I had no intention of being up this late, but I simply can't go to sleep yet without having something concrete in my hands over the Indiana primary. There's 95% of the vote counted, mostly a single county remaining, and less than 17,000 votes separating them.

But as many, many people in the media are saying, this primary is essentially over. Most people have known for at least a couple of months now that the math couldn't work for Hillary Clinton, and now the math is something that she absolutely has to avoid. Not even if Michigan and Florida are counted at the convention can she pull off the nomination without absolute nuclear war within the Democratic party.

That's not going to happen, though. There is a legacy left for her here, and she doesn't want that legacy to be causing the loss of the general election after the disaster of the Bush presidency.

The most important observation I can make tonight, though, really has nothing to do with the actual vote count and how it ends up come sunrise. The most important thing that has come out tonight is that the media has shifted again, and they're openly saying that Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee, and Hillary Clinton is done, whether she knows it or not.

It may not be right, and it's definitely not the way it should work. But if that's the message being printed in the morning papers and the message that hits talk radio, the blogs, and every other news outlet in the nation, then no matter what Hillary Clinton says or does, this race is over.

I honestly didn't think it would happen so soon, but I'm glad it did.