PolitiPorn™

by Shush, PolitiPorn Religion Correspondent on Special Assignment focusing on the Tuesday’s Aftermath, or what we like to call - The Bloodbath, Aftermath!

As Obama is famously being quoted everywhere as having said, “These are good pancakes.  You want one?”

Oh, wait, I think that may be the wrong quote.  The actual quote was more along the lines of, “everyone said that Tuesday’s primaries will be a game changer.  The voters have spoken, and the game they want changed is the one in Washington.”  Which, to be sure, is more articulate than “My win had better margins than yours.”  Clinton won in Indiana by a margin of 4%, which gives her a whopping 4 delegates up on Obama until you see his 14 point margin in North Carolina.  Clinton left with a total of 84 delegates to Obama’s 96.

So what does this mean, one might ask?  Well, NPR’s Wednesday wrap-up gave Clinton a grim future, with even the Clinton supporters saying that it now becomes a question of when best to pull out.  Clinton needed a big win, a 20 point margin win, a definitive “the tides are turning” win, and instead she just got a little bit wet.  Obama, on the other hand, got to act gracious and poke jabs at McCain as if he’s the only other candidate in the race.  Well, Clinton supporters might say, what about Reverend Wright and Bittergate and all of the problems plaguing the Obama campaign while Clinton still keeps smelling like roses?  Do we really want a candidate already beleagured?  Obama supporters retort, “you throw everything you can at our guy and his margins are still bigger than yours.  He’s unbreakable.”  Clinton supporters continue, “but no one’s throwing dirt on our gal, she’s clean as a whistle.” To which Republicans roll their eyes and say, “we’re saving the dirt for the Nationals.  Remember, we HATE THAT WOMAN.”

The math is out there, and Clinton would need better than twenty point margins in every primary here on out just to close the gap a little, and she’d still have to flip the election on the convention floor to actually win.  She’d have to be crazy to think that she’d be able to keep the ground support of the democratic party if she stole the nomination from the candidate who now definitively owns both the popular vote and delegate lead.  (Oh, did I hear someone say Florida and Michigan?  Ask the Obama supporters in Florida and Michigan who didn’t see his name on the ballot what they think about that one…)

And as for the talk of back room politics and subterfuge, well, somebody pass me the popcorn.

It’s going to be an interesting summer.