Obama sweeps North Carolina, clinches Nomination

[D3V]

Obama sweeps N.C.; Clinton ekes out Indiana

[qoute]Final votes counted in Indiana's Lake County; Obama dominates

Clinton wins squeaker in Indiana; Obama cruises in North Carolina

Obama says he does not believe his party is "inalterably divided"

187 delegates were at stake in Tuesday's primaries[/quote]


Total delegate counts


Obama's delegates.

Super: 1,584
Pledged: 252

Clinton's delegates.

Super: 1,415
Pledged: 266


Indiana Totals

Clinton 51%
Obama 49%


North Carolina Totals

Obama 56%
Clinton 42%

Here is the speech after the Primary

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-oMjmwiUA

A bunch of the old, but very shortly here Obama can announce his VP and start taking on McCain without HillBill dominating the negativity.

[Thanatos]

I feel ashamed to live in a pro-Hillary state. But we've backed Bush the past 8 years so I can't say this surprises me.

[D3V]

As sad as it is, I have family that lives there.. they, along with Florida are some of the lower educated states so supporting morons is nothing new.

[Lenny]

Yay! Come on Obama!

The BBC (well, Associated Press figures really) gives slightly different figures for Super Delegates:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7229830.stm

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/Lenny1882/Clipboard02-3.jpg

[D3V]

They may have updated this morning, Clinton may have gained more, I'm not sure.

[!King_Amazon!]

I know a couple have switched sides.

Hillary has no chance in hell. She's still saying she's going to stick with it until the end. The only way this primary is going to end before the convention is if the rest of the super delegates pick a side. They need to stop sitting on the fence and pick one. Preferably Obama, so we can start working on getting the White House.

[D3V]

I was hearing some theories on the news last night of why she's exactly staying in the race.

One was there is this insurmountable debt that the Clinton campaign has come under (now learning she has spent another 6.5million in addition to her own 5 million last month).. which is pathetic. She's got lots of Lobyyists that I'm sure she's made deals with that were counting on her to win this nom, and now that she isn't and i'm positive Obama will not ask her to be a running mate, she's got some money to come up with, quickly

And two, she's wanting to set the stage for the next presidency, which shouldn't be worth much considering if Obama wins the nod and does a decent job at all he will be hailed and be wanted kept in the white house.

Also, google Peter Paul, there are some interesting videos floating around on YouTube that the media could pick up, at any day.

[!King_Amazon!]

Well, I would tend to believe the debt story more than the "setting up for the next election" story. If she wanted to have a chance in any future election, she wouldn't be ripping the democratic party apart right now. I think she's losing more and more respect the longer she stays in. I would respect her a lot if she bowed out now and supported Obama so that we can work on beating the Republicans this time around. Right now she just looks like a selfish brat.

[Willkillforfood]

Agreed. She knows she's too old and if she doesn't get it now she doesn't have a chance in hell. But ...I'm sorry, but she just isn't the woman for the job if you ask me. She goes against all economists and reason (as is McCain who is supposed to be of the businessman's party.) Obama has a good chance.