| Phendrana said: Not even getting into personal politics, Clinton has very little chance to get the party's nomination. It's just simple math. At the current delegate count, she needs higher than 60% of the vote in every remaining state just to barely nudge out Obama. PA was the last big state where she had a substantial lead going into the election (started at 20 points). Still, she only managed a 10 point victory, which was much lower than what she needed. It's enough to keep her going, but that's about it. The super delegates could swing the count in her favor. However, that would seriously damage the party's credibility since Obama is currently favored by the popular vote. The Democratic primary is nuts though. I worked at my precincts polling station (about 14 hours On a side note, if you ever want to feel good about who you are, work an election day at a polling station. There are some...... "colorful" folks out there. |
) and the turnout for democrats was gigantic. PA is a left leaning state, but they outnumbered the republicans by about 4:1. Regarding the popular vote, I think she can still win the popular vote, she got 220,000 more today and is down by about 400,000+ which does NOT include Florida or Michigan. I feel the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot by not counting these two states, otherwise the Repubs will claim them come fall. I think they should count Florida as it is and do a redo in Michigan. If they count Florida, she ties with him in popular vote and gets a substantial boost in delegate lead. She can still win this thing.
For the record I like both Obama and Clinton, but I also feel that Obama is the weaker candidate come general election. I hear GOP is already starting attacks on him this week in North Carolina about his association with terrorist Ayers, bitter comments and Pastor Disaster Wright.
