Hillary Clinton still has an uphill climb to the nomination, but three sets of figures buried in the post-Texas, post-Ohio analyses should give Barack Obama pause.
The first is the women's vote. In Ohio, the female-male voting proportion was 59-41, which both tells you something about who votes and also how much Hillary is pulling women to the polls. Among white women voters in Ohio, Hillary got 67 percent of their vote. And she is stoking their enthusiasm by being feisty during tough economic times, while husbands take out their troubles at the corner pub.
Local baseball patrons and mavens are inclined to try to keep one eye on the calendar this time of year and another on the daily box scores from Seattle Mariners Cactus League games in Arizona. Such optical acrobatics reveal, of course, that the March 31 home opener is approaching, with hopeful fans imagining the first playoff season since the 116-win campaign of 2001.
Seattle and Washington politics have turned into routine re-elections of complacent incumbents. Meanwhile, the most exciting movement in the land is the rise of independents. Here's how to make them the cure for our local malaise.
It began with a conversation last summer between former Sen. Slade Gorton and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. What emerges is a story of civic altruism and shrewd politics. Even so, after all the delays, the local team is playing a very weak hand.
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