. . . to the presumptive nominee, Barack Obama. Yes, Hillary beat him almost as badly in KY as she did in West VA, while he had a decent win in Oregon, and reached his May 20 goal - the majority of pledged or elected delegates in the entire process. According to those who know, this is the metric the Obama campaign has strategized for all along - because those are the rules, man! Delegates, delegates, delegates. That's why they made their time allocation decisions and skipped or almost entirely skipped in-person campaigning in West VA and KY, that's why they conceded them to Hillary - they knew what numbers they needed and where those numbers would come from. They're taking a lot of heat from the pundits over this - Obama SHOULD have done personal campaigning in the Appalachian states - at least he should have done something to make the gap between he and Hillary smaller.
At any rate, Hillary vows to go on. Why? She has almost no chance at winning the nomination, but wants to rack up as many delegates and popular vote count as possible in the remaining contests. Why? For leverage - to get something she wants, at or before the convention in Denver. Maybe the veep spot - maybe a pledge from Obama for 100% universal health care (his proposed plan is not quite 100%) - who knows what? But you can be sure that this most political of couples will be after something!
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