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I’m sorry but the democratic primary is just rediculous at this point.  For Clinton to continue to rationalize her candidacy while still losing the popular vote is maddening to watch.  As you may know by now Hillary won the Pennsylvania primary with 55% of the vote.  The 10 point win allowed her to gain 6 delegates though she still is down to Barack Obama by 154 delegates.  With 7 state primaries remaining Clinton will most likely fail to catch Obama, unless she can win the remaining states by 50 or more points.  The fact is that for Clinton to win the nomination she would need the superdelegates to come over to her side in the Democratic National Convention.  Which would be similar to the 2000 Presidential Election when the electoral college chose George W. Bush to be president even though Al Gore won the popular vote.

So at this point Hillary is really campaigning to the superdelegates.  When she talks about how she is the better candidate to win the swing states against John McCain she is trying to tell the superdelegates that even though more Democrats want Obama as their candidate, she wants them to give their votes to her so she can steal the nomination.  Sure she has won in the big states and the swing states, but let us not forget the primary isn’t an indicator of how people will vote come the general election.  Will the Hillary voters vote for Obama should he win the nomination? And will Obama voters switch to Hillary if she is the candidate in the General Election? Just because Obama couldn’t beat Hillary in states like Pennsylania and Ohio does that automatically mean that he will also lose those states to McCain?

The fact is that Hillary Clinton is being stubborn.  She is refusing to bow out gracefully out of shear vanity.  It’s an ego trip at this point.  She knows that she is close but people seem to like Obama more and she doesn’t want to face that reality.  It’s time for Hillary Clinton to wake up and quit forcing herself on everyone.  The worst part is how the media strokes her ego and feeds into this battle so that they can continue to have some news to cover in this election.  If it was down to one democrat against McCain at this point the proceedings would be quite boring.  At least now we have some intrigue.