Ladies and gentlemen: Bill Burton and Terry McAuliffe.

Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton's former campaign chairman, has some harsh words for Barack Obama's campaign.

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Outside, in line, BOILING. 11:22 a.m.

"Lanny, what now?" reporters ask Lanny Davis one by one. "We're going to take the White House" is his talking point today.

And here's a reporter who's been covering Hillary for the whole shebang. What's next for him? "Gonna take a week off."

Inside. There are 10 American flags in the room, six of them on the stage around the podium where she will speak. It's Mark Penn's strategy come at last to full flower, too late.

One-quarter of the floor space is unused, cordoned off.  read more »

So there at the Hillary Clinton event at Baruch College was Lanny Davis, Senator Clinton's old pal from Yale--speaking to reporters, he stressed, as just a private citizen. Barack Obama, he said, "is strong in places where she isn't strong." Also Mr. Davis had called Senator Clinton that morning to tell her he was starting a campaign on a web site, one that would launch at midnight, after the victory speech!

One the web site, womenforfairpolitics.com, women may send a form letter to Barack Obama, asking him to make Hillary Clinton his pick for vice president.  read more »

The official count may not be in, but Terry McAuliffe is ready to call it.

“Let me be crystal clear: Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere,” he told reporters just now at the Clinton watch party here in Columbus. “She’s going to Denver as the nominee.”

“We are going to win three states tonight,” he said.

On a conference call just now, Terry McAuliffe and other Clinton campaign officals announced that they had raised more than $35 million in February and that $30 million of that money came from online grass-roots money.

The campaign attributed some of the huge haul to a groundswell of contributions prompted by Clinton’s lending $5 million to her campaign.

“I wish Hillary had loaned $5 million back in January of '07,” he said.

“Huge night,” said Terry McAuliffe as he walked out of the ballroom, ticking off the states won by Hillary Clinton.

“How about Massachusetts?” he said.

When asked if that win represented a measure of revenge against the Kennedys who had endorsed Obama, McAuliffe said, “We don’t get into revenge. We’re not about that. But let’s put it this way -- it was a fun win.”

Chatter about a possible Clinton-Obama presidential ticket has slowed as attacks between the two campaigns have become more frequent.

But during a taping of NY1’s Inside City Hall, Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe complimented Barack Obama and said, when host Domenic Carter asked if it would be a good idea to put Obama on a Clinton ticket, “Sure it would be, absolutely. How could you deny consideration of someone who has excited so many people?”

Partial transcript from NY1 (the show airs tonight):  read more »

Hillary Clinton’s top strategist Mark Penn said today, “The search for delegates, I think, is going to go straight through to the convention,” a shift from the once-commonly held notion that a nominee would be known after New York, California and 20 other states holding Democratic primaries on February 5.

On a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Penn was asked what benchmarks the campaign hoped to achieve.

“Again, I think it’s a search for delegates. I think the system is set up to be an extremely competitive one.” And, “I’m not going to go through any clear benchmarks other than that the search for delegates I think is going to continue straight through to the convention.”

Which is slightly different than what Terry McAuliffe was saying earlier.

Over the course of a conference call with Howard Wolfson, Terry McAuliffe and a number of high-profile Hillary Clinton supporters, some variation of the phrase "found her voice in New Hampshire" was used at least six times.

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez said it first, but it was repeated by McAuliffe, Wolfson and Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell. From Chuck Schumer we heard that Hillary is "in touch with what people need and want," from Cantwell that in the last two days before New Hampshire she saw the "passion" in Hillary, and that the candidate is "connecting and connecting with women."

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas noted that voters were "passionate, they were connected to the Clintons...they see her as having ideas and as being an inspiration." California Senator Dianne Feinstein added that "there is a great emotional connection between woman and Hillary."  read more »