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Originally Posted by Axeman
Yep and how many were caucuses vs primaries. Which ones were in solid red vs blue states. What happened in the swing states. What % of the voters are dems, independents, republicans.
And what will the landscape look like on March 5th. The Texas primary and Ohio primary will be interesting to see. Rhode Island is strongly Clinton right now. Vermont looks to be Obama. The caucus part of Texas should goto Obama as well. So he could lose the popular vote in the state but get a lead in the delegates from the caucus portion.
You can be as simple as saying 24 to 13 and think that tells the story but it of course doesn't. He has won 11 more states yet only leads by 100 or so pledge delegates?
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Caucuses vs Primaries doesn't matter. The reason Obama has done so well in caucuses is because he's had the money to put the organization on the ground. Hillary didn't contest the caucus states because she couldn't afford to. A win is a win. Period.
Red state and blue state doesn't matter either. If it did then they shouldn't have primaries in all of the states, they should only have primaries in the "states that matter"
The dems, independents, and republican vote proportions that you keep bringing up actually hurt your candidate. You can't win the white house without getting a majority of the independent voters in this country. You claiming that he's only won because of independent support is actually a nail in her coffin.
All of the momentum is on Obama's side right now. He's going to win Texas, he has a good chance of winning Ohio, and if she does hold on to win Ohio it will be so close that the delegate count from Ohio will be practically a split.
I really don't see how she can justify dragging it out further than that when she has no chance in catching him in either the popular vote or in the pledged delegate count....the appearance at that point would be that she's hoping the superdelegates will "steal" the nomination for her....and like I said earlier, that would ruin the democratic party forever.