It's official, Barack Obama now leads in the popular vote, pledged delegates, and states. It no longer matters whether she promises ponies for every household or turns on the waterworks again, Hillary Clinton won't be able to overtake Obama’s lead. The "Hail Mary" play that is her campaign has fallen short.
The only question remaining is when she'll finally admit it.
Allahpundit sums up last night's drubbing:
Slate’s keeping an eye on RCP’s running popular-vote totals and notes that not only will Obama widen his delegate margin tonight, he’ll erase the PV gains she made in Pennsylvania. In fact, as of this moment, even if Florida and Michigan are counted RCP gives her a popular vote lead of just 3,000+ votes — a margin of less than one-tenth of one percent. And that’s assuming that the popular vote totals from the caucuses in Iowa, Washington, Maine, and Nevada (which weren’t reported) aren’t counted at all. If you estimate for those states, he ends up with a lead of more than 100,000. Which means she has nothing left to commend her to the supers except an electabilty argument unsupported by a single key metric or even circumstantial evidence that Pastorgate has done Obama grievous damage at the polls. Are they going to take the nomination from the first serious black candidate for president without any compelling data to hang their decision on? Not a chance. It’s over. Let’s move on.Knowing how both Clintons are such megalomaniacs, we probably won't see an end to this any time soon.
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