Letters to the Editor
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It is over - nobody wins
The reality is that 2,025 delegates are required to get the nomination, and neither candidate will be able to do that based on the delegates remaining. The "winner takes all" Republican primaries allowed McCain to emerge as the winner without a painful three-way with Romney and Huckabee. Obama would need to receive over 97% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination and Clinton requires 100%.
Neither scenario is likely, unless my math is wrong and someone please correct me if so.
So all this primary bantering is useless, the most likely outcome is a democratic convention with no one acheiving 2,025 delegates and a virtual tie in delegates. It would be easy to cast the Democratic convention then as the "somewhere over the Rainbow" crowd against the "establishment wicked witch of the east" crowd - but I hope cooler heads prevail - it's about the electoral college. Which candidate is best positioned to beat McCain in the Electoral college. Period. Everything else is bull-doo-doo.