Obama to declare victory on May 20th

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Obama has won the popular vote decisively as well.

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Obama has won the popular vote decisively as well.

Not everyone has voted and not everyone has been counted or is being allowed to re-vote, and I can think of pretty good demographic reasons why it was lobbied against happening.

Not everyone has voted, but Clinton would need more than 65% of the remainder to catch up--not just in West Virginia, but in Montana, Oregon and South Dakota as well. And that's including Florida and even Michigan, where only Obama complied with the DNC's request that candidates remove their names from the ballot.

Clinton can't even catch up under her most contorted measures.

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Can some Obama supporter explain to me the rationale for declaring victory on May 20 instead of when he gets 2,025 delegates? He has to know that the May 20 declaration will be disputed, and that it will cause acrimony between his and Hillary's campaign, and it will make him look as if he is trying to railroad himself through the nomination, all for what, a measly 3 weeks?

The only explanation I can think of is that they feel less secure than they want everyone to think over there in camp Obama.

Or that they want to be able to campaign against McCain unfettered by the gnat of the Clinton campaign.

But really, we don't even know that they'll do this.

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Maybe he has enough private endorsements from superdelegates to reach 2025 that day. You can whine about this if/when it actually happens, people.