Hillary Now Trails Obama by 126 Delegates
Pennsylvania gives Hillary a net gain of only 16 Delegates.
by Charles Coughlin
Despite torturing the American public for months, pretending the Hillary campaign still stood a chance, the big Pennsylvania primary has resulted in a tiny sixteen delegate gain for Hillary over Obama. The final election results give Hillary only a 9.2% single digit victory over Obama falling far short of the large double digit victory she desperately needed. An AFP article reports “With 78 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was said to be leading by 10 percent with 55 percent of the vote to 45 for Obama in her quest to be America’s first woman president…. Obama, 46, had already downplayed any likelihood that he could win in Pennsylvania, but pointed out that he had whittled down her lead in most polls from 20 points… With neither candidate set to reach the 2,025 pledged delegates needed to win the nomination outright, Clinton was seeking to make her case to Democratic superdelegates, the top party officials who will effectively crown the nominee at the party’s August convention. She is trailing Obama in the total number of nominating contests won, pledged delegates apportioned in those showdowns, the popular vote, and the multi-million-dollar campaign financing race. And her victory in Pennsylvania will not do much to cut into her rival’s delegate lead, as the state’s 158 delegates will be doled out under the Democratic complex system of proportional representation. Obama leads by 1,650 total delegates to Clinton’s 1,508, according to independent website RealClearPolitics.com.”
With 98 percent of the vote in, MSNBC is showing Hillary holding onto a ten percent lead. If the delegates from Pennsylvania are split proportionally, Hillary will only get 16 more delegates than Obama. Why is the media wasting time giving this woman any media coverage? She has no real chance of pulling ahead of Obama.
According to RealClearPolitics.com Obama was leading Hillary by 142 delegates prior to Pennsylvania, and now his lead will be 126 delegates. The next big states coming up are North Carolina (with a large Black Democrat population) and Indiana. Hillary is certain to lose by a landslide in North Carolina, and there are no big states favorable to her remaining. Add to this, Obama’s large campaign chest compared to Hillary’s debt-ridden campaign, and Obama should be increasing his delegate lead in the upcoming states.
Hillary has no realistic chance of winning unless she has some serious blackmail information on the superdelegates. Even then, no reasonable person is going to award Hillary the nomination when she is trailing Obama by over 100 delegates and trailing badly in the popular vote too.
Perhaps the best course of action for ordinary Americans sick of the Hilla-Monster would be to just change the channel whenever some lying news pundit starts pretending that Hillary still has a chance. Hillary has been hopelessly behind Obama since January. To put a few extra nails in Hillary’s political coffin, Obama has been raising a lot more money than her in recent months. A recent news article reports that Obama has $43 million in the bank while Hillary has only $9.5 million in the bank and $10 million in debt.