I'm naturally a little down from last night's PA loss.  Some small comfort: at least it wasn't exactly a double-digit deficit for Barack.  Clinton ended up winning Pennsylvania by 9.2%.

Other good news?  He improved his demographic margins among older and white voters across the board, compared to Ohio.  He Cold-Warred Hillary Clinton ala USA vs Soviet Union, spending her to death and bankrupting her campaign, all the while leaving himself with some $40 million+ to play with.  He is heading into North Carolina, apparently very friendly territory, as well as Indiana, a state demographically favorable to Clinton, but where polls show either an Obama lead or a dead heat. 

The bad news is that Pennsylvania validated the Clintons' strategy of going ugly, the only thing they appear to both excel at, and enjoy.  And now that Clinton has inched closer to Obama in the popular vote—just a half-million votes behind him—she's waving the bloody shirt of Florida and Michigan anew.

Not surprisingly, Sen. Clinton is advocating for inclusion of the Florida and Michigan counts, a position she made clear in an interview on Wednesday's "Good Morning America".

"The votes in Michigan and Florida were official," Clinton told ABC News' Diane Sawyer, "I mean, they were certified by the secretary of state.  It's just that the Democratic Party can't figure out what to do with all those votes, and try to seat delegates."

"I actually have more votes from people who actually voted for me," Clinton added.

Actually senator, you don't.  You don't by official estimates.  You don't by fair estimates.  You only do by your estimates, which intentionally exclude the caucuses Obama won that did not report a popular vote number, and then include both Florida and Michigan, states with primaries that the DNC dismissed for violating a pre-approved schedule.  A schedule that Sen. Clinton herself agreed to.  A punishment she raised not a peep about until she started losing. 

Including Florida and Michigan, as we all know, means including two states where neither candidate campaigned, and in Michigan's case, Obama was not even on the ballot.  Clinton, of course, has no trouble accepting the results of an election where her opponent was not even on the ballot.

So as excited as I am for an Obama turnaround in N.C., and as guardedly optimistic as I am for his chances in Indiana, the reality is that because his loss in PA has revived the false fight for the inclusion of the fraudulent Florida and Michigan counts, this primary season will likely end so sooner than the Denver convention in August.

And that is just horrible news for Democrats.