"Race is over", NYT meta-declares

There is a NYT front page article that says that the punditry says that--with Obama and Clinton splitting North Carolina and Indiana yesterday--the race is over:

Very early this morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, the conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton’s continued viability as a presidential candidate.

The moment came shortly after midnight Eastern time, captured in a devastatingly declarative statement from Tim Russert of NBC News: “We now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to dispute it,” he said on MSNBC.

The comment was echoed on Drudge and soon repeated by many others.

Of course, the pundits will inevitably start talking about the NYT article...it's turtles all the way down, I'm telling ya.