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As much as I hate to say it, Hillary Clinton is still a viable force and threatens American interests. Instead of quietly giving up and losing Texas and Ohio to Baracky, Hillary fought to win both of those pivotal states; assuring us of much hilarity probably all the way to the Democratic Convention in Denver. But this added hilarity...at what cost?

I blame Rush, and other Conservative pundits who called for lackadaisical Republican voters to cross over and vote for Hillary. If Hillary wins the Democratic nomination, and then goes on to win in November, I may not be able to forgive Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others who espoused this strategy.

Because if you have a chance to eliminate from contention the worst possible candidate, then you should do so. Baracky may be goofy-scary; by adopting this faintingly-messianic religiously-tainted leading man role, he is fun to watch, but I've never believed he could actually win, especially in November. But Hillary, now, with the tried and proven Machine of the Clintons, well, that's Halloween-movie stabbingly scary.

From Yahoo news...

Clinton won about 55 percent of the Ohio vote in nearly complete returns. She was winning just over half in the Texas primary.

She still faced a daunting task trying to overtake Obama in the remaining contests. It was questionable whether she would make up much ground once the final results were in and the complexities of allotting the 370 delegates at stake in the four states were ironed out.

"We have nearly the same delegate lead as we did this morning," Obama said, "and we are on our way to winning this nomination."

Yahoo has a bad habit of impermanent links, so I'll pick up some more...

In the four-state competition for delegates, Clinton picked up at least 115, to at least 88 for Obama. Nearly 170 more remained to be allocated for the night, 154 of them in the Texas primary and the caucuses that immediately followed.

Obama took the lead in Texas caucuses before counting closed for the night — 55 percent to 44 percent, with results in from 40 percent.

Obama had a total of 1,477 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates, according to the Associated Press count. He picked up three superdelegate endorsements Tuesday.

Clinton had 1,391 delegates. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.

There's a nice nassty fight for you. Hope you're happy, Rush, you have two bloody cocks fighting to the end.

A silver lining? At least the losing candidate won't be in much shape or mood to VP for the winner. That's almost a given; money in the bank if you care to bet. Sorry, Castro, your dream ticket isn't shaping up so well. For that, at least, I'm thankful.

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Oh, and before I forget...

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