First there was the 3am ad then there was the piling on about Rev. Wright. and now we can see the result of Clinton and her campaign "advisors".  Kos, Dailykos.com, writes:

Now let's look at how White Democratic voters see the two Democratic candidates:

             Obama  Clinton

Inspiring      80     65
Down-to-earth  78     63
Honest         79     66
Patriotic      78     90
Phony          16     30
Hard-to-like   13     43

Note the "phony" numbers, and that was before the Tuzla stuff exploded. This poll was finished last Saturday. So Clinton sort of walked into a trap, reinforcing a trait that people already harbored against her. I wouldn't have called her a "phony" a week ago, but now the evidence is mounting on that front. I suspect the next edition of this poll in a month will show a much larger spread on that question than 16-30.

That is, unless Clinton has a speech lined up to address those concerns.

If you want to see the details then check out the PEW polling here. 

DHinMI, Dailykos.com, writes:

Last night and this morning, DNC chair Howard Dean has been making the rounds declaring that he'd like to see the contest for the Democratic nomination end by July 1st:

Last night he gave an interview to the Associated Press:

``What I don't want to do is have the Democrats make a stupid mistake in April and then be sorry they said that in October and end up with some more right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court,'' he said....

What are chances of Clinton winning the nomination?  Even her closest advisors think it is at most a ten percent chance, and how would she go about it?

Johnation Chait, New Republic magazine, writes:

She needs to convince the remaining uncommitted superdelegates to split for her by about a 2-to-1 margin. The only way she can get a split like that is if she can persuasively argue that Obama is unelectable. And the only way she can do that is to make him unelectable. .. It's not true, but by the time the convention rolls around, it may well be.

DHinMI states:

Apparently I wasn't sufficiently explicit about the ramifications of Dean's declaration.  He is blocking Clinton's only remaining path to the nomination, which is to wait for Obama to self-destruct.

Is this the right thing to do?  I think that Clinton will utilize and reinforce the McCain talking points about Obama in order to have a pyrrhic victory.  There is no evidence that contradicts such a conclusion.

As other commentators have mentioned, it is time for Hillary supporters to save the candidate from herself and her advisors. As Reuters reporter James Whitesides writes:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Somebody forgot to tell Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential race is over and Barack Obama won.