According to CNN, Barack Obama took the lead in elected delegates as the result of the primary election in Virginia last night.

That is something the Clinton campaign never considered as a possibility 14 months ago when that campaign got cranked up.

The Clinton campaign didn't believe Obama could raise more money. The Clinton campaign didn't believe Obama could raise bigger crowds. And the Clinton campaign certainly never believed Obama would ever have more delegates.

At 10:45 last night, CNN.com had the delegate count as Obama with 1,052 to Clinton's 951. Even when Hillary's lead in Super Delegates (234-156) was added, Obama still led by 23 delegates.

Yesterday morning, on an appearance on Fox & Friends (which will now be a regular Tuesday morning gig at 7:15 Eastern with Bob Beckel) I suggested that if I were running the Clinton campaign I would put Bill on the phone to Democrat state chairmen with this pitch:

Mr. Chairman? This is Bill Clinton. I want to help you raise some money for the general election in November.

If you will get 75% of the Super Delegates from your state to support Hillary at the Convention in Denver, I will come into your state and help you raise one million dollars between August and November. Do we have a deal?

Any state chairman - Republican or Democrat, Libertarian or Green Party - would be hard pressed to turn down that offer.

On the Republican side, John McCain won all three primaries last night each of which was winner-take-all. The result was McCain gained 113 delegates, Mike Huckabee gained none. So as of this writing, McCain now has 812 delegates to Huckabee's 217.

The magic number on the GOP side is 1,191 so McCain is about 2/3 of the way to the nomination as he is now only 379 delegates from a clear majority. Continued...