Obama raised 32 million dollars in the last quarter--10 million more than Hillary raised.

Its a money race at this point and Obama is clearly the front-runner. He killed everybody (Romney is expected to have rough parity with Hillary Clinton...). John Edwards needs Ann Coulter to talk about him more--9 million.

The money race simply reflects the political realities in the country--the far left is a political dynamo and Hillary is not their girl. The magnitude of John Edwards failure is enormous--he's been working for years to ingratiate himself with the far left but simply had no answer for Barry's star power-he's black, he's clean, he's a money-raising machine.

On the Republican side--not nearly the kind of polarized situation we see on the left--everybody supports the war on terror and there are still a lot of good choices. I think there is still a lot of money on the fence at this point, and there is certainly no grassroots candidate pulling in the internet bucks. Romney is just better at fund-raising, but it will take a narrowing of the field to see big dollars being committed to one candidate or another.

For the Democrats this quarter? More of the same. Barry will increase his lead and Bill will have to work harder than ever. Some of the dwarves may drop out of the race by October, but they'll stick it out as long as they can afford it.

For Republicans, things get much more interesting--McCain drops out, Fred comes in and a few of the alsorans take their coats and hats and go home. Romney maintains his lead because its structural at this point, but Fred Thompson will have something to prove--he will have to at least achieve parity with Romney to be in the catbird seat.