Hillary vowed to stay in race after her 41 point victory in West Virginia yesterday. She has toned down her remarks on Obama considerably though. She even went so far as to tell her supporters that if Obama is the nominee they should go for him rather than McCain. That is actually a good step in unifying the party if in fact Obama does become the nominee and would help keep her in good standing within the party.
She is still in the running even though the math works against her with Democratic rules put in place. Her supporters have said that she would already be the nominee if the Democrats used the Republican system of picking delegates rather than the distribution system used by the Democrats.
She is right since she has won most of the big states. She would have about 2,300 delegates at this point if that was the case. That is also the way the general election will be run in the fall.
However she and her husband have been leaders within the Democratic party for almost 16 years and if they had a problem with the system they should have changed it. No one also told her to basically skip the caucus states where Obama picked up a lot of his delegates.
She signed on with the Democratic leadership to penaiize Michigan and Florida so she cannot say it was done without her knowledge. One thing she does have going for her is that she will probably be ahead in the popular vote on June 3 and the Super Delegates do have the right to vote for the peron who they believe can beat John McCain in the fall.
