"This race isn't over yet," said Clinton to cheering supporters, notching what many believe will be a win that won't matter one bit in the Democratic nomination race.

But since she isn't getting out of this fight, we may as well throw out a large number of horse racing references since Kentucky is part of the Primary Daily Double that's next up on May 20.

If we were at Churchill Downs for a match race, Obama would be something like the 3-2 favorite right now to win the overall title.

Clinton meanwhile, would have a Daily Racing Form chart that would make you think there was a slight possibility that she could either close from the clouds at 99-1 or be so far back that she would win the next race.

"Four wide, driving" in New Hampshire. "Stopped" in South Carolina. "Dueled, up late" on Super Tuesday. "Rank" in Maryland and Virginia. "No speed, No factor" in Wisconsin. "Ran down leader" in Texas. "Drew clear, driving" in Ohio. "No match" in Mississippi. "Drew away" in Pennsylvania. "Pressed, Held Late" in Indiana. "Did not fire" in North Carolina. "Much the best" in West Virginia.

In other words, one week she's kicking Obama from here to the state line, the next week she's looking like a candidate running for student body President.

Does Arcangues ring a bell for anyone? (Lots of points to you if you had two bucks on the nose of that one.)

It was deja vu all over again as Clinton used her victory speech for the third time in four weeks to make a very public appeal for campaign money, asking backers to drop their TV remotes, put down their bags of potato chips and fire up hillaryclinton.com on the internet.

The first time in Philadelphia it worked. Lots of money rolled in. Last week in Indianapolis, it didn't work. I guess I would be surprised if it results in a rush of money this time, but who knows.

If you're Hillary, you may as well give it a shot. You're a longshot.

Before the votes were counted in West Virginia, Obama rang up four more superdelegates, while Hillary posted a big zero, just part of a 30-2 run by Obama in the last seven days.

If Hillary was making a 30-2 run right now, Obama would be in some serious trouble. Instead, he's moving inexorably to the Democratic nomination.

But he's going to have to fight for it.

Today, Obama goes to Michigan, to appeal for support among Reagan Democrats. Next week he goes to Florida, where he didn't campaign for the non-primary-primary back in January.

While Obama is acting like he's the nominee, he just can't get that gol-dern yapping dog to quit grabbing the leg of his pants.

"This race isn't over yet," she barked last night.

What would Yogi say?

"It's not too far, it just seems like it is."