The media is starting to talk about the fact that Barack Obama plans on 'ending' his primary campaign where it 'begin' in Iowa.

The Obama campaign is very likely to clinch an overall majority of pledged delegates with Tuesday's contests, so the symbolism of his swing-state rally should be obvious: That he considers himself the popularly-elected nominee, and the race is on to fight John McCain.

They are asking the question, will he be claiming victory -- and can he?  They'll be reporting the 'fact' that Barack Obama has now won the majority of the pledged delegates, that he's won more states, he has the popular vote (DNC rules at this time say Florida and Michigan cannot be counted) and he's accumulated over 1.5 million donors.

MSNBC, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS will all be repeating these 'facts' on Tuesday night after the Kentucky and Oregon primaries.  A free infomercial if you will.

They'll most likely be predicting that Obama will announce his parties Democratic nominee victory that night.

I happen to disagree.  I don't think Obama will do that.  He knows that Hillary's planning on campaigning in Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana between now and June 3rd.  While he knows he's won the DNC rules, delegate count, he also knows each of those primaries can add votes to her popular vote.  If he were to declare victory as the media hints, he could make several of those voters angry enough to vote for Hillary instead of him.

Don't get me wrong.  Obama's camp will most likely continue to 'hint' that he will be declaring 'victory' in Iowa on Tuesday night (to get the media 'talking' about Obama being in the lead); but when that times comes, he will just point out where his campaign stands instead and say something to the effect, "we have states still waiting to vote.  We will fight for their support just as we have all the other states.  I'll also be taking on John McCain and his hero, George W. Bush."

So, go ahead those of you in the media, keep talking about Barack Obama's 'victory' announcement in Iowa -- get him as many viewers as humanly possible.  He needs to let people this is essentially 'over' but that he also respects and desires those other states support.