This party is split 50/50 and to deny that is to bury your head in the sand.
I know your proposal is that Hillary should drop out and unite behind Obama but there is simply no good reason or historical precendent for it. There was a great article about this in a Media Matters post:
http://mediamatters.org/...
"And what about Sen. Ted Kennedy's doomed run in 1980? He trailed President Jimmy Carter by more than 750 delegates at the end of the primary season and insisted on fighting all the way to the convention, where he tried to get committed Carter delegates to switch their allegiance".
"And what about Gary Hart in 1984? He and Walter Mondale split the season's primaries and caucuses evenly, and neither had the 2,023 delegates needed to secure the nomination...When Hart took his crusade all the way to the convention, the media did not form a posse and decide it was their job to get Hart to quit for the good of the party...Nor did the press collectively suggest that Hart had an oversized ego that had turned him into a political monster."
"And where were the catcalls in 1988 for Jesse Jackson to ditch his quixotic run before all the primary votes had been tallied? He finished with 1,200 delegates, nearly 1,400 behind Michael Dukakis, yet soldiered on all the way to the convention without having a prayer of winning the nomination."
"Or Jerry Brown in 1992? He continued his campaign against Bill Clinton through June despite the fact he tallied fewer than 600 delegates. (By contrast, Hillary Clinton has won approximately 1,600 delegates so far.) Brown's attacks at the time were far more personal and bruising than anything we've seen this cycle. As The New York Times reported on June 2, 1992, Brown "put his party on notice that he intends to carry his politics-is-corrupt, Clinton-is-unelectable message to the Democratic National Convention in New York in July, and beyond." Brown also told the Times that voting for Clinton was like buying a ticket on the Titanic."
But yet here we are in a situation where both candidates will end the primaries lacking the 2,024 votes to secure the nomination and what do we get?
Hatred, viciousness, anger, outrage, and then some...
And at who? A candidate who has over 14,000,000 votes and only needs a little over 400 delegates to secure the nomination.
She not only has the right and historical prescedence to take this to the convention, but the support of at least half of the Democratic Party.
And if Barack Obama does win the nomination he will need our support in November.
So, relax, and realize that this will go to Denver even if Obama secures the verbal committments in June. After all, Kennedy, Hart, Jackson, and Brown all did the same thing just as I'm sure Obama would if he was in her position.
Our party is split...it is not 90-10 like it is here...you are literally staring at 50% wanting one candidate while 50% wants the other.
Anger will not solve it, nor will hatred. My opinion...they join up or we will lose in November; guaranteed.