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With Hillary Clinton’s resounding win in West Virginia this evening, the Democratic party knows it is in real trouble.  Hillary sounded a bit too victorious during her victory speech in a state where she only gained 12 more delegates than Barack Obama, and where John Edwards won 7% of the vote.

Clinton vows to push on even though there is no way for her to win. Her continued efforts only make it more likely that the Democratic Party will lose in the fall. 

The primary race will contine and, even though Clinton will lose, there seems to be no immediate way to make her drop out of the race.  She is engaging in a racial and gender charged slash and burn strategy to win at all costs.

The numbers do not work for her. She has no way of manipulating events enough to gain a majority of delegates.  She can only act as a spoiler.

She should be stopped before she destroys Obama’s momentum and alienates all of the new voters that the Democrats have enlisted this year. 

She will not make this decision on her own, nor will her advisors.  They will drag the convention into the mud as they claw and scrape for every single delegate.

She continues to believe that she can change the rules and somehow overturn the elected delegate majority.  This approach can only turn out badly.

One path to a quick conclusion is if a large majority of undecided superdelegates endorse Barack Obama very soon, well in advance of a convention, and send a clear message of unity and support for the will of the voters and elected delegates.

145 Superdelegates voting for Obama would end this now.

It would send a wake up call to Hillary, and the Clinton machine, telling her to negotiate for the Vice Presidential nomination now, and let the ticket begin it’s consolidation and fundraising efforts against John McCain.