Yes! We must not give up until the last mucous flooded gasps of the death rattle are finished. And even then, we must take care to check the pulse. Scan the brain. Incinerate the body. Pack the ashes into a lead vault. And launch the vault into the sun.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Yes! We must not give up until the last mucous flooded gasps of the death rattle are finished. And even then, we must take care to check the pulse. Scan the brain. Incinerate the body. Pack the ashes into a lead vault. And launch the vault into the sun.
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…and then nuke it from orbit. it’s the only way to be sure. 
MSNBC is now down to 30.5.
ETA:
That’s 9 total so far today. Hillary is still at 198.
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe]
This is the reason why I can’t watch CNN anymore. They have Wolf Blitzer on there who is biased only in the sense that one can be biased towards stupidity. His constant MO is to underestimate the intelligence of voters and overestimate the importance of stupid shit like lapel flag pins. Where people like Chris Matthews will occassionally call bullshit on such stupid arguments, Wolf seems to like to encourage it. I don’t need an liberal bias to my news, I just need a pro-sentient being slant.
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Amen
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
While this is closer than most have been, it looks a lot closer than it is.
Under this year’s cockamamie system where the (pledged) delegates are chosen proportionally, but in several different piles (one for each CD within a state, plus two different statewide delegate polls), a lead of 100 delegates is a big lead, and 200 is all but unchallengeable.
For a long time now, Obama’s lead has been in the 160-170 delegate range.
Just to give a sense of how big a lead that is, Hillary’s ‘convincing’ wins in Ohio and Texas netted her just a 4-delegate gain. (Make that 6 if you toss in RI and VT which had their primaries on the same day.)
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I completely agree with you. The appeal to history just didn’t make sense to me in light of the fact that this contest is closer than just about any democratic contest has been. I don’t disagree that her chances have been quite low for a while now, I just don’t agree that she should drop out while the chance is still there.
[QUOTE=GIGObuster]
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-qGLDs-gAnZiUXD2NU51ry3j3dwD912MB0O0
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Sorry, Gigo, but that was covered on page 48 (or 47 or something). Ickes has denied it.
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
I completely agree with you. The appeal to history just didn’t make sense to me in light of the fact that this contest is closer than just about any democratic contest has been. I don’t disagree that her chances have been quite low for a while now, I just don’t agree that she should drop out while the chance is still there.
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But RT was saying that it isn’t close, because of how the proportioning is done. So you actually disagree with him.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Sorry, Gigo, but that was covered on page 48 (or 47 or something). Ickes has denied it.
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The report comes from 2 hours ago, I would say that I lost any confidence on what Ickles says.
It can be that in typical double speak the delegate race will be conceded, but not the nomination.
http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=8417445&nav=menu1344_2
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[QUOTE=GIGObuster]
It can be that in typical double speak the delegate race will be conceded, but not the nomination.
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Lord, that’s the truth.
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
I completely agree with you. The appeal to history just didn’t make sense to me in light of the fact that this contest is closer than just about any democratic contest has been. I don’t disagree that her chances have been quite low for a while now, I just don’t agree that she should drop out while the chance is still there.
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Really? I guess there’s a non zero chance my balding bean will begin to sprout hair tomorrow also, so should I go around believing (and promising my increasingly shocked and dismayed wife) that in the foreseeable future I’ll have a luxurious mane of flowing tresses? if so, okay then, Clinton still has a chance.
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
AP now reporting that Obama has clinched.
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Damn, AP has found its balls today! 
The supers must be coming in pretty fast. DemConWatch has different numbers in different places on its front page.
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia]
Really? I guess there’s a non zero chance my balding bean will begin to sprout hair tomorrow also, so should I go around believing (and promising my increasingly shocked and dismayed wife) that in the foreseeable future I’ll have a luxurious mane of flowing tresses? if so, okay then, Clinton still has a chance.
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There were enough delegates in the last two states and supers that hadn’t commited to put her over. That’s hardly the same comparison.
If that AP report is correct, then that is no longer the case.
found it’s cojones, Liberal :rolleyes:
You’ve forgotten to use the parlance of the absurd season we live in…
MSNBC now has 29. That’s 10.5 so far today. Hillary’s count has not moved.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
But RT was saying that it isn’t close, because of how the proportioning is done. So you actually disagree with him.
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Exactly. Ever since TX/OH, Hillary’s been in the position of a baseball team that’s 20 games back on September 1. Sure, you’re not mathematically eliminated, but your chances are essentially nil, and you know it.
The difference is that sports teams have to play out the season, but they concede in other ways, like giving their minor-league call-ups a lot more playing time than a contender would after the rosters are expanded to 40 players on September 1.
Hillary should have thought about it for a week or so, then thrown in the towel a day or two after Mississippi.
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
Exactly. Ever since TX/OH, Hillary’s been in the position of a baseball team that’s 20 games back on September 1. Sure, you’re not mathematically eliminated, but your chances are essentially nil, and you know it.
The difference is that sports teams have to play out the season, but they concede in other ways, like giving their minor-league call-ups a lot more playing time than a contender would after the rosters are expanded to 40 players on September 1.
Hillary should have thought about it for a week or so, then thrown in the towel a day or two after Mississippi.
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The part that I agree with is that he has had a large lead for a while now, but it is still a lot closer contest than nearly any other has been.
I must confess I don’t get the baseball analogy, so I can’t say how it compares.
AP: Obama has delegates to clinch nomination
Hey, Merk: David Brody, a CBN correspondent and talking head, wrote this today, and it reminded me of you:
Stop torturing me! Watching Obama and his campaign trickle out these delegates slowly throughout the day is killing me. The suspense! It’s like the countdown to New year’s Eve! I just sit at my desk and watch the Obama delegate clock:
31.5
30.5
30.0
29.5
28.5
28.0
27.895686685585 (round up)
Goodness gracious. I want to take a lunch break but this dwindling delegate math is so riveting I can’t break away. I think I’ll order out.
