You a valid point there. The media pundits and leading Democrats like Pelosi and Dean are trying to end the race, when it is so obvious that the momentum is in Hillary's camp. What is it they are so afraid of?,That maybe a women might get elected President? If Hillary wins these states that I mentioned as well as S.D., Montana and P.R. which also are very competitive for her, then how in world can you argue that she is "toast" as you mentioned.  I don't know how they think they can get away with disenfranchising the voters of Michigan and Florida, or refuse to seat those delegates, and expect to win those states in November. Hillary won those states convincingly. It was Obama who withdrew his name from contention in Michigan, and his name was on the ballot in Florida, so to cry that these states shouldn't count is nothing more than stonewalling the will of those voters to his liking. And he calls himself a man of "Change"  PLEASE!

Oregon doesn't count

The correct answer is: not nearly enough.

READ ALL ABOUT IT, READ ALL ABOUT IT. Democratic Nominee to be decided by SUPER DELEGATES, NOT PLEDGED DELEGATES. Get it? No one is talking about pledged delegates any more.

Keep Dreaming, too much support for Hillary in that state, she will swamp all rural areas and is even doing good in NW Indiana.

the 10 remaining contests:

Obama:  North Carolina, Guam, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota

Hillary:  Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virgina, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico

Will that get Hillary enough pledged delegates?

Very unlikely.  However, she could pass Obama in the popular vote by the end of this process.

We shall see...

Your figures are wrong, not that pledged will decide this race anymore. Anyway he is ahead by 134, a very slim margin.

the Clinton campaign is arguing that popular vote in the standard.  If she loses NC by 15, there is no way she can get to within 300,000 votes of Obama evin if you include Florida.

For Clinton to win, she has to get within 5 in North Carolina.  

Obama has been picking up more Superdelegates in the last two months than Clinton, has a lead in national polls, has been out fundraising her, has been closing the gap in Pennsylvannia in terms of which candidate is preferred, and she has lost control of how this race is being framed in the national media.  

By what measure does Clinton have momentum?

It is an honest question.  I would be happy to support Clinton if she gets the nomination.

You think superdelegates will say, "Oh, Clinton won Puerto Rico, we have to give the nomination to her"?  My hunch, there is already a consensus among 1/2 of the uncommitted superdelegates to vote for the winner of pledged delegates.  Not saying the contest should end now, but suspect Clinton's real chances are 0% (absent some implosion of Obama's campaign).  This would also explain the comments of Dean and others right now: they aren't simply setting a July 1st deadline, they've done the canvassing and know how this is going to end.

DNC has a real mess on their hands. They will have to reassess the process for the next election cycle.

to allow the popular vote to decide this.

Careful love your hood is slipping. Delegates are assigned by past voting trends.

we count popular vote of people who vote.

If in a state of a million only 10 people vote in primary, we count them as popular vote.

If in a state of a million only 10 people vote in caucus, we count them as popular vote.

WE COUNT THE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP TO VOTE!!!

Thats what POPULAR VOTE IS.

Whats with desire to disregard voters in like tens and tens of states.

Why else would they push it?

I'm making a list of over-Clintonistic predictions, and filing them away for future amusement.

I think that Hillary may win 5 out of the 10 remaining primaries.

Exactly wrong, in the case of Oregon, and probably those others.

In states with low black population and little black-white friction, like Vermont, Obama dominates, as have been observed elsewhere.

Race just isn't a factor here.

However the place is very genteel, perhaps obnoxiously so. When I first moved here 30 years ago if two pick-ups encountered each other they would stop in the middle of the road and the drivers chat.

If you pulled up behind and gave any sign of impatience before that had hat at least 5 minutes to wind up their conversation you were considered unspeakably rude.

Very weird for someone coming from the NYC metro area.

Hillary's mean campaigning has killed her here.  I predict a 30-40% Obama victory.

If you think Clinton can win in Oregon Montana, and South Dakota you are delusional.

i have news for you too: at least 15+9=24 of his wins are either fraud or insignificant or both.

forget about OR, SD, MT - Hillary will win them too

the diary about the high school phone bankers, wonderfully written by one of the high schoolers with pictures of them hard at work didn't even make it to the rec list.  When I commented I was about #6 or so and then it dropped off the list a little later.