20 May
Posted by Cory Perry as Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Primary News
With the primaries today in Kentucky and Oregon, today really should be the nomination clincher for Barack Obama. After tonight, with a win in Oregon, he will take the majority lead in pledged delegates. This is really the final hurdle that the Obama campaign needs to claim victory in this race.
Obama is already leading in the popular vote (regardless of what Sen. Clinton says), states won, pledged delegates, and superdelegates. Winning a majority tonight will be big clincher for him and is very likely to make the remaining superdelegates resist an overturn of the nomination.
Sen. Clinton seems poised to go on however, regardless of how grim it looks for her. She is still campaigning quite heavily and is vowing that she will see this thing through. All in all, it is probably good that she finish it out though.
Once June 3rd rolls around and the final votes are in, I think it is then that she will concede the race and throw her support over to Obama.
I don’t think tonight will provide any interesting results or anything either. It is going to go just as everyone has predicted and Obama will still have the upper hand on the nomination.
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