Over at Contentions, here's Daniel Casse: "If Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, [some] will argue, persuasively, that Romney may have been a better GOP nominee. Against Obama, McCain is the old man versus the young man, the old way versus the new. Romney, at least, can make a much stronger argument against Obama's soft-headed economics. "But if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, then we really do have one of the great national contests on our hands - and the McCain haters will have no choice but to get on board." This sounds about right to me, though Obama does have liabilities - his inexperience, and his liberalism - that may make him slightly less unstoppable than people think. The larger point here, though, is the amazing way in which McCain, after winning three out of five early contests with little money and tough opposition, gets absolutely no credit from a variety of pundits. On CNN last night, Bill Schneider was talking about the "hard road ahead" for McCain. Um, not quite.