Is it almost over?

by Stacie

Joe Klein thinks so. I don't know if I think so, but I know it needs to be. I really believe that the Clinton campaign will do anything -- anything -- to win, regardless of the damage it does to the party, to the eventual nominee's chances in November, and to the country as a whole. And for that, Hillary Clinton needs to exit the stage.

Since this is all coming down to superdelegates, they need to make their move. I don't know how it is that people are left who can't see the writing on the wall, but it's time for some interventions in the Democratic party. The primary has to end, and the nominee must begin the process of running the general election campaign. By every conceivable metric, that nominee is Barack Obama, and I don't think the delegate equation will be noticeably different on Wednesday.

Turn the lights out, Hillary. It's time to go home.

Comments

[nabalzbbfr]

If Obama is the Democrat nominee, this will spell the effective end of the two party system in the USA. The November election will resemble pretty much the Canadian election of 1993 with Obama playing the role of Campbell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election%2C_1993
The only way out of this mess is for Hillary to run a third party campaign. This of course will not help the Democrats this election cycle, but it will create a basis for a rational centrist counterweight to the GOP in the future.

[FLDem]

Stacie
I have decided that my democratic GE vote will be for Hillary. The only other question is whether I will vote for McCain if Hillary is force out of the primary prior to all the votes being counted.

This primary has really enlighten me regarding the character (or lack thereof) of some in the party who call themselves democrats. True democrats would never treat or allow a fellow democratic candidate to be savaged by the MSM and Obama supporters the way Clinton has been treated. I am truly getting more and more comfortable with voting for McCain. Great job Stacie.

[Steve Hynd]

Nabal, stop snorting the Kool Aid powder, you're supposed to drink it! The GOP itself thinks it's going to lose the White House and 8 or 9 congressional seats.

FLDem, I'll just refer you to The Economist.

Regards, C

[Americaneocon]

There's no reason to think the GOP will lose the White House:

"The poll shows McCain's appeal has grown while the Democrats' has dwindled — suggesting he may be aided by the continued scuffling between Obama and Clinton during their prolonged nomination battle."

From USA Today...

[Steve Hynd]

AN, did you stop for a second to consider what it means for later, once there's only one Dem candidate, that McCain can only break even with both Obama and Clinton right now in the midst of that scuffling?

Polls galore.

Regards, C

PS - For now, and for as long as you keep your comments on-topic and leave out personal insults, I won't extend the ban from the old site.

[Stacie Boschma]

This level of acrimony is exactly why the candidate who almost certainly can't win the nomination should step aside now. This is exactly the reason.

If Obama were trailing in delegate math and trying to engineer some superdelegate shenanigans and change the rules to create a floor fight at the convention, I would be saying the same of him. But probably much more loudly, because it would be worse for me to watch my preferred candidate flail and grasp that way.

[BJ]

Nabalzbbfr, I don't know what you're snorting, but that Campbell reference is way off. She got stuck holding the bag when the party that had spent the last 9 years led by a guy whose popularity ratings sank to single digits went into an election. Any part of that sound familiar? (She also had the poor luck to make some really stupid attacks against her main opponent's physical characteristics, plus an energized new right-wing party draining off further support.)

I did think that election may see it's repeat in the US this year, not totally given the lack of a significant third party threat, but the part of Ms Campbell will be played by McCain, if the Democrats can get their act together and start running against him as the continuation of the Bush regime.