A notice to my fellow Obama supporters: Let it be.

[Danger Mouse]

Obama is 99% likely to be the Democratic nominee.
The Republican party is weak and running scared. They're terrified of Obama, and McCain is a weaker candidate than they had hoped for. Their fundraising is weak, and their rank and file are disenchanted. Bush is horribly unpopular, and yet McCain keeps embracing him. Linking himself to a disaster like Bush, ensuring he burns himself down...
Amid all of this, the battle between Clinton and Obama continues. Yet it's almost over.
I say to you this: let it run its course.
It'll likely to continue until the last of the primaries have been concluded, at which point Clinton will likely concede and endorse Obama.
Please stop asking DU to 'declare Obama the winner' because it hasn't happened yet. While Senator Clinton is still in the race, let it go. Let it be.
Let it run its course.
We will join together to defeat McCain once the nomination is settled...but that time has not yet come. Do not worry: we will win.
For now?
Just let it go.

[BlooInBloo]

1. I'm holding out for 100%, but thanks.

[Danger Mouse]

2. The '1%' is basically 'something catastrophic'

[BlooInBloo]

3. I don't care what it is. The game ain't over until the game's over.

[Danger Mouse]

4. Agreed.

[kid a]

5. must... not.... respond... to... the unelectable / "whitey" .....threads...

[Danger Mouse]

6. i didn't say 'let it sink' i meant keep fighting, but stop saying 'it's over'.

:hi:

[candice]

7. Another crushing victory is coming in KY! Go Bama.

[kid a]

9. Just like WY, MS, WI, ID, GA, AL, NC, etc (KY does not make or break a mathematical lock) absurd!!

[Gore1FL]

12. Actually

unless Hillary manages 70%+, Obama takes the majority of all pledged delegates available. OR, MT, SD, and PR are all gravy. It would take the SD's to overturn the voice of the people, and actually, it appears they are more inclined to support it than overturn it.

[rodeodance]

18. SD are tasked with the responsibility to chose the best person to beat McCain in the GE.

[kid a]

20. well then Obama has nothing to worry about - the trend to him will continue

[Gore1FL]

26. Actuallly...

They are tasked with coming to their own conclusions on how to vote. Many are committed to the candidate with the majority of pledged delegates. Many realize that overturning the pledged delegates would cause defeat in the General election.

As it stands now, Hillary would have to win each remaining contest by 74% and get 74% of the remaining SD's to get to 2025.
She hasn't won her strongest states by that margin, and trails in at least 3 contests of those remaining. That means she'll realistically need 90% of all remaining super delegates.

There is no talking point that she or here supporters can make that cannot easily be quashed with basic facts. The SD's know this.

[Eurobabe]

8. I've already let it go, it's just these stupid "merger ticket"

theads that get my blood boiling. I don't want Obama saddled with those two ankle bracelets (Bill and Hillary)!! :mad:

Appoint her to the Supreme Court already!!

[newmajority]

10. There will be an answer...... Let It Be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67J_66hdN-I

[dchill]

11. Two more days.

:)

[boppers]

13. Thanks for the reminder.

Elfin Scientology wisdom for teh win!

Seriously, though, I've been trying to point out post-game ways of moving on, of uniting forces. Hillary's troops are formidable, even if we disagree about leadership. Sooo... recruitment ideas? Battle plans? How do we get the dwarves (even their women are fierce miners, warriors, and axe wielders) and the elves (elitist, and elegant, perhaps, but fighting evil with grace and style) to battle the Orcs of Limbaugh, the Balrog of Rove?

[ruggerson]

14. Your persistence is admirable, but look at your target audience

Hillary is a bone they can't drop. It's second nature to them now, reflexive. You're asking them to stop their heroin.

[Forkboy]

16. Kind of tough for you to criticize when you basically call them the equivalent of junkies.

:shrug:

[ruggerson]

19. they are junkies

rabid pit bulls also springs to mind. Obsessively negative and divisive. What else? Paranoid, delusional and angry. Give me time, I'll come up with more.

[Forkboy]

22. Some are, sure. So are some of the Hillary supporters here.

NJSecularist, Candice, Indimuse, Rodeodance, 2trh2pwr, etc all act the same way.

Nothing wrong with your thoughts about the Obama ones like that. But you're certainly aware and able to see that the rabidness, the negativity and devisiveness, the delusioned and the angry are hardly contained to one side here.

[Danger Mouse]

23. Some obama supporters are like that, yes.

[barack the house]

15. Very true it's McCain time now everything else is distraction. We gotta focus.

[JohnnyLib2]

17. Thanks for trying, Elrond. With our KY primary coming up Tuesday,

long term Dems like me are in an awkward spot. Surely that's true in the remaining primary states. When you have taken a stand in local circles,
"jumping ship" just before a primary would be plain stupid (and long remembered).

[grantcart]

21. The nominee for President is established how do you feel about Clintons

apparently using pressure to force Hillary on the ticket as VP?

[Hoof Hearted]

24. You are kissing up the wrong tree.

[Danger Mouse]

25. Eh?