Hillary momentum is going backward. Since Tuesday, the delegate count went from Hillary plus 10

[ProSense]

to Obama plus 4:


Pledged: Obama - 1371, Hillary - 1218

With Superdelegates: Obama (210) - 1581, Hillary (242) - 1460

She is now behind more than 150 pledged delegates or more, and overall by 121.

Her win of the popular vote in TX was a close call by any stretch:

Region.....................Obama.....................Clinton.....................Obama.....................Clinton
..................... ..................... ................................................diff..........................diff
Austin.......................95,534.....................54,848.....................40,686
Houston/Galveston......89,017.....................31,935.....................57,082
North Texas..............85,365.....................31,606.....................53,759
Rural Central.............69,761.....................57,688.....................12,073
North Texas..............61,175.....................44,591.....................16,584
North Texas..............52,676.....................42,207.....................10,469
East-Central.............51,512.....................48,414.......................3,098
Houston/Galveston....50,413.....................42,107........................8,306
Houston/Galveston....49,872.....................30,118......................19,754
East-Central.............47,150.....................52,428................................... .................5,278
East........................44,565.....................44,098.........................467
Houston/Galveston…..43,497.....................37,261.......................6,236
North Texas.............43,379.....................46,302........................... ..........................2,923
North Texas.............42,562.....................37,842.......................4,720
North Texas.............41,739.....................31,393.....................10,346
East.......................40,234.....................47,887......................................................7,653
Houston/Galveston....39,310.....................44,689...................…................................5,379
East......................35,742.....................50,423................…......... .........................14,681
Border/South...........35,526.....................82,096..................…................................46,570
Border/South...........33,968.....................55,439..................…................................21,471
East......................31,904.....................54,209................…......... .........................22,305
Border/South............31,360.....................53,442................…......... .......................22,082
Border/South............29,750.....................68,380..................…......... .....................38,630
Rural Central............29,708.....................39,336................…...................................9,628
Rural Central............29,579.....................33,629........................... .........................4,050
Border/South............29,085.....................68,039........................... .......................38,954
West Texas…...........27,400.....................45,513..................…......... ......................18,113
West Texas..............26,356.....................40,709........................... .......................14,353
Border/South............25,089.....................61,782........................... ........................36,693
Houston/Galveston...19,736.....................35,828........................... .........................16,092
West Texas.............16,962.....................26,392..................…......... ........................9,430
.........................1,349,926................1,440,631..................243,580......................334,285

Total:..................................2,790,557........................... .....diff:...............90,705

More on Texas and Obama's momentum.

Despite what happens in FL and MI, Hillary's only path to the nomination is to peel off Obama's pledged delegates. Essentially, cheating the system is her only option.

[Colobo]

1. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Hillary Clinton.

That's what it's gonna be, folks.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. President Obama and Senator Clinton

I'm rejecting Clinton for VP for many, many reasons, and one of them being the HORRIBLE candidate I've ever seen.

Hawkeye-X

[mahina]

9. Word.

What strength would she add?
Shades of LBJ. Pass.

[mod mom]

10. I agree. I think there would be a lot of undermining of the Obama presidency

and can't imagine that Sen Obama would want Bill lurking over every decision-plus I don't trust bfee.

[Kittycat]

11. She would do nothing but undermine him, and set him up.

[Andy823]

16. I am with you!

Senator Clinton, not VP Clinton! What she has done would hurth Obama if she were the VP. I can see the adds now from the republicans using all her "fear and smear" attacks on Obama to show that even his VP doesn't think he is qualified to be president! It would also bring out every republican in the country to vote agains a ticket with her on it.

No, Hillary has made her bed, and putting her on the ticket would only put McCain in the whitehouse!

[Cha]

18. I'm with you Hawkeye...clinton has

not only cheated to be as far as she is but she's cheated herself out of the privlege of being accepted by anyone with honor.

[Growler]

44. Agreed

[johnnydrama]

27. Hillary will be a fantastic senator

When she's not deciding how each vote will effect her future Presidential run.

[Diane R]

34. President Obama, private citizen Clinton.

[surfin]

37. I am a very strong Obama supporter but will not voter for them

We need to weed out the clinton bushes from the white house.

She adds nothing to the ticket and he would be selling out.

He would also be in danger of her setting up for impeachment

[Zachstar]

4. HELL NO!! Katzenkavalier!!

And that is also an insult to Clinton Supporters so I ask you to STOP...

The candidates are too far from each other to become a VP. Doing so will be viewed as betrayal and will cost them big come November.

The VP needs to be Edwards EDWARDS!!!

[Hawkeye-X]

6. I wholeheartedly support Edwards for VP

He deserves another shot - this time, he knows EXACTLY what he's talking about. In '04, he was unsure of himself...

Hawkeye-X

[roguevalley]

22. what could she bring to the table? The south? The west? I doubt

that this could be done. Two people from the East or near East.

[Gore1FL]

29. Obama /Sebelius makes a much better ticket

[bilgewaterbill]

31. Vice-PresidentS Clinton.

That's why it won't happen.

[superkia]

36. I hope you are wrong, she has been so destructive to the party...

during this campaign. I try to make sure my television is never near a entertainment news channel when my children are around, I don't want them to see how they should act if they want to be president. I think Clintons style of politics is disgusting and I don't understand why anyone accepts that shit, this is our future, not some survivor episode where anything goes to win. Hey world, look at one of our powerful politicians trying to be the first woman president, isn't she showing herself well!

[alteredstate]

39. You're joking, right?

[JackORoses]

43. I reject this. Not after what she has done.

McCain could possibly even win against that ticket by showing Hillary's attacks on Obama repeatedly.

[NightWatcher]

2. now THAT'S momentum

:rofl:

[Hawkeye-X]

5. As I aptly described earlier in the week.

Hillary hitting the bricks, and then moving backwards, then hitting the bricks again.....

[jefferson_dem]

7. Look at the supers! She's up by a measly 32!

I could have sworn it was 39 just yesterday.

Thanks for posting.

[NightWatcher]

8. wait till the SD bomb goes off

I count about 44 others waiting to drop for him

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. He lost those primary elections. He didn't win them.

What else can you say?

[dionysus]

14. that she's still losing?

:shrug:

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. Obama just lost 3 out of 4 & spent your money doing it.

[dionysus]

19. 2 out of 4, he'll get the most delegates in texas....

[The_Casual_Observer]

24. He lost the primary after spending 3-1. Obama lost it's official.

[Colobo]

28. Delegates in Texas: Obama-98, Clinton-95. He won. She lost.

[dionysus]

33. there seems to be a deep well of denial for some...

[lmbradford]

35. its called the TX two=step for a reason....

there are two steps. first step=clinton second step=obama by more

Obama wins more overall delegates in TX

[SoCalDem]

42. just this

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

13. She's sustained her momentum. IF you're having to look in the past...

for traces of Barack's momentum...well, that's not momentum.

Momentum is about moving forward, not looking backward.

[dionysus]

15. LOLOLOLOL

so continuing to fall behind in delegates is momentum?

more like nomentum..... :rofl:

[AtomicKitten]

20. I guess it just depends on which way you're facing.

[dionysus]

21. .....

can you please clean the beer from my monitor and keyboard now.... :spray:

[AtomicKitten]

25. *

[Gore1FL]

30. Or Joementum...

remember that?

[dionysus]

23. but it seems he looks forward to getting more delegates every day :)

[PseudoIntellect]

26. Doesn't it seem like...

Hillary's strategy is not to win delegates anymore, but instead to pretend she has momentum and ignore the math, hoping to get a lot of superdelegates which are currently going at a rate of 4:1 for Obama?

[Gore1FL]

32. it would appear so

Maybe she plans to steal their calculators.

If Hillary did have momentum left, it'll end tomorrow and reverse on Tuesday. He will likely change the net difference by 5-10 more delegates with those two "unimportant" states.

[surfin]

38. He also picked up I think 8 today from California

Yahoo!

[ProSense]

46. That included a drop in Hillary's popular vote margin to under 9% n/t

[Windex]

40. Do we know anything about Edwards delegates?

How many does he have or who he is giving them to?

[bvar22]

41. YAY!!! HILLMENTUM !!!!

Hillmentum


Hillary can still WIN if nobody counts the delegates!

[Catherina]

45. Be still my beating heart!

:bounce:

[ProSense]

47. Every perceived advantage Hillary has comes from spin.

The big-state myth debunked:

State................Obama..............Clinton

California...........2,126,000..........2,553,000

Texas ..............1,358,000..........1,459,000

New York.............698,000..........1,003,000

Illinois...............1,302,000............662,000

Ohio...................982,000..........1,212,000

Georgia...............704,000.............330,000

New Jersey..........492,000.............603,000

Virginia...............627,000.............350,000

Washington.........354,000.............316,000


Total................8,643,000 ........8,487,000

On the popular vote, Obama by more than 150,000 votes.

link

[ProSense]

48. Pennsylvania and North Carolina

Pennsylvania and North Carolina

Clinton's campaigning there, starting today, is designed in part to cast it as the big showdown that sould define the next six weeks; Obama would prefer the state have less emphasis.

I'd meant to link this Friday, but First Read's point here is fair:

Speaking of upcoming contests, the press has completely bought into Pennsylvania as the next big contest. But there's another very large delegate prize two weeks later -- North Carolina. What's interesting about the two states is that one is a Clinton stronghold (PA) and one is an Obama stronghold (NC). Both campaigns are trying to downplay the other state, but shouldn’t we be judging the two together? Who performs better on the other's turf?

That's because the MSM is busy spinning Hillary's negative momentum as a victory.