The downside is that there are fewer states left to vote.

Saying that she's lost groung pop vote-wise, that it is over.

I think one fact you failed to take into account is that by and large, the working-class voters we're talking about don't really care what the media has to say.  That's why they supported Bill Clinton through his impeachment even as the media was telling them it was the worst scandal ever.  They're not going to support or not support a candidate just because the media tells them to, which kind of renders the argument null and void.

And for that, I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this primary.  I'm done.  Sick of them to the core.  I will no longer suffer though crappy candidates and over-blown egos of Party officials passing themselves off as righteous proletariats (remember the pigs in "Animal Farm").  

Here's the math.  If Obama is the nominee, McCain will be President of the United States.  Obama has not won ONE state that will go Democratic in November.  

If Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee, I plan to take a long vacation until November at which time I will do my patriotic duty and show up to vote for him.

I'm one of those 50+ white women, with education and a white-collar job, married and living a pretty good life.  Someone who raised her children to be tolerant and open-minded and compassionate.  Someone who has seen enough to be able to appreciate what an unbelievable opportunity we had to not just make history with a female or black candidate, but to change the path for so many people.

What angers and saddens me is knowing that people like me didn't kill that dream, and Hillary didn't kill that dream - people like Barack Obama, who can't figure out who the heck he is, and people like Howard Dean and Donna Brazile and DAvid Axelrod killed it.  People who can't see the forest for the trees killed it.

Oh, sure, Barack Obama may, if he's the nominee, realize his own personal dream - but he will have done it at my expense and your expense, at the expense of the Democratic party, and I am not going to forgive him for it.  

Same reason they didn't vote for Kerry, Mondale, and all the rest. They don't think the Dem candidates understand and address their concerns.

He has to leave the racially divisive and racially separatist Trinity United Church Of Christ, because there is no way in hell the President Of The United States should be an active member of a place like that. and

He has to apologize to Hillary Clinton for allowing her to be demonized as a racist by his followers and surrogates.

Do you expect Hillary to beat McCain with whites by 61-37 or 60-40?

We can talk about electability all night long.  But when we have the party split between 2 distinct groups it is pretty easy to argue that the other is unelectable without the other candidate's demographic groups.

No Democrat can win without blue collar whites.  No Democrat can win without African-Americans.  

Next to judges though, academics do seem to get the most crap. Like in Cambodia when they killed everyone who wore glasses first.

He improved his #s among white women, while she lost even more AA votes.

What are the numbers of new Democrats in swing states that voted for Obama vs. Clinton? My guess is that those numbers are people who have been Independents who have voted Democrat and the few "liberal" Republican hold-outs who have voted Democrat.

If that's the case, then I think we're in some trouble.

I have some serious 1972 nightmares in my future. I turned 2 in November of 1972.

The rat-you-know-what has only just begun.

I want Hillary to stick it out because you've got to have somebody in there to catch the fumble.