This story sounds more like very informed prognostication as opposed to news.

Should the AP be running this kind of story when people are still heading to the polls?

Umm, only one party has been loudly proclaiming that the President has dictatorial powers in time of war. It ain't the one Hillary is a member of.

May God have mercy on us!

Actually I'm much happier to see Obama as the Democrat candidate (knock on wood, the convention hasn't happened yet). I just do not want any possibility of a Hillary Presidency Monarchy.

I'm confused by the notion of "a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost." If nobody votes for Obama today, he wins delegates?

I found some clarification here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_32

Obama effectively secured the magic number Tuesday, based on a tally of pledged delegates, superdelegates who have declared their preference, and another 15 superdelegates who have confirmed their intentions to The Associated Press.

It also included delegates Obama was guaranteed as long as he gained 30 percent of the vote in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.

Emphasis mine.

Unfortunately, a growing number of thieves are republishing the posts in full using RSS scraper technology.

You make it sound like it's elite hacking. RSS feeds were designed to be parsed and processed, no scrapers involved. On your non-technical reasons though, you have a good argument.

Of course, I've been using the Ad Block Plus extension for Firefox, so I'm kind of cheating you too, sorry about that. I've whitelisted OTB now, so expect a few extra pennies next month (It's quite literally the least I could do), try not to spend it all at one place.

WHAT HAPPENED TO FULL RSS FEEDS - they're now PARTIAL?!?!

Unfortunately, a growing number of thieves are republishing the posts in full using RSS scraper technology. People reading via RSS don't generate revenue and feed scraping actually takes money out of my pocket, reducing the site's Google ranking because we get labeled as "duplicate content."

Please change it back! This is one of the reasons why I kept reading this great blog... Please change it back to FULL rss subscription!

I'm confused by the notion of "a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost." If nobody votes for Obama today, he wins delegates?

That line confused me also. I think they either mean they're basing on minimum poll estimate, or that even if Obama lost all the delegates in these last elections, he'd still be the winner.

May God have mercy on us!

Yea, just think. Bush almost saved us from all this democracy and freedom crap...