Barack Obama now has 1,969 delegates to Clinton’s 1,779 delegates. Obama has now won a vast majority of the states that have voted in the Democratic primaries thus far. Of all the votes that have been counted (excluding Michigan and Florida because they violated Democratic party rules by moving their primaries up), Obama has more popular votes. In CNN’s national poll of polls, Clinton has not been ahead against Obama since around Super Tuesday.
Obama and others have recognized Senator Clinton’s right up to this point to stay in the race. However, I believe that there is a point where her involvement in this race is no longer an attempt for her to take the lead in the Democratic primary and become the Democratic nominee, but rather it is her stubbornness (or her “fighting” character, depending on how you view Mrs. Clinton) that makes her refuse to bow out of the race until the very end.
If Senator Clinton is truly concerned about the welfare and general prosperity of the American people for at least the next four years, I believe it is time that she removes herself from the remaining Democratic primaries and concedes victory to Senator Obama. I have a lot of respect for Senator Clinton, and I don’t think she would have made a bad president. However, the longer this race gets drawn out, the easier it is becoming for John McCain and the Republicans to try to break up an already divided Democratic party over the issue of candidate selection. So is it time for Hillary to call it quits? I certainly believe so.
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