Blogs react to not-so-terminal Tuesday

Hillary Clinton got her victories in Ohio and the Texas primary, keeping her bid for the presidency alive. And unsurprisingly, bloggers were abuzz this morning.

“Delegates, schmelegates,” said Clinton supporter Taylor Marsh. “There’s a new comeback kid and her name is Hillary Clinton. Again.”

But Hanna Rosin of the XX Factor all but groaned when confronted with an extension of the primary campaign.

“My only thought this morning is that I really want it to be over,” she said. “I’ll vow to raise $5 million for Hillary if she’ll drop out.”

Andrew Sullivan, meanwhile, thought the extended primary season was bad news for the Democrats. “Never, ever under-estimate the ability of the Democratic party to screw it up. They should have won this election easily. Now, the odds clearly favor McCain. And if it’s him versus the Clintons, after all they have revealed about themselves in this primary season, many, many Independents will not be particularly torn.”

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo crunched the numbers, and saw Clinton getting only a modest gain in delegates. “Current estimates suggest the Texas caucus results will trim her net gain to somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 delegates.”

Dave Weigel of Reason’s Hit and Run found an unlikely source of support for Clinton in Texas and Ohio:

Ohio didn’t wind up being very close, but Clinton won the Texas primary by about 98,000 votes out of 2.8 million cast. If the exits are right, about 252,000 of those voters were Republicans, and about 618,000 were conservatives. Clinton truly might have won the Texas primary on the backs of Rush Limbaugh listeners.

Reading conservative blogger Hugh Hewitt, one could believe it. “If Hillary ekes out close wins, stays alive, gains the nomination and the White House,” Hewitt asked, “will Rush hold the Bible at her Inauguration?”