I have been watching cable news more than I could possible care to in recent days and all of it seems to exist in a void , that while declaring the race over, fail to explain properly why the race is over. This includes talking about MI and FL as if Clinton's hope really rested on these two states. It simply does not, Senator Clinton needs both FL/MI and Super Delegate Coup, not one but both.
It could be argued I think well that since they broke the rules while we may wish to seat them in some capacity, the role of rogue primaries playing any role in decided our nominee is suspect. But lets for sake of being friends seat MI and FL. Lets be doubly generous, and assume MI uncommitted means uncommitted. Even in Clinton fantasy Camp, Obama has a 53 pledged delegate lead. Now it is in theory possible that at the end of the day, Clinton could catch that margin, with big enough wins in WV,KY and P.R. but even there the odds are stacked against her in this most favorable of favorable count. This is the Democratic process, as outlined by our Party, this is our definition of Democratic Legitimacy. If even in the Clinton most favorable of favorable count she can not come out ahead, which would be apparent by P.R. day June first. Then when the final votes are cast June 3rd, she should quit, that very night. This should not be subject to debate, or pleas to the super-delegates, if you didn't win the vote by even a count by which you net a magic 73 free delegates in MI, then the only logical, fair or reasonable conclusion is that you lost.This is why appeals to the mythical popular vote are so disgusting, they are entirely a mean to undermine Senator Obama's obvious Democratic Victory, to cloud the minds of her supporters and to make unity a million times more difficult. How can she quit if she "won". While we need to be tender, we can not allow the legitimacy of our nominee undermined by what amounts to a smear campaign.
While the Obama campaign can't say this out of deference to SD's we can. Clinton is behind in elected delegates in her magic happy best count. To be fair, she should be allowed one shot at the magic tree of life but not two. Either MI/FL or SD's not both. You can only subvert Democracy so much.