Of course the big news today was the strong Obama victory in the South Carolina primary. A couple of things were consistently mentioned across shows. One was that Obama got more white votes than "expected." The other was that Bill Clinton had hurt Hillary by his over aggressive campaigning. Apparently the "mainstream" media is convinced that the Clinton strategy is to "make Obama the black candidate" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were. That way, it would drive a wedge between white voters and Obama, especially in the south. That's how the strategy goes, I guess, according to the talking heads.

And, amazingly enough, after the strategy failed miserably, they accused Bill of doing it again this morning when he told a reporter on camera, after being asked about Hillary's drubbing, that "Jesse Jackson had won the South Carolina primary" twice. This was clearly an attempt to downplay the results as just a "race based" outcome.

So now we come to "super dooper Tuesday." Could it really be that Hillary's strategy is to try and garner all the white votes, with a few of the minority female votes, hoping to eke out victories in a few white majority northern or eastern states? That would be a cynical strategy, and one likely to fail. But Hillary is an intelligent woman, and let's hope that she doesn't get that desperate. But the old time political hacks around her, I'm afraid, whose reputations as political geniuses are going to be damaged by her fall from political grace, are that desperate.

But let's hope that the message sent yesterday was that people are truly tired of that kind of politics. The problem that Hillary faces, and she is trying to overcome with all kinds of political gimmickry, including hard nosed poison politics is that Obama is simply more charismatic than she is. She might be, and probably is, every bit as intelligent as Obama. She might be and probably is, as experienced or even more in some ways than Obama - after all she is older than he is, and she's lived longer. But, unfortunately for Hillary, Obama is just better to listen to speaking than she is. He's warm, hopeful, engaging. She is much colder, more formal, more structured. People are more in the mood for the former and not the latter, and there's little the Clinton camp can do to change that, except to try to find ways to tear him down. The problem is that they have to do so that no one notices they are doing it, because if they think that's what is going on, they're going to get mad at Hillary for tearing down their warm, hopeful, engaging leader.

Unfortunately for Hillary, her team did not pull of tearing down Obama with no one noticing. Everyone noticed. I noticed, the press noticed, and the voters noticed. So now Hillary has to try another strategy, but there aren't too many good alternatives left. I don't blame her for going through super dooper Tuesday, but if she loses a majority of the vote on super dooper Tuesday, she needs to bow out gracefully for the sake of the party.