DEMOCRATS SEE BIG BATTLE AHEAD

Democratic party officials worry this is going to get nasty. (LA Times)

Florida and Michigan are demanding their delegates be seated. (Sun-Sentinel)

Meanwhile, the nasty has begun. A story notes Obama “Campaign Manager David Plouffe went so far as to call Hillary Clinton the ‘most secretive politician in America today.’” (MSNBC)

From Karl Rove: A long Democratic battle doesn't automatically help the Republicans. In fact, it hurts the Republicans in certain ways. Mr. McCain becomes less interesting to the media. Stories about him move off page one and grow smaller. TV coverage becomes spotty and short. There are not yet big and deep and unbridgeable differences between the two Democrats and there is plenty of time to heal most wounds (except, perhaps among the young if Mrs. Clinton were to win). Continuing to build a profile and lay the predicate for the short fall campaign against either Democrat becomes the challenge for Mr. McCain while the Democrats battle it out. Rove then lays out what Hillary and McCain must do to defeat Obama. (WSJ)

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