Even as the delegate totals from Super Tuesday were still being added up yesterday, the Democratic candidates zipped back to Washington, D.C. for a quick visit to the Senate, trying to help spur action on Democratic add-ons to a major economic stimulus bill.

Democrats were one vote short of getting the 60 votes needed to force final action on the legislative extras. Only one person did not vote on Wednesday evening - that was Sen. John McCain, the GOP frontrunner.

McCain will be in Washington, D.C. today, speaking to a major conservative GOP conference that will also hear from Mitt Romney today. Mike Huckabee speaks to CPAC on Saturday.

For McCain, it is an opportunity to try to reach out to conservatives, many of whom so far have reacted to his lead in the GOP nomination fight with outright hostility, and talk that they could never support him as their party's nominee.

Mitt Romney will meanwhile get to make the case that he is the conservative standard bearer. He won seven states the other night, but did not run strong in the South, while Huckabee did.

Looking through the delegate counts from Super Tuesday, it is clear on the GOP side that John McCain had the big night and is now the clear frontrunner in this race. In fact, Mitt Romney would have to win about 75 percent of all the remaining delegates to knock off McCain.

The Democratic side is still sorting through ballots in several states, with a race that is almost tied from Super Tuesday. At this point, every delegate counts of course.

One very interesting note about Hillary Clinton was her announcement that she's put $5 million of her own money into her race.

That confirms to me that Obama is raising a lot more money than her and has a lot more to spend in coming weeks.

A Few Minutes For Their Day Job

With Democratic leaders in the Senate trying to force final action on extras for an economic stimulus bill, Senators Obama and Clinton went back to Capitol Hill for a few hours.

They voted about 30 seconds apart from each other on the Senate floor and even shared some pleasantries. Both sides had learned from State of the Union that another "snub" was not what needed to be in the press today.

It was the second time in just over a week that Obama and Clinton had come back to help on a procedural vote.

As for John McCain, his plane landed about the time of the vote out at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, but he did not opt for the 90 mph police escort and missed the vote.

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean pounced on McCain's missed vote on the economy, saying "When the time came to act, John McCain was absent."

McCain has missed all eight votes in the Senate this year. He last voted back in December, when few people were giving him much of chance to prevail in the GOP race.

As I think about it at the keyboard, unless we have something really crazy happen, it looks like the fall elections will be between two US Senators. No Senator has won the presidency since John F. Kennedy in 1960.

No Rest For The Campaign Weary

After basically taking a day off following Super Tuesday, the five remaining major candidates will be back on the road again today.

What's next on the schedule are several states on Saturday: Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington State for the Democrats, Louisiana, Kansas and Washington State for the GOP

Maine Democrats also hold their caucuses on Sunday, which should be a win for Obama, who does very well in caucus states.

Next Tuesday there are primaries in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

News reports yesterday from DC said that some people in the region here went to their polling places on Super Tuesday, mistakenly thinking that their states were voting that day.

Barack Obama begins his day with a rally in New Orleans and then goes to Omaha, Nebraska. He ends up in Seattle.

Hillary Clinton holds a rally at a high school in Arlington, Virginia.

John McCain and Mitt Romney speak to a conservative conference in DC. Romney also gives a speech in Baltimore Thursday night.