Is Hillary Done?

The Boston Globe: "Senator Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the North Carolina primary yesterday, righting his presidential bid after the rockiest stretch of his campaign, while Senator Hillary Clinton eked out a narrow win in Indiana to keep her campaign alive.

"Obama moved closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, adding to his increasingly strong advantage in pledged delegates and in the overall popular vote with just six contests remaining over the next month - and none likely to radically reshape the race."

Salon's Walter Shapiro goes for the dramatic metaphor:

"Hillary Clinton is one day and two important primaries closer to oblivion . . . Not only is Hillary clinging to the hands of a clock in an old-time Harold Lloyd silent movie, but the clock face has begun to wobble."

Slate's John Dickerson turns some of Hillary's rhetoric against her:

"When Hillary Clinton questioned Gen. David Petraeus last September, she famously said that to believe his description of progress in Iraq required 'a willing suspension of disbelief.' After the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, the same may now be true about her case for winning the Democratic nomination. It's not that she can't win, but with only 217 delegates up for grabs in the six remaining contests, the scenario for victory has become more fantastical, narrow, and painful."

Roger Simon is practically playing taps:

"Hillary Clinton's strategy for winning the Democratic nomination is now a fond wish wrapped in a desperate hope.

"Her fond wish is to seat the pledged delegates from the rogue states of Michigan and Florida in a way that is advantageous her and damaging to Barack Obama. Her desperate hope is then to persuade the superdelegates to overturn the will of the pledged delegates and make her the Democratic nominee. To achieve this, she needs momentum, spin and fear."

National Review's Jim Geraghty sees a stampede:

"The closeted and not-so-closeted Obama fans in the mainstream media are tired of covering a negative Democrat-against-Democrat race. They've been working more or less nonstop since January. They're ready to declare the race over and move on to their first love, which is trashing Republicans. Thus, if Obama wins North Carolina by any sort of margin (a very safe bet), they're going to tout that as the decisive decision in this primary and do everything possible to drive Hillary Clinton out of the race."

Andrew Sullivan is excited about Obama: