A little delayed here, but Obama is on his way to winning Oregon handily, as expected. He's leading 58-42 with 55 percent of the votes counted. If that margin holds, it'll translate into a popular vote margin of around 140,000.
It's not nearly as impressive as Clinton's win in Kentucky, however. With all the votes counted, she has a margin of 65-30, and a popular vote margin of 250,000. That's bigger than expected, and it will turn the popular vote into a competitive battle down the stretch -- with Clinton reasonably hoping to overtake him even without Michigan and Florida, or with only one of them, and then hoping to use that to build a stronger case for the superdelegates.
As you watch the race unfold, you sometimes feel like everyone -- the media, the talking heads, the superdelegates, the party leaders, even the Obama people -- thinks it's over and the Clintons are just going through the motions. Everyone, that is, except for the Clintons, who are building a coalition of angry women and white people, and who have every intention still of seizing the nomination.
It may be over, but it doesn't feel resolved.