News about the news

From Yahoo’s most viewed news stories at 10:09 P.S.T.:

  1. Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama AP – 4 minutes ago WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president.
  2. Clinton campaign says she’s not conceding Reuters – 1 hour, 32 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is “absolutely not” planning to concede the campaign to Barack Obama on Tuesday night, Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told CNN on Tuesday.
  3. Obama creeps past McCain in opinion poll AFP – 1 hour, 44 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AFP) – Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama has pulled ahead of Republican John McCain in the latest Gallup voter opinion survey, published Tuesday in USA Today.

The first two items show how quickly the situation can change in today’s political world, with news that’s an hour and a half old already being stale and useless. The third item is just scary.