By: Abdul Muhsin
MIAMI – Tonight (May 20) will give us a much clearer indication of how “over” this Democratic primary has been since Super Tuesday in February. The writing was on the wall then.
Hillary Clinton did not have a plan to campaign after Super Tuesday.
Her campaign thought that the race would have been wrapped up by then, and whoever the presumptive Republican was, would then become their target. This was obviously a terrible miscalculation. Just as they miscalculated Iowa, Virginia, South Carolina, and even Texas, where Obama won the caucus, thus I thought gave a win in Texas. Remember this is a delegate race.
Now the Hillary Campaign is touting popular vote and count Michigan and Florida. We all know that the delegates are what will determine the nomination. We saw just this weekend that Obama drew 75 thousand people in Oregon. That is largest political rally in the history of American politics. And this is a state that has a population that is 85% white.
The Hillary campaign says that she was the only one that could reach blue collar, under educated white voters. Were all those people in Iowa, Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware and DC, non-White, professorial, wealthy white collar, Volvo driving voters? Many of the states were in excess of 80% white. There must be a qualifier here some where.
Each primary the goal post keeps moving. One week it’s the delegates that count. The next week Obama can’t close the deal, because he has a problem with White Hard Working Americans in rural areas of the swing states that the democrats need to win in November. Now the total delegate count is 2210 instead of 2206. Or Super delegates must move toward Hillary because she is the best candidate to beat McCain.
What happened to the one with the most wins, in delegates, states, Super delegates, popular vote etc? That happens to be Senator Barak Obama.
There must be a method to this madness of keeping this primary on going till June 3rd. There must be a strategy to limit the face time for Mc Cain on the Network and cable TV.
There has to be some democratic clairvoyance that says, let’s just keep this race going so McCain can’t get his ideas out and limit the Republican machine to the Fox Network. Other than that, this race has a clear winner, Barak Obama. The Super delegates are just waiting to move over to Barak.
Many of them see the handwriting on the wall.
Even the most senior senator from West Virginia just yesterday (May 19) endorsed Barak. West Virginia?
Didn’t Hillary win in West Virginia? Sure, but this is a clear indication that the win was not as significant as some in the Corporate Media want to force us to believe. You know it’s over when Karl Rove says that Hillary is the best candidate to beat John Mc Cain.
We all know that the Republicans want Hillary to be the nominee. They know they can beat like she stole something. They want to revive the Republican base that has been disgusted with this president 28-31% approval, the economy, the war, and everything they have touched, has turned to crap.
Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, and all the right wing talkers are losing their minds, because they see that Hillary will not be the nominee and that they will lose the White House, the House by 70 seats, and that the Senate will finally have a Democratic super majority. Let’s face it, this primary race is over.
Hillary should decide to get behind Obama , make sure constituents bring their support over to Obama, kiss, make up and win this thing.
