Clinton Must Now Win 90 to 10 or Quit

[leftchick]

Hillary Clinton
by David Swanson | May 7, 2008 - 10:22am

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/14483

It's reached a point that everyone has known for months it had to reach, the point at which even people paid to do so cannot keep it going with a straight face. On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama picked up approximately 99 new pledged delegates from North Carolina and Indiana, while Senator Hillary Clinton picked up about 85. The final count may move a delegate or two, but these numbers are close enough for the following calculation.

Obama now has 1,592 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,419. There are 217 delegates remaining to be pledged. Of those 217, Clinton would need to win 196 to beat Obama, or a victory of 90 percent to 10 percent. That's about as likely as Dick Cheney hitting 50 percent approval.

Will Clinton finally at long last drop out on Wednesday? Will she wait another week for West Virginia, or yet another week for Kentucky and Oregon? Will she hang in there until June to make sure Puerto Rico doesn't win it for her, or Montana and South Dakota? And will people dumb enough to still watch television have to endure this crap all summer?

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Clinton cannot win. Period. She can only hope for an anti-democratic coup by Super Delegates that would destroy the Democratic Party.

So, why does the corporate media behave as if it's still a contest, and why does the independent media obediently fall into line? Presumably those two questions have two different answers.

[LVjinx]

1. Not one pundit has said this is a contest - all, every single one, has said it's over

Hillary isn't in contention for the nomination anymore. She's finishing up her commitment to her supporters, who gave her a LOT of money to run this race. In the end, she will have a number of delegates at the convention.

News flash : Edwards never dropped out either, he suspended his active campaign. He still has HIS delegates as well.

Obama will be endorsed, Edwards and Clinton will both campaign for him enthusiastically, and all the fighting and worrying will have been for nothing.

[Mz Pip]

3. She's asking for more money

which is pretty crass if she knows she can't win. I think she still thinks she has a chance and will continue on until even that small chance is gone.

[Zachstar]

2. She does not have to quit she may take it all the way

So it is important that we work HARD for Obama VICTORY!! There is still LOTS of work to be done and LOTS of phonebanking so PLEASE!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/phonebankmap/