Look, she’s winning the popular vote by 4 hundredths of a percent if you make up a bunch of numbers from caucus states and count the states that don’t count. Seriously, though, that’s enough for the Clintons to go on.

What’s disturbing is that he lost in in the big democratic states by 10+. He can win the over the 5000 voters in the primaries in Alaska, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Alabama, etc., but there is less than zero chance he can prevail there in November.

Barack Obama cannot win the presidency if the Democratic base is not behind him, including the “old Democrats” to whom you refer - do you know what kind of numbers old people vote in? Additionally, he needs to appeal to the lunch pail / blue collar voters, because if they vote for McCain in any large numbers, it’s all over and Obama is back to his day job. Those voters have not embraced him yet, so he has some work to do.

My point was there is no excuse (and no one with any sense can make a serious argument) for Obama getting crushed in Pennsylvania at this point in the race (given his enormous advantages noted above). Obama supporters are trying to spin this thing, but it’s not happening - Pennsylvania overall was not a good thing for them any.

Also, since Obama “closed the gap” in Pennsylvania by 5 or 7 points, does the same standard apply to HRC in North Carolina? I saw a poll where she was down more than 25 points a few weeks ago - if she pulls 5 or 7 points closer, does that make the Obama win insignificant? Nonsensical.

He outspent HRC more than 2 to 1;

He is widely considered the presumptive nominee; and

He had 6 weeks to make his case (remember, the Obama people said he didn’t win earlier large primary states because he didn’t have time to campaign - and that he was unstoppable when given a few weeks to introduce himself to a state).

And don’t give me this 20-point argument. The race has been significantly closer for several weeks, and no one in his right mind thought HRC would win by 20 (everyone knew that was a ridiculously soft number from the beginning).

I will support Obama in the general, but it is deeply disturbing that he has lost virtually all of the delegate-rich Democratic states, and has done so by significant margins. It is equally frightening that his road to the presidency seems to depend on Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada (3 states that have been blue-ing, but are traditionally Republican) - people in his campaign have acknowledged they are not hopeful about either Florida or Pennsylvania, and are shaky on Ohio too.

I readily acknowledge Obama is almost certainly going to be the Democratic nominee, and I also note that he had better win or all your names will be mud in my book.