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We've been waiting for this night to come for weeks (or months). Barack Obama has won enough delegates to clinch the democratic presidential nomination. Looking back, the wind in Hillary Clinton's campaign sails was lost May 6.

North Carolina voters, despite a fast and furious courtship by Hillary, Bill and Chelsea, resoundingly decided the future is Obama. Combining those results with a much too close win in Indiana determined how this race would end. She continued to move forward, but never closed the delegate gap.

Many criticized Hillary for not ending her campaign before now, but I don't. You play the game until it's over.

We had a lively debate in the newsroom this afternoon when AP broke the story Hillary would be open to becoming Obama's running mate. The majority felt her quickness to accept second fiddle was akin to placing a large anvil around Obama's neck. I (always the ornery one) believe she has to entertain the offer, whether it's formally offered to her or not.

Barack Obama changed the dynamic of this year's campaign though voter registration and grass roots fund raising. Hillary gets a lot of her support from Hispanics and middle-class white men and women, votes from demographics both parties covet.

There have been stranger pairings than Obama/Clinton. In 1960, John F. Kennedy chose Lyndon Johnson because Kennedy knew he couldn't win the South without him. Ronald Reagan went with George H.W. Bush 20 years later, the strongest of the rest of the GOP field (although I can't imagine any running mate dragging down Reagan in 1980).

Obama needs the Clinton family Rolodex. He and Hillary have to work together for practical reasons. I believe she can help him without being his running mate. Stranger things have happened. Stay tuned.

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