Below The Beltway

Hillary Clinton apparently has some pretty big bills to pay:
With her campaign now officially suspended, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is confronting still another challenge: whittling down what is believed to be the largest presidential campaign debt in history.
Besides the $11.4 million of her own money that Mrs. Clinton lent her campaign, she had about $9.5 […]

There’s no way that he’ll ever be able to match fundraising numbers like these:
Leading Democratic fundraisers predict that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will raise hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few months if he opts out of public financing and begins raising money for the general election.
Specifically, they say Obama could raise $100 […]

Wonder what happened when Hillary and Barack met at Diane Feinstein’s house in D.C ?
Well, watch for yourself.

Contrary to what is quickly becoming the conventional wisdom, it appears that Hillary Clinton actually underperformed among women during the Democratic primaries:
One of the Democratic campaign’s great misperceptions has been that Clinton held an overwhelming advantage among women voters. But that isn’t the case. As expected, Clinton captured the over-65 vote, and Obama won over […]

Regardless of whether or not Barack Obama does make the mistake of choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate, his campaign will still have to figure out what to do with Bill Clinton for the next five months.
There was an excellent discussion of why this is a problem on Meet The Press yesterday:

H/T: Donklephant and […]

Five months, compressed into eight minutes:

The New York Times assembled a group of thirteen corners political pundits in an effort to determine what went wrong with Hillary Clinton’s once-inevitable campaign for the White House.
Of particular interest is the confusing and disjointed contribution from former Clinton campaign guru Mark Penn, who claims it was lack of money, or at least that’s […]

Comes from Andrew Sullivan:
I think history will show that she didn’t quite have the talent to do it on her own steam, but that she made it much easier for another woman to become president one day. Her two biggest problems: She first married a man who was her political superior and was then defeated […]

And of course, it meant she had center stage coverage from the entire media, which apparently had nothing better to do on a Saturday:
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as […]

Robert Reich, who served as Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton but has become a critic of the Hillary Clinton campaign, is the latest to lay out the case why the Senator from New York does not belong beside Barack Obama on the ticket in November:
I have known and admired the Clintons for decades and I […]