Hillary Beast Still in Trouble
Hillary needed two big wins in Ohio and Texas.
by James Buchanan
Anyone watching a mainstream media news report would get the impression that Hillary Clinton pulled off some miracle on March 4th. The truth is that she is still in serious trouble. Prior to March 4th, several political pundits were saying that Hillary needed to win big in both Ohio and Texas to compete with Obama. Hillary failed to do this. She only won big in Ohio while only narrowly edging out Obama in Texas. The Democrats do not have a “winner take all” system so a narrow victory in Texas only means a few more delegates for Hillary. At best, Hillary is hanging on by her fingernails with a significant delegate deficit and no obvious way to make up the difference.
Ohio relies heavily on Diebold machines to count the vote and has a history of suspicious election results. It’s very curious that Hillary’s one strong election finish in recent weeks happened to take place in the state most likely to have Diebold-manipulated results. Texas also has a history of vote thievery that dates back to LBJ in the 1960s.
Prior to the March 4th primaries, Hillary was 90 delegates behind Obama after losing 11 states in a row to him. (One political pundit described the Hillary campaign as the political equivalent of the L.A. Clippers.) Despite all the mindless media blather about Texas and Ohio, Hillary has only picked up about 27 more delegates than Obama on March 4th and she still needs 64 more delegates to pull ahead. One big problem for Hillary is that there are no obvious pro-Hillary states coming up anytime soon. Hillary won the tiny state of Rhode Island while Obama won (by a large margin) the state of Vermont.
One news source sums up the delegate situation:
Before March 4th:
Obama……1,466 delegates
Clinton……1,376 delegates
Delegate total on March 4th:
Obama……155 = 77 + 48%(163)
Clinton……182 = 100 + 50%(163)
This is not too good for Hillary considering that Obama still has a lot of momentum on his side. He’s raising more money than Hillary, and Obama has been doing much better at picking up small and medium states, having won 11 in a row before March 4th as well as Vermont on the 4th.
If the remaining states are free of vote stealing, it seems certain Obama will continue to steamroll Hillary and clinch the nomination.