So, what now for Senator Clinton?

In the wake of her most recent lack of progress cutting into the Obama lead this past Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton now begins the final swan song tour that includes primaries in West Virginia and Kentucky which she will win.

She cannot win the nomination now, nor will she see the super delegates flock her way. For all intents and purposes, she will do what her husband did, which is decide what her legacy and her future will be from now until June 3rd when the final primary will be held.

My bet is that she will become a uniter, not a divider; she will talk more about the issues, especially healthcare, she wants to leverage into the party platform come August. Little negative will be said about Senator Obama, so as not to detract from the presumptive nominee. She will play cat and mouse with the Vice Presidential talk that is certain to run rampant as a super ticket is considered. Senator Clinton will come across as more human than ever before, so as to gain the mantle of Grand Dame of the Party, and return to the Senate in a position to gain even more power there. Finally, she will choose her moment to exit from the race as she should, but look for her to do it after a win either in West Virginia or Kentucky.

She will then go to work for the Democratic Party which will have defeated the Clinton Party for the nomination, and will help to get its nominee ushered into the White House come November 5th. For a family which has only known winning, and has forged its own niche for 16 years in presidential politics, it is a humbling moment that Democrats hope will be tenderly handled with care and grace. I’m Gary Sutton.

Tuesday's Tech Tip: Cleaning your notifications area

We spent the last two weeks trying to clean up your Windows desktops. We started by pinning stuff to your Start menu and then worked on your Quick Launch toolbar. This week we'll spend some time on your Windows notifications area.





See where the arrow points in the above image? You can click the image to enlarge it. That's the Windows notifications area. Most people have them littered, littered, sir, with junk they don't need. You only want to see what you need.

If you right-click on a blank spot on your bar (for example to the right of Adobe Photoshop), you can click on Properties in the context-sensitive menu that pops up.

Make sure the box next to "Hide inactive icons" is checked. Then click on "Customize..." and you'll see a complete list of icons hiding in your notifications area.

Each icon has a behavior (like "always hide this icon"), so feel free to hide whatever you don't need to see.

Lots of possibilities in today's primaries?

To use some tennis lingo, we are at match point again in the Democratic Primary process, at least according to the all-knowing prognosticators out there.

The popular thought is that Senator Clinton must snatch the primary from next-door-neighbor-favorite-son Barack Obama to continue in the race, and at the same time, close to about 5-6 points in North Carolina where she was down 20 at one time. The predictors seem to be babbling that the pressure is on her because she needs to record big wins to catch up in the numbers, therefore, her back is against the wall.

If that's so, it seems to me that she has the company of one Senator Barack Obama who can’t say he’s gotten his momentum back with that big weekend victory in the Guam Caucuses where about 4,000 people voted. Uh-Uh. No, Barack Obama has won every border state to Illinois so far and much of Indiana is located in the Chicago Media Market. If he can’t win there, even though there are Hillary enclaves located in the northern part of state, further doubt about will explode around the country as to whether he is their guy.

The elected numbers don’t matter anymore for Hillary because she won’t overtake Obama. What does matter is the tally of reasons called primary victories no matter how small that give super-delegates reason to pause on their choice or change before or at the Convention in August. In addition, it also makes dealing with the Florida and Michigan rules mess more palpable if she comes steamrolling into the convention close enough where it becomes a real question.

Either way you look at it, both need Indiana today to either keep the door open to victory for Clinton or slam it in her face if you are Obama. We’ll see at the end of this day who comes knocking. I’m Gary Sutton.

Main Street of America: 5/6/08

There's lots on the table today, not the least of which are the Indiana and North Carolina primary elections. Will the Democratic race end today, or will it go to the convention in Denver for a nasty fight? Would Hillary and Barack work together in any order on a Democratic presidential ticket?

There were lots of arrests of kids at a party who were drinking over the weekend -- a lot of them well-known athletes in the area. Why is drinking so important at a party, and what about all of these contracts students sign with the school about "no alcohol parties" or "no drinking" with their coaches and teachers?

More importantly, where were the parents at a house where a booze party was taking place? Is this much ado about nothing and we sweep it under the rug, or is it a serious situation that needs our attention?

Today, like everyday, your comments are welcome here and on the show!

Congressman Platts in today

Okay, folks, wanna gripe, groan, compliment or just plain get something off you chest about the Federal Government?

Your opportunity has arrived today. Congressman Todd Platts is in with Gary this morning -- and in case you can't call, please feel free to leave you questions here on the blog so we can get them on during the broadcast.

Sen. Clinton and Bill O'Reilly

Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Fox's Bill O'Reilly "takes one for the team" and interviews Hillary Clinton. Views from many sides of the political aisles here in an interesting discussion.

It's personal, it's divisive at times, and most of all, it's entertaining and informative. Click on these and see just what went down.

Indecision 2008: Cheesesteaks

Insightful political analysis of the difficult Pat's versus Geno's cheesesteak issue:



Me? I'm throwing my support behind Gary Sutton Show guest Joe Vento and his shop Geno's Steaks.