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Good morning Geeks heres what’s happening.

- The Obama campaign is sharpening its attacks against Clinton and top on the table is the demand for Clinton to release her tax records. The Clinton campaign is dismissing the demand but there is an ironic little twist. Back in 2000 during Hillary’s run for the Senate she made an issue over the same thing demanding her opponent Rick Lazio release his and charging that his failure to do so was a sign he was hiding something. So heavy was the demand that aide Howard Wolfson would dress up as Uncle Sam to protest rallies.

- Yesterday President Bush endorsed Senator John McCain and everyone is asking will it help or hurt? A new ad linking Bush & McCain is debuting to try and frame the endorsement in a very negative way.

- Hillary’s Math Problem?, Clinton had big wins this week but as Obama aide David Plouffe notes “Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday’s elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183.” Even if Clinton wins every primary from this point on and takes them with big margins she won’t have enough delegates to secure the nomination. Obama won’t be able to clinch the nomination with pledged delegates either but the most likely scenario is that Obama will go into the nomination with more pledged than Clinton.

The new move by Obama and the media is to say that pledged delegates are the deciding factor and because Clinton cannot win the majority, she should drop out.

- Yesterday Clinton hinted the nomination fight may be leading to a joint ‘dream ticket’ and Obama said that kind of talk was premature.

- What is going to happen with Florida and Michigan? No one knows but watch today as everyone begins a gigantic speculation explosion that will consume and possibly destroy us all. Seriously, it is coming… I promise… really.

- Clinton has magically regained her lead in Gallup tracking polls. Is it a comeback or are these polls just not believable? I go for the latter but we will see.

- How Health Care played in this weeks primaries.

- Stories of internal struggles in the Clinton camp, read everyone hates Mark Penn, are swirling as they have been for, well, months now.

With a flurry of phone calls and e-mail messages that began before polls closed, campaign officials made clear to friends, colleagues and reporters that they did not view the wins as validation for the candidate’s chief strategist. “A lot of people would still like to see him go,” a senior adviser said.

The depth of hostility toward Penn even in a time of triumph illustrates the combustible environment within the Clinton campaign, an operation where internal strife and warring camps have undercut a candidate once seemingly destined for the Democratic nomination.

- The Limbaugh effect?

- Rural Ohio is no friend to Democrats.

Where Are They?
McCain – Florida and Georgia

Clinton & Obama, no planned events