Obama is sitting about 660 Delegates from Securing the Nomination

[tekisui]

If he wins the remaining delegates, even by small margins, 52-56%, he will get to the magic number of 2,025 by the Convention. This is including his current SuperD's, but not requiring anymore that will certainly join him.

I don't think we will face a brokered Convention, anymore. Hillary needs to win by large margins, 65+%, and pick up nearly all of the remaining SuperD's.

We are looking towards a clean win for our future Nominee, Barack Obama.

[meow mix]

1. this is exactly why hilary needs to concede without doing more damage to the party

shes only hurting us against mccain at this point

[Justyce]

4. Good grief. Let the other states vote.

And I'd be saying the same no matter who was ahead at this point. No one needs to concede yet -- Texas and Ohio haven't even voted. A close primary isn't going to hurt us in the GE, just wait until the republican attack machine gets ahold of our nominee once it's decided. They're chomping at the bit -- I say the longer we put that off, the better.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. I don't see any evidence that this is doing any damage to the party...

...yet. If it comes down to arguing over superdelegates, then you may have a point. But let's just suppose for a moment that Obama does win cleanly - no brokered convention, no wrangling over delegates. How will the current situation have hurt the party? If anything, I'd much rather he have the chance to stand up to these sorts of attacks in the primaries, because it's at least a small taste of the crap he's going to face from the wingnuts in the general.

As for this nonsense of the party being torn asunder by this campaign, it's just bunk. It's a stupid media narrative that the Republicans are pushing to try to make us look weak. We have two strong candidates, with strong, pro-active supporters who are racking up truly massive turnout in the primaries. Both of them, not just Obama. The fact that a lot of people have strong opinions in favor of their preferred candidate does not mean the party is being wrecked. It does not mean we are doomed in the general. We have a freakin' bounty of good choices, good demographics, good turnout, and good message compared to 2004.

[meow mix]

7. now we have the winner having to defend against 2 money machines...

its hurting us. in multiple ways including finances

[susankh4]

10. Obama is not short on money....

he has enough to hire college students to campaign for him.

The party is behind him and he will be fine.

Let the voters decide! And let McCain sweat it out as to who he will ultimately go up against.

Hillary will concede if and when the time is right.

And then she will accept the VP position.

[Vinca]

2. That occurred to me, too, and I expect now that he's added 2 more wins

to the column he'll be getting more endorsements.

[high density]

3. Clinton has quickly turned into our Mike Huckabee

After last night it seems she's just hanging around because she wants her voice heard. Obama has to defend himself now against both the Clinton campaign desperately clawing at anything to survive and McCain starting his attack machine. The math just does not work out for Clinton unless the Obama campaign does something amazingly bad.

[Bullet1987]

5. If it gets too nasty...now that Obama is being attacked by McCain

many in the DNC won't like it because they'll see her as hurting the Dems down the road. Which is why the Clinton campaign is meeting.

[yourguide]

8. Apparently...

Howard Finemann said last night that the Hillary camp felt the attacks HELPED her because the point spread was less than most of the other blow outs. Sounds to me like they plan to continue going negative.

[Independent-Voter]

9. Hillary is going to have to have 30-35% swings to pull this off

Obama's been winning by 10-15% in every race as of late, and HRC needs to win by at least 20% just to pull even. Folks, it ain't going to happen unless somebody's got video of Obama blowing goats on the Washington Green.

[harun]

11. Her staying in the race is keeping a lot of people motivated

in the remaining states to learn who Obama is, get excited about him, and vote for him. I think this may actually help in Nov but I am afraid some of the Hillary supporters may end up being pissed. They still won't vote for McCain though.