Imagine how many more Kentucky votes would have been cast for Clinton had the press not been giving the last rites to the Clinton campaign.... Obama, expected to lose by a much smaller margin, obviously has a real problem. Yes, he will carry Oregon, to be sure. Yes, he will be within an arms reach of a majority of the pledged delegates required for the nomination if you happen to think taking Florida and Michigan off the table is a wise move. But the fact remains that he has lost, and lost big in some very important states necessary to be elected.
If, for example. Obama fails to carry Connecticut in the national, which is a very real possibility, it would take 5 smaller, mid-western states just to break even with Mc Cain. So it IS a very acceptable question to raise: Is Obama electable on the national scene? And can the Dems chance losing the White House in a critical period in our nations history? The truthful answer is no, we cannot afford it, but we are stuck. Stuck due to the caucus states Obama won early on during the Obama nation hysteria period. A period, and movement which is most definitely wearing thin across the nation. That's the trouble with being a political pop icon...you have a very limited shelf life until voters lose the feeling and reassess who, and most notably what you stand for, if anything at all.
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