After Ohio and Texas: What's Changed and What's the Same?

Making News

Bush Endorses McCain ()

Mike Huckabee ended his campaign last night, leaving John McCain as the last Republican standing. Today, he got the ritual blessing from his party's White House incumbent. James Antle is associate editor of the American Spectator, a conservative monthly.

Guests:

• James Antle: Associate Editor, American Spectator, @jimantle

Main Topic

After Ohio and Texas: What's Changed and What's the Same? ()

John McCain has wrapped up his party's nomination, but Hillary Clinton has bounced back again with a big win in Ohio and a squeaker in Texas, enough to make sure that she and Barack Obama will be campaigning for weeks to come. While McCain gets a unifying White House blessing, the Democrats are likely to remain divided all the way to the August convention. We look at the exit polls and what they say about change, experience and the impact of negative campaigning? Do Republicans really like McCain all that much? Will Democratic divisions be a source of weakness or strength come November?

Guests:

• Gary Langer: Director of Polling, ABC News, @LangerResearch
• Tad Devine: Democratic Strategist, Devine Mulvey
• Rhodes Cook: Editor, Rhodes Cook Letter
• David Corn: Washington Editor, The Nation, @DavidCornDC
• Jennifer Palmieri: Advisor, John Edward's 2008 presidential campaign

Links:

• Clinton hints at joint ticket with Obama on CBS Early Show
• Langer's analysis of Clinton wins
• Cook's 'Race for the Presidency: Winning the 2008 Nomination'
• Corn's article on Clinton's triple-win

Reporter's Notebook

Fabricating Memoirs ()

First it was A Million Little Pieces. Now, just two years later, a second fake memoir has fooled a major American publisher. Will there be any changes? Love and Consequences purported to be the memoir of a half-white, half-Native-American girl, who grew up in a black foster family in South Central Los Angeles. Margaret B. Jones supposedly carried illegal guns and sold rugs for the gang called the Bloods. But none of that really happened and Jones turned out to be Margaret Seltzer, who grew up in a comfortable suburb in the San Fernando Valley. Rachael Donadio is a writer and editor at the New York Times Books Review.

Guests:

• Rachel Donadio: Writer and Editor, New York Times Book Review, @racheldonadio

Links:

• Motoko Rich on 'Love and Consequences,' fallout from literary fraud