4:39 p.m.--John King with a map of Ohio, and Wolf Blitzer-- outlining areas of the state where each Dem candidate might hope to do well, heavy emphasis on ethnicity and socioeconomic background to exclusion all else, i.e. divisions. Somewhat disheartening, but that's television for you. On election days, at least.
 Wolf Blitzer at least does a cheerier bit: "Obama for Obama," meaning the city of Obama, Japan takes an interest in the candidate of same name. The city says nice things, too.

5:00, and it's Hardball, w/ Chris Matthews. Howard Dean, Dem chair, comes on for interview: yes, he met with Pelosi and Reid. no, it was not to settle the Democratic race. Matthews returns to the will-Clinton-exit question, asks, "up to her?"--Dean answers, No, actually I think it's up to the voters. Dean does a good job bringing up several issues re John McCain that television has yet to cover. And mostly, yet even to mention.

Matthews then has Chuck Todd on, who discusses the four states starting w/ Vermont, where the polls close at 7:00. Acc to Todd, the number you want to keep your eye on is "64%." If Obama--favored in Vermont--fails to carry Vermont by 64% or more, then he will not get a 10-5 split in the delegates from Vermont.   [ ? ]

At a little before 6:00, I tear myself away from this kind of instruction to be interviewed myself, on the Louie Free radio show--in Ohio. I have to be signed off, though. Louie's next call-in guest is scheduled to be Bill Clinton. Louie has an interesting question for me: why wd the Republicans want to run against Clinton--as he puts it, what is not known about her already? -- Two answers: first, it's the already known that might well be important--and the rightwing noise machine and the neocons have been awfully nice about NOT mentioning the known, in re the Clintons, for the past year or so.

Second, there are a few areas unknown: those unreleased IRS tax returns. How in detail both Clintons have become multimillionaires since leaving the White House broke. And the documents from that Hillary Clinton health care task force. Both those, and the rest of the docs from VP Cheney's energy task force, need to be released to the public.