There's uphill - and then there's this

April 7, 2008

As I said before, I don't believe that it's necessary for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the Democratic race if she doesn't want to. If she wants to continute, let her. If she drops out, millions of her most adament supporters won't vote for Obama and the White House will remain republican in November.

But gee whiz, can we just take a moment to outline what Hillary has to do now to win? According to recent figures, Clinton is trailing by over 140 delegates with only 10 contests remaining. As we all know, Democratic rules divide up delegates from states instead of a winner-take-all system. Which means that even if Clinton basically sweeps the rest and pulls to within 100 of Barack Obama, she would need roughly two-thirds of the remaining 330 delegates to win.

And that won't be easy, considering the Clinton campaign's latest inner meltdown of chief strategist Mark Penn stepping down (actually, probably being fired) because of conflicts of interest.

Still though, the race continues to be one red hot issue. With everything that has happened, it seemed as though momentum had swung almost completely to Obama. But take a look at a recent story on CNN.com that talked about Clinton's advisors talking about the importance of the fact she has actually won more electoral votes than Obama, if this were the general election. Scrolling down, and of course this isn't the best way to get information, but one can see that comments on the story run about half pro-Clinton/half pro-Obama.

America isn't ready to give up on Clinton just yet.