It is time to face facts. Based on all the votes to date in our Democratic primary, half of the voters want Barack and the other half want Hillary.
The passion that African-Americans, young people and affluent liberals have for Barack Obama has built an impressive and inspirational movement for change.
Women, Latinos, Asian-Americans, the GLBT community and others are justly proud and motivated to support Hillary Clinton.
Emotions are running very high and in many cases we are left with an us vs. them mentality, pitting Democrat against Democrat. The acrimony on both sides increases daily with both sides threatening to withhold their support should their candidate not be nominated.
News comes today suggesting that it is very likely that we will end up with a brokered convention where the decision will be made by superdelegates. Our candidates need to do a deal, we must have both of them on the ticket and avoid the brokered convention scenario.
Otherwise I fear that our party will be ripped apart. Think about it for a minute. Imagine that we go into the convention with a very close delegate count (think Florida 2000 but for the Democratic Party).
I'll tailor this thought experiment specifically for Obama supporters as they are the vast majority of supporters on this site. If Clinton were ahead by 20 delegates, would you really abide by the decision of the super delegates to go with the slim majority (Clinton), would you feel robbed?
For my fellow Clinton supporters: if Obama were ahead by 30 delegates would you support the will of the slim majority when we all know that much of the reason for Obama's advantage is because a lot of non-Democrats came into the process?
My personal preference is a Clinton/Obama ticket, but I would be happy with an Obama/Clinton ticket. How do y'all think we can fix this potentially disastrous problem?