Now that we're heading down the home stretch, only 12 more contests to go, I think it's about time to do the math. I'm sure both campaigns have done their math, played the numbers every which way but that. They have a rough estimate on the outcome of the pledged delegate count and the popular vote. If Clinton's campaign had done the math before, her campaign wouldn't be scrambling to find some spin, in order to sway the super delegates in her direction. Putting Florida and Michigan into play, well, Florida into play as the votes go, would give Clinton 38 more delegates. There's no way you can let Michigan's votes stand as they are, so either make Michigan a 50/50 split, or set up a new primary or caucus! If we let Florida's vote stand, see which way the main stream media's wind blows, who get's the lions share of their adoration, is there any plausable way for Clinton to overcome Obama? Who will still have the lead in the pledged delegate count and the popular vote. Do the math, stupid!
As I see it, there is no way that the nominee can or will be picked unless they get the most pledged delegates and the popular vote! It would be political suicide for the Democratic Party to give the nomination to someone who spun the books, so to say, manipulated the process. The African American vote, which is going predominately for Obama, would be disenfranchised. How can you not give the nomination to someone of African American descent, who garnered the most votes and pledged delegates, through a system made up from the good old boys club, then taking it away from him, by the good old boys club? Whatever movement Obama's campaign started, would turn into a revolution!
Clinton's campaign, for whatever reason, chose a strategy that has found her behind the eight ball, in the delegate count and the popular vote. Now, how is it that she's winning all these "big states" but isn't leaping ahead in the popular vote? I would have thought with Obama's string of caucus victories, which garner less voters, then the primary stystem, she would be ahead in the popular vote, why isn't she? From the bits and pieces I've strung together through the different outlets, I just don't see how the math is going to go in her favor, in the long run, after Puerto Rico.
Being that the case, I think it's time more people made it known, that in this contest, between an African American candidate and the first viable female candidate, the nominee has to get the popular vote and the pledged delegates! That being the case, isn't the contest already over?