing that before TX/OH: "you have to win both." If *they* realized that she was going to go down to a humiliating defeat in PA, she would have to listen. The problem with Gore, Richardson, Edwards or anyone along that line is that she may well see them as 'the enemy' and consider their wise counsel to be a challenge that she must, by damn!, meet. But if there is good reason for Bill and Ed Rendell to tell her it's over. They, too, are Democrats and despite loyalty to her should have some care for the party and November.