Senator Clinton’s large victory in West Virginia is no big deal, according to the newspaper of record. As of this writing the NYT does not have the results of the West Virginia primary on page one, and we had to keep reading until the fourth paragraph to get the numbers, which seemed pretty stunning to us:

With 92 percent of the precincts reporting, Mrs. Clinton had 67 percent of the vote and Mr. Obama had 26 percent. John Edwards, who pulled out of the race but whose name remained on the ballot, had 7 percent.

To one Times reporter, it was all just so much ho-hum: “just another state in her column to reinforce her view that she can win in November, and by extension, that Mr. Obama cannot.” (By contrast, the NYT’s coverage of Senator Obama’s victory in Wyoming, a state with half the delegates and no recent history of voting Democrat in the general election, was quite bouncy and upbeat.) We wonder what counts as a good state and what is “just another state.” Not really too hard to guess.

UPDATE

The Times was considerably more upbeat about the endorsement from erstwhile contender John Edwards, which did find it way to the front page: “Ex-Rival Edwards Throws His Support to Obama…The endorsement could offer Senator Barack Obama help in his efforts to win over working class white voters in the general election.”

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