We could only stay up, or keep our attention on, for so long to watch the cable news coverage of last night's predictable Kentucky and Oregon primaries, especially because the Beaver State didn't close its polls till 11pm EST, and that snooze of an American Idol performance finale was anything but an upper. Which means we have to rely on what other people watch. You know, the pundit pundits.

• Alessandra Stanley, on Hillary Clinton winning, but remaining invisible:

She was not allowed to enjoy her spoils for long. The Fox News Channel quickly resumed discussing Senator John McCain’s foreign policy attacks on Mr. Obama. CNN carried a report from Iowa on Mr. Obama’s fund-raising ($31.3 million in April).

Pundits on MSNBC, perhaps stung by the Clinton campaign’s accusations of sexism against that channel and its parent network, kept emphasizing that Mrs. Clinton had run out of time. Keith Olbermann compared her to Wile E. Coyote going over a cliff in the Road Runner cartoons. Mr. Russert marveled that Mrs. Clinton had the gall to act as if the delegate count were a mere “loophole” and that only the popular vote mattered. He reminded viewers that the “elected delegate race is over; Obama has won that.”

• David Bauder, on the terrible job the cable nets did actually giving viewers what they wanted:

Television's news networks brought all of their punditry and electronic firepower to the Democratic presidential primary coverage on Tuesday, but left viewers yearning for the simplest of things.

Say, a reporter with a microphone who could walk into a bar in rural Kentucky and ask some voters what was on their minds.

The night of political water-treading — commentators who had already declared the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton race over were declaring it again after the Kentucky and Oregon primaries — did little to repair the campaign's punditry disconnect.