I couldn’t sleep last night, so I kept turning to the iPhone for updates on the primaries. It all turned out just as I would have predicted, had I actually made predictions.

Hillary Clinton picked up Ohio and Rhode Island. Barack Obama won a pint-sized victory in Vermont. Texas tilted toward Clinton in the primary, but supplied enough caucus delegates to keep Obama ahead in the overall scramble for delegates. And that keeps the Democratic contest as muddled as ever as we head into an uncharted region of the calendar, in which states that haven’t swayed a primary since the invention of the system (Pennsylvania! North Carolina!) finally have their say.

And on the Republican side, McCain clinched the nomination, of course. Now he’s at the White House, about to pick up a kiss-of-death endorsement from President Bush. Despite the fact that he’s the overwhelming choice of actual voters, I think some Republican bigwigs really do want him to lose.

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