Well, today is the last contest in the Presidential Primary Season. First a couple of predictions:

Obama will win South Dakota by less than 10 points, and will win in Montana by less than 15 points. I may be wrong on Montana, and it may be a walk for him there (because every democratic supporter I know there supports Obama, but this isn’t really a fair characterization, because I haven’t met a Clinton supporter yet this year.)

Which brings me to the topic of this post, and my last of the the primary analysis. I have in the past said a number of times that it is a good thing that Clinton has remained in the race, from an ideological point of view. But she is finished, her race is over. She will celebrate a successful campaign tonight, and may even concede, but she will not get the nomination, not tonight, not in August.

Now a lot of people are looking for answers as to why she lost: some people say it was poor organization, some people say it was her abrasive personality that turned a lot of people off, some claimed it was black voters who voted for one of their own instead of her. It is true that Clinton never considered the possibility that she might not win. I watched an interview she did with Katie Couric last year, where Couric asked Clinton if she had considered what she would do if she didn’t get the nomination, and she responded, “You just can’t think like that, Katie.” As if, don’t mention it, because if you do, you are beaten. OR, don’t mention it because there is no possible way it will happen. Clinton and everyone else believed that she was supposed to be the nominee of the Party. It was time to go back and retry something that “worked” while William Clinton was President. It was time for a correction back to when things were supposed to be so good for the US. She was “inevitable”. Read the rest of this entry »