McCain Nears Goal, Obama on a Roll

John McCain won in Wisconsin and Washington state, pushing his delegate totals close to the number needed to secure the nomination. If you include Romney's delegates, who he has asked to support McCain, he is over the top.

However, if you want an indication of how the "Republican base" is still feeling about McCain, just look at the results from Washington. Romney, despite having pulled himself out of the race, nearly beat Huckabee for second place there, and if you combine the totals of the two, they had nearly as many votes as McCain did. McCain clearly has a lot of work to do.

Obama continues his roll. Technically Hillary can win in Texas and Ohio and still win the thing, but my sense of it is she is sliding and I suspect will lose one or even both of those, and the thing will swing to Obama.

We should have a pretty fair sense in the next week or two if I'm right here, then it will be "game on" between McCain and Obama.