Originally Posted by itsmeeeeeee

i find it fascinating that now, with hillary tanking, that some people are prematurely focusing on and predicting a disaster that may never materialize, yet alone, even be an issue a week or two, maybe a month, from now.

if the country continues to swing so dramatically toward one candidate, those super delegates would indeed be suicidal if they even attempted to throw the nomination to the candidate who so obviously LOST the popular vote in the primary process.

lest we forget that for years and years, everyone, all over the country has been bitching about the unfairness of a process in which a couple of early, extremely privileged, states were consistently allowed to severely limit the choices in candidate the rest of america had - resulting repeatedly in the coronation of extremely weak candidates.

thanks to super tuesday, the new system - for the first time in anyone's memory - the rest of the county is FINALLY being allowed to weigh in on what is arguably the most important part of the election process... who they want to be the nominee.

before this NEW primary process began, the old school's process of the coronation was still in place - and the establishment's candidate of choice was clearly hillary clinton. she was way ahead in every poll, and the pundants all predicted it was, indeed, hers to lose.

but then something remarkable happened.

the primaries began and the PEOPLE started to VOTE!

almost IMMEDIATELY in the primary process the presumptive queen's front runner status became challenged. and as the first super tuesday drew closer, even the polls revealed that the coronation of hillary clinton was extremely premature.

so - what the hell happened?

was hillary EVER that popular, or were those polls and coronation predictions simply made soooo early that they were basically flawed, because the average american hadn't yet taken the time to start thinking about, let alone research their options?

while the political pundants we love to hate (justifiably) do everything in their power to whip up this super delegate / dead heat drama and controversy... obama is clearly vexing the presumptive queen's followers and shocking the pundants by taking the country by storm by overwhelmingly emphatic margins. clinton is struggling now to even take states she was favored in just two weeks ago.


REALITY PILL:

THE LAST TIME I LOOKED AT THE CALENDAR IT WAS STILL JUST EARLY FEBRUARY!

with obama now quickly catching up to and obviously overtaking clinton in both delegates and a momentum that only appears to be accelerating exponentially, isn't the truth, in fact, looking more and more every day that it's less and less likely these candidates will remain locked in a dead heat much longer? and isn't it more and more likely that this nightmare scenario of the race remaining tied in a dead heat a month from now, let alone at the time of the convention, is in reality - just unnecessary hysterics?

as of last night, among PLEDGED (determined with votes) delegates, obama has taken a 30 point lead - 918 to 885, with 40 some delegates left to be assigned from counties with split districts in yesterday's caucuses. it's conceivable that by tomorrow, this lead very well could expand to 60 or 70 delegates.

so LET'S look ahead. but let's do it realistically. the clinton campaign has already conceded that they may very well not see another primary victory till march third. if that's the case - this dead heat looks to be short lived..

for the first time voters are getting the opportunity to say "nuh uh! not so fast!" and maybe all this panic over a dead heat going all the way to the convention, and super delegates is only shared by the media pundunts desperately attempting to MAKE a story - and the supporters of a candidate who's suddenly getting tromped!

i doubt like hell that this discussion will even be a issue a month from now if, in fact, obama continues to his impressive march to the convention to make another speech. this time, the acceptance speech for his parties nomination to be the next president of the united states!