The funny part is that it’s more the rabid frothing at the mouth of some of his supporters that turns me off than Obama himself. He doesn’t come across that way himself – just far too many of his supporters.

It’s kind of a case of “with friends like you, who needs enemies?”
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Art is math, practically applied! Seriously, how else are you supposed to get perspective and ratio right?

Then again, if you saw the comment 2 above yours, at least your son isn’t likely to turn into someone that clueless!

I never said I was “on the fence” between 2 candidates. Who said I wasn’t voting for McCain?

You are just one of those sad people for whom reality is only shaped by your own desires. I’m not “grasping at straws” – personally, I have no vested interest in Hillary winning a nomination – I’m just capable of actually DOING math. Something, I’m afraid, all of your hyperbolic rhetoric doesn’t negate.

The sad part is, that people like you make me leery of Obama, because anyone with such fanatical, uninformed, illogical supporters makes me nervous.

The math doesn’t change because you don’t like it. Possibility and Probability are two different things. But you keep saying stupid things like “It is mathematically impossible for her to win.” Because I’ve just outlined exactly how it *is* mathematically possible for her to win.

Moron.

As to your math argument here, it’s rather pathetic and grasping at straws. She’s won a little more than half the super-delegates thus far, and Obama is gaining on her. Her best result in any state was in Arkansas, where she got something like 72%. It is mathematically impossible for her to win. Got it? You can bring up absurd scenarios like “all remaining supers could vote for her and she could win”, but that’s no different than saying “Obama could be struck by lightning and she could win.”

Yes, it is in some totally theoretically sense “possible”. But get back to reality here. Okay? Reality. She’s over. Toast. Done. Finished.

With that being said, I am with you that it is aggrevating to say that “women can’t do math.” Sen. Clinton has the possibility to win. Clearly the Dem Party is split almost right down the middle with who they want their nominee to be. She owes it to herself and to her supporters (financial, volunteers, and voters) to do what she can by the Dem Party rules to continue on.

BTW, in addition to the delegate count, it is interesting to see that with Florida and Michigan’s popular vote taken into consideration Sen. Obama is ahead by less less than 100,000 votes. That is not a large spread.

Finally, as far as telling people to drop out or not goes, it does happen all the time. On the GOP side, people were calling for Fred Thompson to drop out before the first vote was cast. Additionally, after the first couple of primaries, people were for Guiliani then Romney, and finally Huckabee to drop out. So, I do not think it is so much a woman thing as a party influncer thing.

hillary shouldn’t drop out because people tell her to – she entered the election to win and if it truly does become impossible for her to win, only then should she drop out. no one ever won by listening to people telling them to give up.

As for the political part of your post, I agree – I haven’t decided yet and don’t think I will for the foreseeable future. But, you know what, neither you nor I *have* to decide yet. Polls be damned! I’ll know when I know and not a second before.

I’ve read a great number of posts and Tweets today that said HRC should get out of the race ‘for the good of the party’. But isn’t going through the motions of voting and counting the delegates/supers the mechanism of our republic? I think it’s a great thing both she and Senator Obama continue to run until the people have definitively said who they have chosen.

Just my $0.02.

Great post – as alway.