I had a feeling that was going to happen last night, but I wasn’t ready for the fear that would creep into my very steadfast mind about this: now that the Media/Barack Complex narrative is moving to the fore as sort of a self-reflexive reaction to Hillary and SNL’s criticism, and the media had gone a little over the top in projecting her campaign’s demise last night and she can now position herself as that elusive “Comeback Kid,” I’m a little scared.

Of course not a lick of this has to do with the voters and it all is circled around the media narrative, but I happen to believe it could become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Mulling this over on the bike ride home, I was very comforted by David Plouffe’s blast to the Obama list, though. It’s not exactly ace reporting, but I’ll reprint it here:

Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday’s elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183.

That’s a net gain of 4 delegates out of more than 370 delegates available from all the states that voted… The task for the Clinton campaign yesterday was clear. In order to have a plausible path to the nomination, they needed to score huge delegate victories and cut into our lead.

They failed.

It’s clear, though, that Senator Clinton wants to continue an increasingly desperate, increasingly negative — and increasingly expensive — campaign to tear us down… The chatter among pundits may have gotten better for the Clinton campaign after last night, but by failing to cut into our lead, the math — and their chances of winning — got considerably worse. Today, we still have a lead of more than 150 delegates, and there are only 611 pledged delegates left to win in the upcoming contests. By a week from today, we will have competed in Wyoming and Mississippi. Two more states and 45 more delegates will be off the table.

We can either take on John McCain with a candidate who’s already united Republicans and Independents against us, or we can do it with a campaign that’s united Americans from all parties around a common purpose. We can debate John McCain about who can clean up Washington by nominating a candidate who’s taken more money from lobbyists than he has, or we can do it with a campaign that hasn’t taken a dime of their money because we’ve been funded by you.

We need a Democratic candidate who will present the starkest contrast to those failed policies of the past.

And that candidate is Barack Obama.

Just what I needed.