Lost momentarily in the excitement of the McCain-Romney battle was Hillary Clinton’s performance in Florida. Yes, she won the no-delegate race by a wide margin, but a couple of funny things happened along the way. First, exit polling shows that among voters who made up their minds in the last month, Barack Obama won 47 percent to 40 percent. In the last week, Obama prevailed 39-31. In the last three days, it was 46-38 in favor of Obama. (Hillary carried those who made their minds up on voting day and earlier than a month ago.) Obama will surely take comfort in knowing that despite his lack of campaigning in Florida, the South Carolina results and the Clintons’ graceless conduct are having a impact, and potentially a very significant one.

Second, the Clintons played gotcha with the rules, which after all are for the little people. She traveled to Florida, pledged to seat the delegates that the DNC had disallowed owing to the state’s decision to hold its primary too early, and generally stunned (why are they always stunned?) reporters by her bald-faced reversal on the matter. When her Cackle does not even persuade Keith Olbermann, it may be a sign the jig is up. In short, she did nothing to dissuade the growing impression that she and her husband are running a sneaky, conniving and increasingly unconvincing operation. Not bad for a night’s work.