CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are reporting that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has won the Ohio Democratic primary. Clinton also won the Rhode Island primary, and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) won Vermont.

UPDATE: The cable networks are now projecting that Clinton will also win the Texas primary.

She finally gets the call. I was going to say that now it all comes down to Texas, but actually it’s totally unclear exactly what’s at stake in Texas. Naturally the spin now becomes that if HRC can win Ohio in the primary she can carry it in the general. In the real world, no such logic applies, and it’s a good thing too because a Democrat would need to carry Obama-favoring swing states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missour and Clinton-favoring states like Ohio in order to win.

Today on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck asked Pastor John Hagee whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is the embodiment of evil:

There are people — they say this about Bill Clinton — he might be the Antichrist. Odds that Barack Obama is the Antichrist?

Watch it:

In 2006, Beck also called Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) the anti-Christ, stating, “I think we may have found our Antichrist and our next president.”

(HT: Chris Achorn)

Clinton takes the nation’s littlest state. I’m a bit surprised by how narrow the margin was since my sense of Rhode Island is that it’s like Massachusetts only with a somewhat less Obama-friendly demographic. Maybe “MA meets CT” would be more accurate, though, which would jibe with the results.

John McCain’s locked it up. No surprise, but now it’s official. Apparently he’s going to go to the White House for a laying-on of hands and then Bush can start working his fundraising mojo to help McCain fill up the coffers with special interest cash.

CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are reporting that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will head to the White House tomorrow to accept President Bush’s endorsement.

UPDATE: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has announced that he will drop out of the GOP presidential race.

UPDATE II: The Swamp has more details on McCain’s visit to the White House:

At the White House on Wednesday, Bush plans a noon welcome for McCain at the North Portico. Bush will host a lunch for McCain in the private dining room. Bush then plans a public statement with John McCain in the Rose Garden.

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According to MSNBC exit polls, it seems to have put Hillary Clinton over the top.

Relatedly, I don’t understand why they’re not calling Ohio for Clinton. The exit polls look unambiguous to me — she’s won it. Obama made up a lot of ground over the past two weeks, but she won the state and all that’s left to do is figure out the delegate count.

Ambinder has a solid explanation of the whole thing, albeit including a questionable Rawls reference.

It seems that in both Texas and Ohio a majority of primary voters feel Hillary Clinton attacked Obama unfairly. Personally, I think Obama attacked her unfairly a little, too, but she attacked him unfairly a lot.