Saturday, May 3, 2008

Obama Wins Guam!!

Woo! Two delegates for Obama!! And two for Hillary. Okay, so it was basically a wash, but Obama won, giving him officially more than double Hillary's number of wins, 31-15. On the bright side the pro-Obama party chair and vice-chair in Guam won their race, thus becoming superdelegates, so two more for Obama there. Obama also picked up a few more add-on delegates giving Obama a +4 over Hillary for the day. Every day the math gets even more impossible for Hillary, if that is even possible at this point. It also doesn't help her that she is now threatening superdelegates in Congress with Republican talking points to support a Republican $10 billion handout to oil companies. Her pandering to voters might fool enough voters to get a win out of Indiana, but it isn't going to make superdelegates happy, or environmentalists.

And for those who believe in signs, earlier this week Hillary told supporters:

I hope that everybody will go to the [Kentucky] derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly [Eight Belles] for me. I won’t be able to be there this year -- my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles.
To which Eight Belles' trainer replied, "It looks like it could be the year for the girls. Eight Belles I’m sure would want to endorse."

Only Eight Belles finished second, collapsing immediately after crossing the finish line, and was euthanized shortly thereafter. It was a very sad and tragic end to the race. But for those who believe in signs, maybe this means it isn't "the year for the girls", and maybe Hillary should just drop out before it is too late and she euthanizes her own political career.

For what it's worth, the winner was the Kentucky Derby was crowd favorite, Big Brown.

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