Obama-gone 80% reporting

By The GroupNewsBlog

Obama 308,837 58%
Clinton 221,376 42%
In the "under" vote, McCain has collected more votes than Clinton. This has to be one of the first times since the Republican nominee was selected that he has not lost to the Democratic 2nd place finisher. On another note, racist Ron Paul is pulling only 15%.

With this win Senator Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates and is within 64 delegates of securing the democratic nomination.

So, just to recap...

Total delegates: Obama 1957, Clinton 1775 (Obama + 182)
Superdelegates: Obama 305, Clinton 279 (Obama + 26)

Popular vote (w/ FL): Obama 17,225,154 = 48.2%, Clinton 17,078,440 = 47.8%

I no longer look at the MI vote because Obama's name did not appear on the MI ballot and the tallies are skewed as a result.

At this point Obama needs just 68 delegates to secure the nomination. And there are only three primaries/caucuses remaining: Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana. There are just 86 delegates between those three votes that can be allocated. So there are now just two outcomes: enough superdelegates shift to Obama's side of the balance sheet to put him over the top after the delegates from those three primaries are allocated -- and with only an eighteen-delegate gap between what Obama needs to win and the total number available, there's very little mathematical probability that he'll win outright prior to the convention -- or we get a brokered convention, with all the pomp, ceremony and mudslinging that accompanies ANY major political gathering. (Watch a Congressional session on C-SPAN if you don't believe any of that.)

Clinton is fighting a losing battle, but she's too mired in herself to realize how badly she's damaging the nation because of her unwillingness to do the right thing and concede.

So off we go to Denver. Remind me not to try for tickets to a Rockies game around that time.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith