Chillable Hours

Finally.

Finally.

It seems as if the race for the Democratic nomination is finally very, very close to ending. A recent article by Amie Parnes and Charles Mahtesian on Politico.com notes that “the results of Tuesday’s South Dakota and Montana primaries will have a domino effect on uncommitted superdelegates – quite possibly clinching the nomination for Barack Obama” (a link to the article is below).

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We believe that Tuesday’s primaries will not only have a “domino effect on uncommitted superdelegates,” but will actually result in an avalanche of commitments that will force Hillary to bow out of the race. And while a Hillary spokesman insists that she is not dropping out Tuesday - we think that this guy may be somewhat uniformed or that Hillary will drop out on Wednesday after a night of losing the final primaries and a morning of seeing the avalanche of superdelegates flock to Senator Obama. Even though Hillary has been ignoring the math for quite some time now, once the supers begin to very publicly show that Hillary has absolutely no legitimate shot at even approaching Senator Obama in the race, we think that Hillary will exit while she still has the chance to make a (somewhat) dignified retreat.

And while it seems as if Hillary is finally getting close to admitting defeat, the team at Chillable Hours feels as if the race has been over for quite some time and that a large number of political-types (including a large number of them in the media) have known this for weeks. I mean, we are not a bunch of crazed conspiracy theorists, but we hardly thought that the mainstream media would pass up the chance to act as if there was anything other than an unbelievably close race that must be followed everyday to make sure we know who the Democratic nominee will be! How else were they going to fill thousands of hours of airtime with professors and experts and authors and former politicians and other people smarter than us give amazingly similar (and realistic looking) arguments for how and why Hillary could and could not win.

Senator Obama has had a commanding lead for quite a number of weeks now and the hard numbers have supported this for many weeks. While they have been forced to respond to Hillary’s attacks, we think that the Obama team has known that they had this one locked-up for a while now.

Now we just have to wait and see if the Democratic Party will have enough time to come together and create a unified front that is capable of winning in November. We do think that this story has some legs and are excited about the prospect of finally getting away from thousands of stories about a Democratic race that has been over for weeks.

June 3rd, 2008 Posted by admin | Blog | 3 comments