Mourning

So I am in mourning today, for two reasons. First, Obama lost both Texas and Ohio yesterday... that sucks. Second, and more importantly, this could be disastrous for the Democratic Party. First of all, the primary is now going to go all the way to the convention. On the one hand, that gives McCain a three-month head start on unifying the party behind him. On the other hand, it does means more publicity for Clinton and Obama. However, after her recent success with negative ads, Clinton is sure to use even more of them, which is reason number two for mourning.

Clinton is not going to get the majority of the pledged delegates at this point. She has to win all of the remaining states by at least 60% in order for that to happen, and it won't. If she runs enough negative ads, however, she might go into the convention with momentum and with most of the DNC on her side. If she then gets the nomination, it'll be absolutely disastrous for the Democratic Party, for a number of reasons.

Clinton is divisive. Her negative ads will only reinforce the hatred many people have for her. Many Republicans who don't like McCain will vote for him just to vote against Clinton. In short, Clinton will come out of the convention behind McCain and a Republican could win the Presidency again. And then the Iraqi occupation would go on. And on and on. Not to mention all the Bush taxcuts.

Please, DNC! Pick a candidate now! The party needs it before things get way ugly.