I’ve been reading the litany of “why I’m for Obama” or “why I’m for Clinton” posts on HuffPo for weeks now, and this one really resonated for me. So it was funny to find out it was written by the actor who played/plays Charlotte’s hubby on the Sex and the City series/movie.

In I Can’t Believe I’m Standing Up for Obama… But I Am, Evan Handler writes:

I am not a devotee or disciple. I am a skeptic, and remain somewhat skeptical. Still, over the past few weeks I have become convinced that Barack Obama is the better choice for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. And, well… God help us all if that’s not enough to make him president.

My conclusion is based on several components, but coheres around one theme. Besides what I have experienced as his superior demonstrations of strength, composure, restraint, and reasoning during their last two one-on-one debates, Senator Obama has structured his campaign around what I feel is an irrefutable truth: the United States government will never again function efficiently unless United States citizens force it to do so. His insistence that the U.S. government must serve its citizenry, and his acknowledgment that it will do so only if the citizenry once again holds its government accountable is a statement so simplistic that it is, for some, dismissible. It also happens to be a truism so profound that it might, I have come to hope, be unstoppable.

There’s a lot more I agree with (including the discussion on their relative policy positions), but this is the kernel of it for me … and when you couple this with Obama’s 50-state strategy, it tips the balance for me.

That said, I was really surprised to hear this morning that 11 out of 12 of Chris Matthews’ regulars think that Hillary will drop out if she doesn’t win both TX and OH on Tuesday. Yes, she will have an unsurmountable delegate shortage, but me, I think it will be good to let PA weigh in (assuming that Hillary goes the Huckabee route … if she goes incredibly negative, then that would be really bad).

This contest is bringing a lot of new voters to the race (as the numbers in Texas, in particular,
illustrate). And while Texas may not go blue in the presidential race in November, all those D voters can make a big difference in a whole lot of Congressional races this year.