If voters in Oregon and Kentucky show their good sense and pay no attention to the pundits, Hillary can still win the nomination; and she can lead the Democratic Party to victory in November!  Despite every effort by the Obama campaign and the media to push Hillary out of this race, the people are not flocking to Obama.  In fact, more and more of them are turning towards Hillary!

In spite of all his money, all of his endorsements, and all of his "hope", Obama cannot "close the deal" with long-time Democrats.

In spite of all the pressure for her to quit, all the media claims that she cannot win, and all the vicious attacks on her character and her family, according to ABC News, Hillary now holds the lead in the popular vote, and she has also moved ahead of Obama in the most recent daily Gallup Poll.

[editor's note, by Clarkin08] I am posing a serious question here, and in the early comments have received few thoughtful answers, and none that are directly pertinent. Please ignore them. If you can think of any good reason for the Democratic party to nominate any candidate with fewer than 2,209 delegates supporting them, I would like to know what that is.

2024.5 delegates needed to nominate.  That's the Obama line.  It's also the current DNC line, I think.  Most everyone in the Republican owned media is spouting the same line.  The trouble is, that's significantly less than half the delegates that States and Territories will send to the Democratic National Convention.  So, I'm wondering why anyone thinks it's such a great idea, and I hope those of you who do can clear this up for me.

I've been a Democrat for a very long time, and thus far I don't believe I've ever seen such a risky idea being pushed so hard by so many of my fellow Democrats.  

As I recall (and I may be wrong about this), way back at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, John Kennedy just barely won the party nomination at the end of the third roll call when Wyoming cast its votes for him. In other words, after a very hard and prolonged fight on the floor of the convention, he was nominated by the slimmest of party majorities, just barely more than half the delegates sent to the convention.  He agreed to put Lyndon Johnson on the ticket to appeal to southern Democrats and unify the party.  That November,  these two awesome Democratic Party candidates together managed to eke out the slimmest general election victory in history against a Republican that few Democrats thought fit to be President. And some Republicans still maintain that they won it only because Richard Daley got a fair number of dead people to vote for the brilliant, charming young Irish Catholic war hero from Massachusetts with the beautiful young wife and family.  Now, just imagine how many more dead people Mayor Daley (and other mayors all around the USA) might have needed to get to vote for JFK if the Democratic Party had stupidly nominated JFK with only about 45% of its delegates voting for him at the Convention.

OK.  I know we weren't all flower-children back in the 60s and early 70s.  But there is so much of that Woodstock/"make love-not war" driven imagery, that it's possible some of our kids either imagine that we were or wish that we had been....I'll come back to this.  But first, the prequel:

My parents both died in the early 60s, so they never got to see me with my long hair, worn-out jeans, torn t-shirt, and "granny" glasses.  However, I have no doubt that if they had, they would have wondered what I'd been smoking (to say the least)!  :)  And if they had lived to hear about me participating in anti-war demonstrations, I figure they would have concluded that I'd temporarily gone out of my mind, like so many of those other "crazy hippies".  My Dad, I'm pretty sure, would have had one of those bumper stickers that said, "If you don't like cops, next time you're in trouble, call a hippie." Of course, I never saw myself as a hippie.  I saw myself as a principled anti-war activist.  But that distinction probably wouldn't even "compute" for my Dad, who likely would have figured one was as mis-guided as the other.

So, here's my confession, all these years later.  When it comes to my reaction to the Obama crusade, I'm starting to realize that I have something in common with my parents.  I've spent lots of time wondering how so many young people (and even a few old people) could have become so irrational that they actually believe Senator Obama can win a big victory next November.