Posted by Dave on 05/08/08 at 08:58:22 am
Categories: Barack Obama, Campaign 2008

Tuesday was a good day for the Obama campaign, regardless of the spin that you may have read or heard from the Clinton camp. Obama won big in North Carolina (by 14%) and narrowly missed a win in Indiana, falling just 1.1% short (50.56% to 49.44%). And to be perfectly honest, while we were disappointed that he was not able to win Indiana, he did more than enough to secure the nomination.

Our time spent in Gary was well worth it - our get out the vote canvassing was extremely successful, bringing out huge record numbers of voters in the city and helping swing the results towards Obama. It was an exciting day, talking to people who were excited about voting, exited about politics, excited about change, and excited about making history. And we were all part of that.

Yet Hillary Clinton is still around. Barely. She has loaned her campaign over 11 million dollars in order to stay afloat. She is losing the popular vote. She is losing the delegate count. She is losing the money race. She is losing in every possible measure. And the facts are simply. The math is against her, making it almost impossible for her to win barring some kind of catastrophe in the Obama camp.

This campaign is over.

What Barack Obama needs to begin to do is stop running against Hillary Clinton, and start running against John McCain. Clinton may still be around, but she is now essentially irrelevant. That means no more debates, no more criticizing Clinton, no more responding to her attacks.

It is time to look to November.

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