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Mar 04
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Wake Me When It’s Over

I can’t stand to hear the punditry try to spin this race into cotton candy.

These are the facts:

  • Hillary lost 11 races in a row, and lost them bad.
  • Hillary is so far behind in delegates, that even if she won Texas and Ohio by 10 points each, she couldn’t even begin to start catching up to Obama.
  • Almost all of the states ahead favor Obama, tonight was Hillary’s last chance to pick up a lot of delegates, and she didn’t do it.
  • Hillary positioned Texas and Ohio as firewalls, they were supposed to stop Obama dead in his tracks and be her big comeback. It turns out he either did beat her, or nearly beat her, in Texas, and came pretty close in Ohio. That’s not a firewall, that is tissue paper.
  • The pundits are tripping over themselves to ask if this is a repudiation of Obama, a rejection (this is mostly Joe Scarborough, a Republican douchebag), a sign he can’t seal the deal, while they are overlooking the obvious fact just a few weeks ago he was behind in both of these states by 20-30%, and now he has all but destroyed that margin, and just in a few weeks, while Hillary was desperately throwing everything she could at him. That is NOT a repudiation, that is NOT a loss of momentum, he kicked her ass considering where he was just a short time ago.
  • The pundits won’t shut up about needing to win big states in November, while totally overlooking the fact that winning a primary doesn’t reflect the general election outcome. Look to the polls (and use a little common sense), and while far off, they still show that Obama is MUCH stronger in almost every state (with the exception of Florida, where Obama hasn’t been able to campaign yet) than Hillary against McCain. I don’t know if these people are trying to be deceptive, or if they really are that stupid.
  • The pundits are right about one thing, Hillary staying in this race is hurting the Democrats, and if she keeps this up until Pennsylvania, it is going to tear the party apart. Someone said it, I don’t remember who, probably Olbermann or Matthews, but someone raised the question, if Hillary goes on, does this not show that she cares more about herself than she does about the party. Thank you for catching up, that much has been obvious for weeks now.
Having said that, I have to get up early tomorrow, I can’t stand to hear these idiots try to find any reason to say Hillary’s campaign has an ice cube’s chance in hell of winning, so I’m going to try to sleep. I’ll go over the results in the morning..