“Pundits have been clamoring for weeks that it’s over for Hillary. She disagrees, and says she will continue at least through West Virginia. Is Hillary toast?”

Well, if she visits a coal mine in West Virginia, it won’t be a canary she hears singing in the background, it will be the proverbial

"Is Gov. Arnold Scwharzenegger overstating the magnitude
of the budget problem? Is this a political maneuver–such as when he ordered state parks closed–to scare lawmakers and push through a mix of taxes
and cuts?"

Hillary wins in Pennsylvania, so it’s on to Guam, Indiana and North Carolina. Why should Hillary drop out?

As Guam goes, so goes the United States.

She shouldn’t. Dialing down the negative and often ridiculous rhetoric is certainly in order. However, if Senator Obama becomes the nominee and loses the

"With a budget shortage now estimated at $16 billion to $19 billion, the're's a new shock: The long-awaited plan to fix the prison system has $7 billion price tag, plus a long-term hit on the General Fund of $1.2 billion–all at a time when the economy is weakening. Is it time to free thousands

"On the budget crisis, the governor is sending signals to the Legislature –"be creative" and " find new revenue"– that suggest a major change is in the wind. Is this the year, finally, that lawmakers in both parties agree that tax increases are necessary?

No.

Hell no.

Yep.

"The latest wrinkle in the race for Democratic presidential nomination: a possible convention of superdelegates. Is this a good idea? Are Dems shooting themselves in the feet? Are the pledged delegates now irrelevant?"

As Willie Brown told the California Democratic Party convention this weekend, "the rules are the rules." And whoever has

"The governor spent a week traveling around the state pushing his budget reform plan, which includes automatic cuts when times get tight. Is this a good idea, and is his sales pitch working?"

Remember when the Pinto was blowing up in slow-speed crashes, and Ford said they could fix it by putting

How important is education as a political issue? Political pros say it polls at the top of voters’ concerns, but the governor’s office recently released a major, long-awaited study on education and it fell into a cone of silence. What’s going on?

Voters and politicians want easy answers, hoping more money or

Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton loyalist, says Barack Obama and his surrogates label as racist those who dare to criticize Obama. True? False? Or somewhere in between?

Good thing these are anonymous answers — or we’d all be racists in someone’s view. America needs a healthy discussion of race, but every comment, no

Is it time for everybody to learn about Puerto Rico's politics? With 63 winner-take-all Democratic delegates – more than Oklahoma, Connecticut and South Carolina – will Puerto Rico decide the Democratic presidential race on June 7?

Puerto Rico lo hace mejor!

If Puerto