“After all, no human being has ever quite gotten the kind of worshipful press he has received in the past three weeks.”

Maybe Hillary Clinton in the past one week. Magazines have been putting a 60-year-old woman on their covers accompanied by the quote: “I found my voice.” Today’s results feel like part of this apologetic burst of sympathy. That the voice she found was a sob has to count against her in the long run.

Also, we knew that she’d secured the Hispanic vote. The black vote was hers to lose, and she lost it. I think that’s a pretty big deal. That, and the fact that the polls did predict something accurately.

And I have a question: if her win was a big deal, to what extent will it be dampened by an Obama win in South Carolina? It does feel kind of impossible to say anything predictive if the playing field is repeatedly flattened.