The election isn't over, taking Wisconsin doesn't mean he can win a big northeastern old Democratic state. Last night should be a helpful wakeup call that, logic be damned, Clinton isn't getting out of the race and her supporters are just as fired up as Obama's. It's time to realize that capitulation isn't going to happen and figure out how to end this primary in a way that paves the road to victory in November.
First of all, we need to stop telling each other what we want to hear. KOS isn't helping anyone by massaging the numbers until they're purple showing how each Clinton win is another brick in the road to eventual Obama victory. Yes, Pennsylvania actually helped Barack get closer to his magic number and NO, super delegates are not going to swarm to Hillary but...
IS IT TIME FOR BARACK OBAMA TO PROVE HE IS A UNITER - YES
Believe me, while most of you were watching PA like a golf match on TV, the real citizens in Pennsyvania where more actively involved than in any general election in my memory. I worked the polls in PA for 10 hours and then had an election party with over a hundred rabid Obama and Clinton supporters. This felt even bigger than the 2004 Kerry election.
Clinton supporters are every bit as bitter about how they've been demonized as Obama true believers feel slandered. They see how their beloved Bill has been frameshopped into a dottering, bigoted buffoon and they hear all the states that have carried the water for the Democratic Party since the Civil Rights Act being dismissed because Barack is strong in dead Red states who's democratic registration can be counted on fingers.
Obama can't lose the primary, the math is with him but he CAN lose the general if he doesn't make peace with the active, mobilized and energized Clinton cadre.
It's time for the Uniter to do some uniting... Obama needs to sit down with Hillary and ask her what she wants to settle this thing. A nice house at the Naval Observatory? FINE, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
We can all be as arrogant as we want, Obama can't lose the primary but he cant' win the general without Hillary and her supporters. Listen with your ears and hear what the real voters are saying:
WE WANT THEM BOTH ON THE TICKET!!
You may not, but you don't count anymore, Barack already has your vote.