How much longer will the Democratic nomination fight last?

• Until May 6. Obama wins delegate-rich Indiana and North Carolina leaving Clinton with little money or momentum.
  30%  (1239) 30%
• Until June 3, the last primary. Undecided superdelegates will by then coalesce around one candidate.
  37%  (1522) 37%
• All the way to the August 25-28 Denver convention. It won't be pretty--and the outcome is still anybody's guess.
  32%  (1301) 32%

1. How much longer?

   Too much longer.

   Posted by sloper at 04/22/2008

2. It should be over on May 6th, but Hillary doesn't know when to quit and is not thinking of what is best for the party at all. She will take it all the way to the convention just to weaken Obama with the hope that he will lose to McCain so she can get another shot in '12.

   Narcissistic, self-absorbed, megalomaniac, are the words that best describe Hillary's continued efforts to drag out this contest beyond what is politically ideal. But these are also the words that voters are using to reject Clinton at the polls, and the sad part is she doesn't even understand that this is the reason she is being rejected.

   Posted by Metteyya at 04/22/2008

3. My guess is she will stay in until June 3 no matter what. Then, as is inevitable, Obama will still be ahead and the superdels will coalesce around him.

   Having said that, there is always the chance that even under that senario, she will go all in - risking her potential future as the top ranking Democratic Senator - and challenge all the way to the convention.

   Posted by jdnfyb at 04/22/2008

4. She will definitely stay until June 3rd, though if she doesn't win big in PA, funds will be ever-decreasing for her, and she may not be able to string it out that long. However, after reading blog after blog of PA women saying they want a woman in the White House, I think she'll do fairly well in PA. Sadly, I have to agree with the blogger who called her a narcissistic megalomaniac. Would these PA women choose Ann Coulter just because she's a woman? You have to look at the content of the character as well, which doesn't seem to be happening. Never let the stupidity of the American people surprise you when it comes to choosing the best candidate for President.

   Posted by Wahrheit at 04/22/2008

5. I think Obama wins North Carolina and the numbers become SO obvious that Dean tells the Supers..."Vote NOW!" and they pick Obama because he'll have what he has had since before Texas and Ohio...

   1. most popular votes

   2. most pledged delegates

   3. most states won

   And JUST BEFORE the Supers vote and totally embarass Hillary....she "graciously but sadly" quits the race and tells her supporters to support Obama.

   (and then starts her sabotage campaign, so that she can still run in 2012 against an incumbent McCain!)

   Posted by Mask at 04/22/2008

6. Voters in PA are delusional: they say overwhelmingly Obama will bring about needed change and these very same individuals say Clinton has necessary experience; if everybody agrees she will not bring about needed change, then what is the point of experience??? Bush had experience, the changes he brought are increasingly unpleasant for us and the rest of the world....expect more of the same from clinton or mccain...as Obama has said, "an important distinction between the two will be how this change would come about" clintons' change would be vetoing everything like bush, leading to intransigence and no positive changes....it might be great for dems to feel like they have some balls for a change, but it will be meaningless...clinton has already destroyed a united party..she is working on handing the keys to mccain...and her "core" old white "middle ground" demographic or pseudo-conservative is basically destroying the Democratic party....her cause is useless, give money to her so she can at least pay her staff, she is so far in the hole...nobody in Washington likes her now, despite her "experience"...WAKE UP!!!

   Posted by jrs112 at 04/22/2008

7. True to form for "wymin" of her mindset, count on Hitlery to be self-centered enough to take the fight all the way to the convention and leave only a shell of the Democratic Party in her wake should she not prevail. A walkout on the order of 1948 would not surprize me. But what entertains most is that a personal disaster of her dimensions, after having spent three decades utterly convinced that she had some particularly special grasp of what the world needed, could accuse anyone else of elitism, not that her opponent made it terribly hard for her not to do so. Given the likely outcome that one of the three stooges currently on stage will serve as the next president, consider it blessed relief that Nadar and, apparently, Barr are in the mix. Nadar, with his trenchant commentary, comes off an adult compared to these adolescents. His internal polls report support at 10% at the moment and who is surprized? Barr, still in exploratory status, reports his support at 7%. Can we hope that these two do sufficient damage to the status quo to mean something this time?

   Posted by john lowell at 04/23/2008

8. Well, for one this 73 year old white [Maine/Boston] male with post-graduate degrees... who lost with McCarthy, Dukakis, Kerry... and... will sit it out and NEVER vote for, as McCain so aptly affirmed "The Bitch". QED

   Posted by megacephalus at 04/23/2008

9. One of the "problems" with the Democratic Party is that in reality it is several "parties' which usually can work together. The current primary season (campaign war) demonstrates that at least two of these 'parties" have sufficient resources and will to attempt to force it views on the confederation of interest known as the Democratic Party. What does not seem to be recognized by most pundits and Hillary's and Obama's campaigns is that there are real democrats who are not energized by Obama or Hillary. The "battle between Hillary and Obama is not between two halves of the party but one between two thirds of the party, another third is setting this out. The "race" between Obama and Hillary has come to one based on personality, money, gender, and ethnicity. What ever happened to the party with clear ideas for the nation's common good? My hope is that the super-delegates will refuse to put either over the top.

   Posted by Cratylus at 04/23/2008

10. Hmm, this straw poll is as close as the delegate count. Hearing the results upon rising on Wednesday morning, I felt a moment of despair. The Dums are continuing to eat each other alive clearing the path for a Republican victory in November. The thought that maybe I wouldn't even vote flickered briefly. No, dammit, I'll vote for the Dummos candidate no matter who it is. Look what happened in 2000 when the message was 'there's no difference between these two candidates'! Well, maybe there was; maybe there was.

    Posted by Moderatus at 04/23/2008

11. convention when the Clintons pull out the last of their daggers and send Obama home.

    Posted by lvliberty1 at 04/24/2008