The New Republic's Michael Crowley was lucky enough to be onboard Hillary Clinton's flight out of Iowa last night during which various campaign spinsters joined the press guys in the back of the plane. This brief conversation with Terry McAuliffe which Crowley reports is pure Clinton:

The preternaturally jolly McAuliffe is a good mad [man?] to have spinning for you in a pinch. But his good cheer dimmed when I asked him about Bill Richardson, who appears to have made an 11th-hour deal to throw his supporters to Obama. "How many times did [Clinton] appoint him?" McAuliffe marveled. "Two? U.N. Ambassador and Energy Secretary?" He looked at me, half-glaring, awaiting confirmation. "I don't know," I joked, "but who's counting?" "I am," McAuliffe said firmly.

In the movies (bad ones at least) that's right when the scene fades to black to the sound of menacing music.

Then there's this little bit at the end:

There are still straws to grasp. Hillary loyalists maintain faith in her iron support in New York and also California--whose vast numbers of Latino voters are thought to be skeptical of an African-American candidate. (One Democratic operative recently described this to me as the Do the Right Thing factor.) There is also the final Democratic debate Saturday evening, an opportunity to take Obama down a peg--but also the most pressurized moment Hillary has faced yet.

"Do the Right Thing," by the way, is a movie about black-Hispanic tensions in Brooklyn, or at least that's what Wikipedia told me.

UPDATE: Plenty of readers with greater knowledge of the Spike Lee canon have wrote in to inform me that "Do the Right Thing" is about racial tensions between blacks, Koreans and Italians, and not Hispanics. So I think the "Do the Right Thing" Factor, as Crowley's Democratic operative labeled it, encompasses racial tensions (specifically minority racial tensions) in the generic sense.