Informed Speculation

So reports ABC News: Sen. Hillary Clinton held a conference call today with members of Congress and superdelegates in which there were discussions about her plans for getting out of the race, ABC News has learned. All indications are Clinton will get out of the race by Friday. A senior Clinton advisor now confirms to [...]

…and Clinton will apparently acknowledge it, ending, for all intents and purposes, the drawn-out final stages of the Democratic race and closing the books on the Clinton era, perhaps, as well. Clinton is still maneuvering for VP. The AP’s tally is the one that ‘effectively’ put Obama over the top, though Obama’s own count has [...]

Well, where is a poor part-time blogger to turn on a day like today? In the old days, each of these links would have been post-worthy, but I’m pressed for time, so a quick run-down will have to do… First, in the will-she-or-won’t-she-drop-out-on-Tuesday category, the evidence is…inconclusive. Those arguing that she will can point to [...]

With the decision to give Florida and Michigan delegates half a vote, and a ruling on how to apportion Michigan, the magic number to nominate is now 2,118, with Obama at 2,051 and Hillary at 1,876. Including today’s vote in Puerto Rico, there are 86 delegates remaining in the primaries, and 178 superdelegates who have [...]