A sweeping (60-80%) win is not plausible, that is what she needs, not a 9% win like PA. Maybe if you stopped listening to the right-wing garbage comming out of Hillary's mouth you'd realize how asinine you sound. And no, I'm not a "Birkenstock-wearing-obamabot-lib'ral" I'm just disgusted with how when there's a choice between a right-wing conservative and a midly-left wing candidate in a democratic race, people still flock to the old power establishment of the right.

Venture away about the level of education here. You do realize you sound a little snotty about your level of education, don't you? Anyway, as of today, during what could be described as Obama's worst week ever, he has gained the endorsement of two delegates. Since Hillary's 9 point win in PA, she has gotten 3 super delegates and Obama has gotten 7. I know math is a difficult subject for Hillary supporters but maybe you should take a math class.

We've seen 1 Super change endorsements under spectacular pressure to do so. The idea that some great movement of Obama's SDs to Clinton is just laughable. Obama should end with 100+ pledged delegate lead, that means Hillary has to get at least 70% of the remaining SD to get the nomination. She has shown no ability to get anything close to 50% since Feb.

I'll also add that you are in a dream world if you think the DNC is going to trump 100+ pledged delegate lead with SDs. If you look at delegate trackers and actually read anything that most of the SDs have said it's that they will fall behind the candidate with the most pledged delegates. Since that's currently impossible for Hillary this race is over.

The only path to the nomination that Hillary has is for Obama to have a stroke. That said I actually don't mind this contest. Certainly it's taking some of the shine off Obama but that would have happened in the General anyway. More importantly this gives Obama a chance to fine tune his campaign and practice national campaigning. I'm also glad the Wright crap is getting over now and not in 4 months. By October most of America will be sick of hearing about Wright and most of the press will switch to other topics.

That's another one of my fave openings for a comment: I venture to guess I'm a hell of a lot smarter than the rest of you...

Do tell us your IQ - please. One of these comments is ever so incomplete without that.

You know, sweetie, I have a doctoral degree and I still have to carry numbers, so, unh, chest thumping self importance aside, I'm not sure your "advanced degree" means you're the last word in electoral math.

Kind of looks like a wedding.

Yes, well I wonder why the liberal and progressive readers support the less progressive candidate. Hillary's health plan is more progressive and Obama's reaction to her plan has reduced the likelihood of passing substantive reform. Hillary's tax plan is more progressive and her mortgage relief plan is better. Hillary's education plan is better. I could go on and on.

There are two issues on which Obama is more liberal: immigration and criminal justice. I prefer his position to hers on those.

As to the war: opposition to the war comes from liberals and conservatives as does support for the war. Yes, she was wrong to vote for authorization of force, but as far as withdrawal goes, there is not a huge difference between them.

I strongly preferred John Edwards and Clinton is my second choice, Obama my third - and my support for him is lukewarm thanks in part to his repeating the conservative talking point that liberals are hostile to religion. Also, when he talks about health care, I want to pound my head against the wall because he is making it more difficult for the next president - either him or Clinton - to succeed at passing health care reform.

But I think the base of my support for Clinton comes from my personal history of growing up poor - poor as in we didn't have running water, as in me being the first in my family to get a college education, as in hunting for deer so we could have meat -- not because we wanted to be "Annie Oakley." Class politics matter to me.

Poor and working class folks don't need condescending sympathy, they don't need intellectualizing marginalization. They need someone who can identify with them in a personal level. This doesn't have to come from a person's upbringing. Bobby and Teddy Kennedy grew up with immense class privilege and yet could cross class boundaries and "get it."

Perhaps Hillary gets her understanding and identification with the working poor from her relationship with Bill and Bill's mother. No matter where it comes from, Clinton "gets it" and Obama doesn't.

In political activism, you find lots of people who care about working class issues and poverty but don't really like working class people or the poor. It's common, but that comes from a sense of charity not of economic justice. Working class people don't need charity and sympathy nearly as much as they need economic justice.

Well, you see i am not a DLC Democrat. I don't get interested in politics once ever few years, but work on it everyday. I have worked for universal health care, progressive taxation and campaign finance reform for years. For me, it's not the personality so much as the policy.

I get that Clinton is not charismatic. I would rather listen to an Obama speech than a Clinton speech, but bottom line, Clinton is better than Obama on policy from the progressive viewpoint.

For some reason, I wrote my reply to you in the space for replying to the person above who exemplifies the Obamaniac (a term I don't apply to all Obama supporters) so well with her gracious invitation to me to leave so you all can have your echo chamber to yourselves.

Equally graciously and with stunning accuracy, she suggests sites that her unerring logic proffers as places I would feel more at home. That she is 100% wrong is an idea that will never cross her mind. She has her stereotype of the Clinton supporter and wants Clinton supporters to leave so she doesn't have to worry that she may learn something.

You don't strike me as an Obamaniac. So here's a question for you. Do some of your compatriots make your writhe with embarrassment?

No way we're letting him on the ticket!

Let's see what happens over the next week. If either candidate sweeps, it would be hard for either to rebound. Most likely a split and the nomination process runs until at least until early July.

While Obama is not one of my top choices, the a shotgun wedding may be needed in order to win in November. I feel this is a re-run of Carter/Kennedy.
The nomination proces has caused serious damage to the DEM party and in all honesty, I'm not sure it can be repaired without some sort of unity ticket but you may be right; only time will tell.