Is it any wonder why Hillary Clinton is smiling more and cackling less — well almost — these days, and it’s not because it’s Spring, as she said on Fox News this morning?

It’s because, if she can make a close go of it in tomorrow’s primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, her campaign team will work behind the scenes on the DNC to have votes in Michigan and Florida count, thus changing the rules that both she and Obama agreed to on December 1, 2007, long before contests were held.

This all grows out of a decision by both Michigan and Florida to ignore national party rules prohibiting all but a few states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — from holding primaries or caucuses before February 5, 2008.

And if they did so their primary votes would not count and the delegates from both states would not be seated at the August convention.

Michigan held its primary on January 15 and Florida on January 29.

“There is no secret plan,” Hillary said this morning on Fox News, “we have been saying all along that the votes of 2.5 million people must be respected.”

That is a different tune now then what the Clinton campaign agreed to when the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC voted to refuse to seat either state’s delegation.

Well we didn’t know then what we know now, that the campaign would be so close; she thought then that she was ‘entitled’ and all he wanted was ‘change.’

Now this strategy of the Clinton Campaign consists of seating the 210-member Florida and 156 Michigan delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama.

But it all rests on how close tomorrow’s primaries are as to whether Clinton can execute her plan.

The longer this goes on with the Democrats the more each candidate gets beat up, and if, against all odds Hillary steals this primary from Obama, the black community will feel more frustrated than they did during the civil rights movement.

If this is the way it plays out — checkmate McCain.