Libhomo: Only time will tell, but as I say, the big thing to keep fingers crossed for is for Obama to make up about fifteen points before Florida. He does that, and he’s going to go into Super Tuesday with some massive momentum.

Americanneocon: I’m not sure I agree with… well… a lot of what you say. On your speech analysis, I didn’t see it as a populist message so much, and in fact, in the primary theme of his victory speech, unity and people of all demographics coming together under a common effort for change, he did in fact even include the rich. Yes, he did focus on the problems of the poor and downtrodden more, however, unlike the much more blatantly populist Edwards, he didn’t frame these things in the terms of corparatist enemies. In fact, one thing that struck me about his speech was that the only enemies he really pointed to in his speech were the current administration, lobbyists, and status quo politics. It was well framed and characteristic of a campaign that focuses more on fixing the problems as opposed to making political hay off of what popular usual suspects caused them.

As for the second half of your comment, I don’t necessarily disagree, but I’m not hopeful enough to agree. I would really love it if what you say will happen actually does, but I’m going to hold off to see how things develop over the next few days.

Mark: AGREED! Only, at this point, I don’t like getting too hopeful, and as I told Mike, whom I was chatting with during the speech, I had to leave the computer before I got into the, “We’re going to win this thing” mode that only leads to depression when HIllary inevitably wins the next primary.

His supporters, I must say, seemed to rock the decibel-meter more so than any victory speech I’ve seen this year. Maybe I just have the volume set a bit high. It sure seemed that the energy was just pumping out of the auditorium.

Obama gained what he needed most going forward: momentum. He’ll see a surge in contributions next week, and a priceless rush of earned media, as his visage’s further splashed acrossed newspapers, magazines, and TV news shows around the country following this Palmetto State breakthrough.