MARC AMBINDER: First Glance At The Exits: Democratic Party Cracking Up?

Obama supporters really don’t like Clinton, and vice versa. Some of that will fade by election day, of course. But how much?

UPDATE: Dems must be worried, because Obama just addressed this question in his speech.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The CNN folks sent me a transcript from earlier this evening, and here’s a choice bit:

BEGALA: We cannot win with egg heads.

Let me finish my point.

We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of the first George Bush.

President Clinton — reached across to get a whole lot of Republicans and Independents to come. I think Senator Obama and Senator Clinton both have that capacity. They both have a unique ability — well it’s not unique if they both have it. They both have a remarkable ability to reach out to those working-class white folks and Latinos.

Senator Clinton has proven it; Barack has not yet, but he can. And I certainly hope he is not shutting the door on expanding the party.

Will Obama fix this? So far I’ve seen a lot of talk about unity, but not much actual effort to compromise with people who aren’t already in his camp.