Have you noticed that Hillary Clinton has never, ever taken a day off this year? Maybe even last year? (hat tip to Barbara Kellerman). We all know the woman works hard. She has pluck. She's a fighter. But now, to preserve her reputation, she's going to have to be a quitter, the thing that is anathema to every over-achiever in the world.

From Pajamadeen:

Amidst reports that the Clintons are lending yet more money to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, MSNBC’s
Tim Russert reported that Mrs. Clinton has cancelled all of her
appearances on morning talk shows for today and, in fact, has cancelled
all appearances for the day. At 12:30 a.m., Russert said: “We now know
who the Democratic nominee is going to be.” Chuck Todd of MSNBC
crunched the numbers, calculating that Obama leads Clinton by about
710,000 in the popular vote — and still leads by about 200,000 if the
Clintons succeed in their May 31 attempt to get the DNC to count
disputed Florida and Michigan primary votes. Obama is also ahead by
about 160 Democratic convention delegates.

Although media momentum has been behind Hillary since Pennsylvania, Cenk Uygur at the Young Turks writes before her "Joementum" in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and where she stands today Clinton has LOST 53 delegates.

And yet's today's fundraising email read:

Today, in every way that I know how, I am expressing my personal determination to keep forging forward in this campaign.

I can imagine the clenched jaw and fierce determination as she her fundraising staff wrote those lines. There's been much talk that Hillary Clinton's movie doppelganger is Tracy Flick from the great movie Election and I never agree more with this idea than when I think of Hillary and sentiments like the one above.

But Hillary's media momentum didn't catch on with voters, as last night's results in North Carolina and Indiana showed, and even though the media wants this to keep going, and maybe even 60% of voters do too, it's clear the political establishment thinks it's time to bow out. As Pam Spaulding reports, Hillary met today with superdelegates at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. I hope she takes tomorrow off to reflect. Too much time on auto-pilot doesn't allow one to think and reflect. And even a would-be leader of the Free World needs to do that.

 PS: All of us working women, even Mrs. Clinton, need better support in terms of child care and elder care. Please take a moment to fill out this survey from Working America/AFL-CIO about what it's like to be a working woman in America right now, and how our government can help.