The say “it ain’t over til the fat lady sings.” She is not singing yet, but she is tuning up. Senator Barack Obama won a strong victory in the North Carolina primary and narrowly missed taking Indiana also. And Senator Hillary Clinton needed to win big in both states to even have a chance to capture the Democratic nomination for president. Using a boxing analogy, she is on the ropes and her opponent is pounding her, and the people in her corner are yelling for her to go down. Somebody in her corner is going to have to throw in the towel. Well it seems that her opponent, Senator Obama has a pretty good chin too. She and the media threw every thing they could at him and he can say the same thing Celie said in The Color Purple. “I’m still here.”
Senator Obama called his North Carolina primary win on Tuesday a victory against the "politics of division and the politics of distraction." He told North Carolina supporters in Raleigh that he was able to overcome negative politicking that is all about scoring points and not about solving problems. With his wife Michelle looking on, Obama savored his victory in North Carolina and called attention to claims by the Clinton campaign that the North Carolina race would be a "game-changer." "But today, what North Carolina decided is that the only game that needs changing is the one in Washington, DC,” he told the roaring crowd.
He left Senator Clinton with fast-dwindling chances to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination after beating her in North Carolina and falling just short in an Indiana cliffhanger. He is less than 200 delegates away from the 2025 needed to win the nomination and his campaign dropped broad hints it was time for the 270 remaining undeclared superdelegates to get off the fence and settle the nomination. Senator Obama won at least 94 delegates and Senator Clinton at least 75 in the two states combined, with 18 still to be divided between the two candidates. His delegate total reached 1840.5 to 1,684. Obama won North Carolina 56-42, with returns from 99 percent of precincts. Clinton won Indiana 51-49.
And the races still ahead: 28 delegates at stake in West Virginia in a week; 103 delegates up for grabs a week later in Kentucky and Oregon; 55 in Puerto Rico on June 1; 31 in Montana and South Dakota on June 3. She is favored to win West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico and he is favored to win Oregon, Montana and South Dakota.
Senator Clinton fell short of the Indiana blowout and the North Carolina upset she hoped for that might have jarred superdelegates into her camp in a big way. They have continued trickling toward Senator Obama despite the fallout over his former pastor's racially remarks and her win in Pennsylvania two weeks ago.
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