Asked point-blank by the Post's Anne Kornblut if there had been any discussions about Hillary Clinton dropping out of the race, Howard Wolfson said, "No -- no discussions."

He then did his best to put yesterday's results in a positive light.

"These were two states that Senator Obama predicted victory in," he said, and, "These were two states we were supposed to lose. We won one of them."

"It was Senator Clinton making up ground and Senator Obama losing ground," he said.

Difficult.

UPDATE: Newsday's Glenn Thrush (who introduced himself on the call, very amusingly, as "Glenn Thrush of News Corporation, Cablevision or Boston Properties") asked whether it wasn't a very real possibility that even if Hillary Clinton got everything she sought from Michigan and Florida, she still wouldn't be in a position to win.

"That's why we have a process to find out," said Geoff Garin, adding, "You may be right, you may be wrong. The only way to know is to let it play through."

"If your theory were correct," Phil Singer jumped in, the Obama campaign would support "seating the Michigan and Florida delegations in full."