May 6th Primaries

Quite a few Republican crossover voters participated in the Democratic primary. One in 10 of the voters who cast ballots in the Democratic primary identified themselves to exit pollsters as Republicans.

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Six more contests remain. Only landslide victories would give Clinton a chance for the nomination. The race continues in West Virginia next Tuesday, where 39 delegates are undecided. A week later, Kentucky and Oregon will have 60 and 65 delegates at stake.

Contest Schedule: West Virginia (May 13), Kentucky (May 20), Oregon (May 20), Puerto Rico (June 1)., Montana (June 3), South Dakota (June 3)

"Absent some sort of miracle on May 31st, it's going to be tough for us," said a senior Clinton official who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to be frank. "We lost this thing in February. We're doing everything we can now, but it's just an uphill battle."

There are 217 pledged delegates still to be fought over and 267 super delegates yet to announce their endorsements, for a total of 494. Obama needs 183 of them. Assuming conservatively that he wins roughly 100 of the remaining pledged delegates, he needs around 80 super delegates.

Hillary Clinton, like George Bush, doesn’t have an exit strategy as the nomination seems more and more likely to be out of her reach, despite all of her desperate, underhanded and unscrupulous tactics. When the night was over, Senator Barack Obama was closer than ever to his party’s nomination.

The night’s results also counter the idiocy being pronounced so much by Clinton about Obama’s inability to “close the deal.” It is increasingly apparent that it is she who cannot “close the deal.” This was Clinton’s last chance to win a significant number of delegates. It is now mathematically impossible for Clinton to overcome via pledged delegates alone.

Some news headlines the next morning:

Toast!

Hill Needs a Miracle!

In a late-night speech, Clinton said that "it would be a little strange to have a nominee chosen by 48 states." She is still insisting on the lion’s share of delegates from Michigan and Florida, even though hers was the only name on the ballot in Michigan and neither candidate campaigned in these states.

Final delegate totals at the end of the night: Obama 1836 and Clinton 1681.

Lisa KARPOVA

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