Wednesday, May 7, 2008

It's Over



Here's the math:

Total Delegates 1845 - 1693 Obama + 152
Super Delegates 257 - 271 Clinton + 14
Pledged Delegates 1588 - 1422 Obama + 166
Popular Vote 49.6 - 47.3 Obama +2.3
Popular Vote (w/FL) 48.7 - 47.5 Obama +1.2
Nat'l RCP Average 45.1 - 44.9 Obama +0.2

Calls for Thundercunt to drop out are coming from McGovern and Clark.

Hopey is back in Washington lining up the supers.

Ambinder wonders how she'll get out:

Barack Obama is, by almost every measure and by almost every unmeasurable impression, on the precipice of being able to declare victory and have his declaration be accepted by the media and his party. Hillary Clinton needed to find a way to give superdelegates their "Holy Moly" moment, and she failed. Absent an extraordinary intervening event, the question for Hillary Clinton now is how she ends the race. Obama has made it clear that he will not pressure her. It's her decision.

...THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN professes not to be worried about the hardening edges between Clinton's universe of supporters and Obama's universe of supporters. But they concede that reintregrating Clinton supporters in the party will be more difficult than in ordinary cycles. At the highest levels of the Obama campaign, there is no appetite for any talk of a unity ticket so far. Still, big victories in West Virginia and Kentucky will help Clinton make the argument that she is indispensable.

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