Well, it may all come down to today. The big showdown is coming to a head today in the great state of Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have been slugging it out for the last several weeks with the prize of 158 delegates on the line. This is not a “winner take all” state, so they will be dividing those delegates up between the camps.
Hillary is going to need to win big to really have a chance in this election. However, I predict that she will win with a significant margin, at least enough to keep her in the race. Rush Limbaugh has been pretty successful (it seems) with “Operation Chaos”, which has encouraged Republicans to change their registration to “Democrat” just to be able to vote in the Democratic primary. The whole point was to cause the infighting of the Democratic party to continue for as long as possible, and in the end to hand the nomination to Hillary. The belief is that Barak is the stronger candidate (because he has been propped up as such, not because of anything that he has actually accomplished), so Republicans want Hillary in the general election. It will certainly be interesting to see what might happen with this vital primary today.
There is a good chance that both Clinton and Obama will be in this race until late into the summer. They will probably both stay in until the Democratic Convention. Clinton’s best chance may be to hang on until then, and then steal the nomination through the Super Delegates. It is interesting to me that there are no rules at the Democratic Convention that required won delegates to actually vote for their candidate. Clinton has been taking advantage of that point to try and convince some delegates to vote for her at convention, even though the districts they represent were won by Obama.
There are certainly a lot of variables still in play on the Democratic side of this election. If Clinton draws closer through the primary today, then she will redouble her efforts to seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida (even though she agreed to exclude them because of their heinous crime of moving up the date of their primaries). It certainly looks like those two states could have a great impact on the final outcome of the election. I think I may enjoy sitting back and watching Barak and Hillary duke it out for the next few months. Who knows, this may last until September 5th and the Democratic Convention. With enough fighting among themselves, even the Democrats may be sick of them both by the time the general election rolls around!
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[...] Yesterday’s prediction came true. Hillary won in Pennsylvania, and won big enough to boost her already inflated ego, which is really a good thing. It looks like she will be staying in the race for the long haul now. She may even be able to convince the big wig super delegates to stay with her, and swing the nomination in her direction come September. [...]