Politics: United States Democratic Primary

[butterfly]

So, the total number number of delegates needed to win the nomination is 2,025, yes? That's the lowest number for a majority. Obama is currently leading Clinton by 143 delegates, with his total number at 1,631 and hers at 1,488. That's... not insurmountable by any means. Certainly not a good reason for her to curl up and go home.

Pennsylvia's primary is on the twenty-second of this month. Then Indiana and North Carolina on the 6th. West Virginia on the 13th and, finally, the 20th of May, Oregon gets to vote (along with Kentucky). The fact that my primary is so far away is a source of frustration to me.

I like Clinton's health care plan. When she and Obama talk specifics about issues and votes, I tend to find myself agreeing with her more often than with him when they differ (many times, they don't). Of course, in any race between Obama and McCain, Obama would get my vote in a heartbeat, but between him and Clinton... yes, I plan to vote for her.

The world that we live in is not post-racism or post-sexism (or, for that matter, post-classism and it certainly isn't post-homophobia). Either Clinton or Obama as our President will be a major step forward for this country. I'll be proud to call either of them my President.

Comments

[fanaddict.livejournal.com]

Of course the Rep will be as hard as Clinton. My point is that by continuing in the race at this point, Clinton is forcing Obama to be more reactive to her and this creates more opportunities for him to mess up in some way - which is her only hope right now. The problem is, it's mostly small missteps that don't help her enough but cumulatively lower the voters' regard for Obama enough to help McCain.

Now you are going to say - he would mess up with McCain too as the nominee. And of course that's true - but McCain would have to be reactive right back to Obama's criticisms of his plans, etc and that gives McCain more chance to misstep as well. They would be on an even playing ground. Right now McCain is coasting because Clinton is doing what he would otherwise have to do - mess up Obama. So this whole thing is helping McCain by keeping him clean while dragging Obama through the mud when, if Clinton dropped out, they would both be muddied. At this point despite my preference for her, I can't see how her staying in the race beyond PA is anything other than detrimental. To each her own though.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I would simply like the chance to vote for the person that I would most like to see in the Oval Office.