Progress Illinois

The Sun-Times editorial board isn't the only local voice calling for Hillary Clinton to step aside today. Crain's columnist Greg Hinz is also urging her to "Pack It In":

In thumping Ms. Clinton in North Carolina on Tuesday, and effectively fighting her to a draw in Indiana, Barack Obama almost certainly ended the seemingly endless race for the Democratic nomination for president. And he did it despite having gone through an incredibly bad month or so when the media utterly fixated on Wright-gate and “bitter”-gate.

Barring the unexpected — the 21st-century equivalent of Huey Long’s old nostrum about how his candidate could survive anything except being found in bed with a dead girl or a live boy — the race has ended.

In reality, the mathematics of the Democratic race has been emerging for several weeks. Tuesday’s outcome made the math absolutely compelling. It more than wiped out the gains Ms. Clinton won in Pennsylvania, while sharply depleting the pool of as yet unelected delegates.

Hinz also includes this nugget in response to Clinton's "white voter" argument:

[I]n the two states [North Carolina and Indiana] combined, [Obama] actually got a majority of votes among whites under age 65, according to top Obama strategist David Axelrod.