
1. I would like for Hillary’s loved ones to call a psychiatrist and have that psychiatrist on hand when they break the news that she has lost. Apparently she has not yet noticed.
2. I would like for the Super Delegates to FORCE her hand by coming together and standing behind Obama. In fact, Sen. George McGovern already has taken the lead there:
Desperately trying to convince Democrats that she still has a chance of returning to the White House, Sen. Hillary Clinton headed to West Virginia Wednesday to continue her presidential campaign.
Sen. Hillary Clinton says it’s “full speed on to the White House” despite Tuesday’s results.
Her rival, Sen. Barack Obama, took a major step to securing his party’s presidential nomination Tuesday when he decisively beat Clinton by 14 percentage points in North Carolina, 56 percent to 42 percent, with 99 percent of the precincts reporting.
Clinton narrowly defeated Obama 51 percent to 49 percent in Indiana with 99 percent of the precincts reporting. The Clinton campaign was hoping for a larger win in Indiana to boost its argument that she is the better general election candidate.
Obama’s victory in North Carolina and Clinton’s narrow win in Indiana led one of Clinton’s most prominent backers, Sen. George McGovern, to switch his support from Clinton to Obama, Clinton campaign sources said.
The Democratic presidential nominee in 1972 also said he urged Clinton to drop out of the race, saying it was virtually impossible for her to win the nomination.
“It certainly was not out of any less respect for Senator Clinton,” McGovern told CNN. “I think she has waged a really courageous and valiant campaign. She will have my affection and admiration for all of my days.”
“But I think mathematically the race is all but won by Barack Obama and the time has come for all of us to unite and get ready for the general election in the fall,” he said.
Both Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, campaigned for McGovern in Texas when both were law school students at Yale.
The most important outcome of Tuesday’s primaries may be that Obama widened his lead over Clinton in the crucial delegate race. The senator from Illinois won a majority of the 187 delegates at stake Tuesday, allowing him to up his total delegate count to 1,836, CNN estimates, a 155 delegate lead over Clinton.
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By: Lynn Green
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