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Akshay · 03-11-2008, 00:14 AM

At the moment Obama leads by over a half a million popular votes. Even if FL/MI/PA go in favour of Clinton I don't think she would be able to erase popular vote lead. So if the democratic race goes to the convention in August it is very much likely Obama would stand as popular choice in the convention not just in terms of number of delegates but also popular vote count. There is already an argument floating in California that Clinton leads Obama by only 35 delegates instead of 44 reported. If this gets validates after state certifies its election result it would shave away any hopes for Clinton to norrow the delegate lead to within 100. Michigan/Florida are lost for Clinton. I don't suppose there would be a revote as there is nobody willing to pay for the dues.

I think Clinton is now beginning to open up to the reality that she wouldn't endup as popular democratic candidate & therefore, she floated the notion of a joint ticket. Obama has already rejected the idea of running as a VP but maybe he would consider a joint ticket with him as president & Clinton as VP. If things do not improve for Hillary & she isn't able to stop the flow of super-delegates into Obama camp then she would most certainly grab the joint ticket offer maybe after the NC vote.

03-11-2008, 00:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
Akshay formerly ab041937 *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 06-27-05 Posts: 1,523 Country:	At the moment Obama leads by over a half a million popular votes. Even if FL/MI/PA go in favour of Clinton I don't think she would be able to erase popular vote lead. So if the democratic race goes to the convention in August it is very much likely Obama would stand as popular choice in the convention not just in terms of number of delegates but also popular vote count. There is already an argument floating in California that Clinton leads Obama by only 35 delegates instead of 44 reported. If this gets validates after state certifies its election result it would shave away any hopes for Clinton to norrow the delegate lead to within 100. Michigan/Florida are lost for Clinton. I don't suppose there would be a revote as there is nobody willing to pay for the dues. I think Clinton is now beginning to open up to the reality that she wouldn't endup as popular democratic candidate & therefore, she floated the notion of a joint ticket. Obama has already rejected the idea of running as a VP but maybe he would consider a joint ticket with him as president & Clinton as VP. If things do not improve for Hillary & she isn't able to stop the flow of super-delegates into Obama camp then she would most certainly grab the joint ticket offer maybe after the NC vote. __________________ If at first you don't succeed, call it v1.0!