With the zenith of primary season past, it's sad for democrats to think that they don't yet have a nominee for president. Not only that, it's questionable if the party still has a frontrunner.
There is some degree of logic that says both candidates have been in the race so long that it makes little sense to drop out now. On the other hand, Clinton should have dropped out long ago, when Sen. Barack Obama was on his 10-state winning streak.
By staying in the race, Clinton is prolonging the inevitable. All the while, she's going to hurt Obama, hindering his ability to focus on the right. Their drawn-out battle for votes has gotten away from the larger issues, and is instead focusing on the negative.
Gov. Mitt Romney did the right thing by suspending his campaign. He had the interests of the party and himself in mind. Not only was he trying to put Sen. John McCain in the best position possible for the nomination, but Romney could run again in 2012. Had Romney kept going, he could have divided the Republican Party.
Post-Pennsylvania, Sen. Hillary Clinton began her campaign for the people: she wants them to believe that she actually has the popular vote. In her calculations, she's winning with Florida and Michigan, the states whose delegates were revoked for Convention rule violations. Without those states, Obama has a 500,000 vote lead, according to CNN.com.
Politics is all about perception. If Clinton says she has more votes, that affects the way people see her, and could sway potential voters her way.
Clinton needs to get a clue - right now those states, however unfairly, don't count. And they shouldn't count until there's a revote.
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