Obama sweeps.. Clinton cleans house

Not even a week after splitting the delegates, with major wins on Super Tuesday, Barack Obama swept through the Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, and Maine primaries and caucuses taking the lead over Hillary Clinton in “pledged” delegates. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was busy loaning her campaign $5 million dollars and replacing her campaign manager, in a sign that there are definite chinks in the Clinton campaign machine armor.

With Obama positioned to do well in Virginia, Maryland, and Potomac primaries on Tuesday, there is every possibility that after those contests, Obama could over take Clinton in not only “pledged” delegates, but in total delegates by the time they are over.

The minor facts that Clinton not only felt the need to loan her campaign $5 million dollars (wonder what the interest rate is on a thing like that), but decided to replace her campaign manager shows there are definite stress on the Clinton campaign machine. After being essentially declared the Democratic nominee long before a single caucus or primary was held, Clinton’s staff have to be wondering what the heck has gone wrong.

There is still a long ways to go now, and it is becoming ever more likely that neither of these candidates will have the 2,025 delegates to assure themselves a first ballot nomination win come August and the convention. The so called Super Delegates are going to start feeling a lot more heat as the race closes down on Denver in the summer.

Additionally, the DNC is going to get ever increasing heat from the Clinton camp to start doing something about the Michigan and Florida delegates, that were stripped, and that she won the primaries for. How the DNC decides to deal with this matter, may have a huge impact on the eventual party nominee, and could be a decision that fractures the party so bad that a John McCain win in November becomes a possibility