First off, congratulations to Barack Obama on finally wrapping up our nomination.
Now, it is my belief that in winning, Barack broke our primary system wide open, which will require a fix before 2016 (hey, I'm an optimist). He did this by exploiting the delegate distribution scheme that had previously been ignored by all of our other candidates in order to secure victory against what should have been insurmountable odds.
By campaigning hard in states usually forgotten and the caucuses, plus targeting important districts in states that favored Hillary he was able to maximize his delegate count in wins and minimize his defeats, thus accumulating a huge lead in pledged delegates and securing our nomination. I have to commend his staff on their tactics and hope (and am confident) that they have a strategy ready to go for the general that will work even better.
The reason that I say he broke the system is that what he did (through the rules) had been previously ignored, but never will be again. While this could create a better system by forcing all of our candidates to assume a 50 state strategy, it is in the end a very costly strategy (in terms of dollars) to have to undertake when everyone else is doing it as well, which should force us to change our primary system unless we want to eliminate the non-cash flush candidates right off the bat and at the same time spend way to much money on the primaries that should ideally be saved for the general.
Once again, I commend Barack Obama and his staff for their win and simply hope that we change the primary system by 2016.