Will Hillary suspend her campaign tonight?
All indications are that Senator Hillary Clinton will suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight during her “victory” speech after the close of the Montana and South Dakota Democratic primaries.
By some accounts, Barack Obama is just 42 delegates shy of the 2,118 now needed to clinch the nomination. There are not enough pledged delegates at stake in Montana and South Dakota to put Obama over the top, but he is hoping that a rush of endorsements by the remaining undeclared “superdelegates” will allow him to claim victory when he speaks in Minnesota on Tuesday evening.
“Sen. Clinton is an outstanding public servant, she has worked tirelessly on this campaign, she has been a great senator for the state of New York and she is going to be a great asset when we go into November to make sure that we defeat the Republicans,” Obama said on Sunday in South Dakota, also stating on Monday in Michigan that “she and I will be working together.”
There is the possibility of a “dream ticket,” that is Obama as president and Clinton as vice president, but this becomes more unlikely as each day passes. Clinton continues to lose her bargaining power each day as Obama concludes that he does not need her to attain the nomination. In the end, neither will act in the best interest of the country or party, only in self interest.
The “dream” will only be realized if Obama believes that he cannot win the general election without her. The real question then is what will he have to give up to get her?
