Delegate Count Matters, States Won Matters, Popular Vote Matters

While if you listen to the Clinton campaign rhetoric, you may just think that Senator Obama is in a distant second place and just hanging around like a withering Huckabee. How ironic, considering it is Senator Clinton that trails in the delegate count - depending on the news source - by at minimum 106 and likely well over 150.

Since Super Tuesday, Obama has also run away with the superdelegate endorsements.

He has also won 29 of 43 states, in addition to winning Democrats Abroad, US Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. The Clinton camp continues to say he can't win big states, but in fact he won more delegates in Texas and won the popular vote in 5 of largest 10 states to thus far have contests. Even in those other 5 "large" states, he narrowly lost to the institutional power of the Clintons. In contrast, the vast majority of states Obama has won, he has done so overwhelmingly. Thus the large delegate lead.

Finally, Senator Obama has received over 600,000 more votes. Four general elections in the last century alone have been closer than this race. Throw in Florida (where there was no campaigning - a clear Obama strength) and Michigan (where Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot), and Clinton still loses.

So, the Clintons can try to discount Obama's candidacy and his diverse wins across the country, but the facts and the math show that Democrats have spoken. Our nominee is Barack Obama.

It is time for Clinton to leave the stage and take her dirty, divisive politics with her, unless she wants to stick around, release her taxes, answer questions about illegal interaction with independent expenditures, unveil her White House calendar, discuss the bidding out of the Lincoln bedroom, and admit to the fact that she has no more foreign policy experience than a decent travel agent.

Apparently the land to first grant women's suffrage (Wyoming) and sacred ground in the Civil Rights Movement (Mississippi) are unimportant to Senator Clinton. But for Hopemongers, these are the latest states and people calling for change.