pacifier,
she won't take the offer to run as VP (if she is offered that is). last i heard, the likely candidates, if Obama was to win the nominations, were Kansas and Arizona Governors (both women).

sampada,
McCain certainly has loads of experience and a cross-over appeal as well.  If he wins, he would make a better president than Bush in my opinion (but then if pitted against Bush, anyone can potentially fare better than him for that matter ), but his adamant stance on continuing with the war is not gonna help his cause -- not when the country is under humongous burden of economic recession. people are looking for change as is shown by the trend in these primaries already.

spring,
michigan and florida cannot be included simply because when primaries were held in those states, candidates were not even ready (Obama was not). Heck in most of the counties, Hillary was the sole candidate running. Now having come this far (time-wise), and spent billions already, it wouldn't be of greater interest and advantage for the democratic party to hold another rounds of primaries in those states especially and more importantly when the general trend of voting in the rest of the country has shown that Obama is the better choice.

and yeah, hillary is a potential women president who, in my observation, is equivalent to any other men presidents we have seen so far clad in woman's outfit (talk of change and and the idea of electing the first woman president)