The most unfortunate aspect of the much-maligned Lake County keeping Indiana interesting past midnight is that a completely befuddled Larry King has been forced to take the air while the results are still in question. But until that hair-raising spectacle, CNN's panels - normally a pointless exercise in partisan spin - offered some useful insight into the state of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
As pretty much every pundit in North America has already explained, it's wildly in the Republicans' interests for Clinton to stay in the race until the bitter end. The more she beats up the almost inevitable nominee, the better. And yet, even the Republican panelists can't quite bring themselves to claim that the results tonight mean that it's time to fight on. To a person, from what I've seen, they've assessed that Hillary had a bad enough night that for all intents and purposes she's finished.
No such qualms for the Clinton panelists, naturally, who remain firmly of the opinion that Democrats still owe her the nomination. Hopefully they're willing to personally fund the rest of her campaign, because it's hard to imagine who else will be looking to pour money into this sinkhole.
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Update: After about eight minutes of airtime, Larry King appears to have been sent home in favour of more Anderson Cooper. Although it's entirely possible Larry is still talking, and they just haven't told him he's off the air.
