Just in case you live in a cave, here are the latest numbers:
- Indiana: Clinton – 51%
Obama – 49% - North Carolina: Obama – 56%
Clinton – 42%
Senator Clinton was supposed to take Indiana with a double-digit win. That obviously didn’t happen. Not only does Senator Obama lead in pledged delegate counts, he leads in the popular vote and Super-delegates are also beginning an exodus from the Clinton camp. The calls for her to quit have resumed:
Senator Clinton, however, remains adamant that she will stay in the race until a nominee is chosen. We are also likely to see to see the Clinton campaign wage a serious battle over seating the delegates from Florida and Michigan. The Democratic National Committee will hold a meeting May 31st of its Rules and Bylaws Committee to discuss how to deal with this issue. Michigan’s executive commitee has settled on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59. Florida has yet to come to some arrangement. The question of whether these delegates should be seated at all still remains to be answered.
Meanwhile, Senator Obama and his aides have decided to ignore Senator Clinton. Instead they will begin to shift their efforts more towards the national election and defeating Senator McCain. Senator McCain has been allowed to silently campaign in the background with little or no media coverage. This works in McCain’s favor since he is beginning to show signs of senility by making Bush-like blunders:
- McCain Says He Does Not Expect Political Change in Cuba, Hopes Castro Dies
- John McCain: Blunders Never Cease
- McCain blunders on Iraq, again: Confuses Iraqi cleric with Prime Minister on ceasefire deal
- McCain says “League of Nations” needs to deal with Iran
- McCain Wants Missile Defense In Non-Existent Country
People are forgetting that there is a more important race ahead. The Super Race to the White House is six months away. This battle to become the democratic nominee for president has created rifts in the democratic party. And the longer this battle continues to drag on, the greater the rifts are becoming. We must have a united party in order to defeat McCain in November.
Unless Clinton sees the light, the next primary will be in West Virginia, Tuesday, May 13th.
Obama ’08
Obama/Paul ’08!!