Delegate Obsession

Elizabeth here. Fair warning---this is a political post. I have been somewhat obsessively following the democratic primary lately. I am very much in the bag for Obama. In fact, after reading this fellow blogger's post, I was fired up enough to go to Obama's website, make a donation, buy a yard sign and a t-shirt, and sign up to volunteer.

I was hoping (but not expecting) that Texas and Ohio would be wins for Obama (though Texas may have been sort of) and that Hillary would have to drop out. Obviously, this did not happen, and now it looks like we have to go all the way to the convention to get this thing settled. According to Slate's delegate counter, with the superdelegates that Obama has now, he would pretty much have to win 75% of the rest of the contests. But it looks like he will almost certainly have more delegates when convention time comes, and surely the democratic party would not implode itself just to get Hillary in office. Of course, there is also this whole mess with Florida and Michigan. It sure seems like time to revise the system!!

The good news for us Hoosiers and Tar Heels is that our primaries matter for the first time in living memory. Oh yeah, and speaking of Tar Heels, tonight is the rematch with Dook! Let's go Heels!!