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Many people have wondered where this primary season will end. There is a leading candidate who appears to be uncatchable based on all known forms of counting delegates, and there is a second place candidate who is attempting against all odds to catch up by igniting political/social suicide bombs in the media, whenever possible.
My prediction, based on reading multiple interviews with party leaders and super delegates, based on known polling and voting patterns, and based on actions taken by both campaigns as well as by other players, leads me to the conclusion that the Dems by and large have a plan.
Part of this plan is that various Dem big wigs declare that it's fine to back Obama, such as Richardson, Leahy and Casey did recently.
My guess is the Supers will continue to migrate to Obama. This will increase to the degree that he will be able to go over the threshold by Puerto Rico or by MT, and SD primaries. He will win with pledged delegates putting him over the top, at the end of the voting/caucuses.
That way the popular narrative will be that Obama won it by being elected by the voters and caucus goers, and that he is now, officially, the universally presumed nominee. Hillary may try to dispute it, but the delegates in Obama's column will tell the tale.
Dean has set a hard date of 7/1 to have the race settled. This gives people time to workout their feelings before the cutoff. And in that way the party can move forward.
Anyway, bookmark this thread. That's my prediction of the best case scenario for the Dems, for Hillary, and fore Obama.
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