Obama Is The Nominee March 9, 2008
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Little Wyoming has tipped the scales: Obama will be the nominee. There’s little question that he has now won the Democratic nomination for president. Even if Hillary wins every one of the remaining primaries, which she won’t, she’ll still be over 100 delegates behind him by the convention — more likely 200 behind.
The so-called superdelegates — in reality, hackdelegates — have the power en masse to defy the wishes of the primary voters and steal the nomination for Hillary. But the operative word here is “hack.” In politics, water is thicker than loyalty. What Bill Clinton did for them a decade ago is a gauzy memory. There is only one constant in politics: What can you do for me today? And Hillary, day by day becoming the obvious loser, has no answer to that question.
Will the hackdelegates force the party to accept Hillary over the express wishes of the very people whose votes they need to win re-election? Not bloody likely.
