Chocolate shame.

It's getting bad. Cadbury Cream Eggs should not be priced in pairs. I'll just leave it at that (I don't even really like chocolate, and I don't approve of the Cadbury company...I'm in bad shape). I also feel like I want to see 10,000 B.C. - which is normally the kind of thing I hate (the coolness of watching woolly mammoths build the Giza pyramids seems to have overwhelmed my normal response to things that are mind-numbingly dumb). Nevertheless, it's warmed up a bit today, and there's actually a bit of sun poking through. I'll trudge on and drown my sorrows in my new annotated Doyle books. Mike thinks I shouldn't be reading them until I'm done with my Christmas books, but none of them bothered to get themselves annotated, so I feel entirely justified. Tomorrow? Henry Rollins at seven.

Speaking of tomorrow, I'll be out of the house as the race to nominate a democratic candidate for president comes to an...end? Maybe?

The numbers are a little fudgy because of the different possible methods of arriving at them, but overall this is the clearest picture I've been able to find:

Popular vote:
Clinton: 8,535,055
Obama: 7,979,721
(for advanced students, those numbers include MI and FL. If I subtract those votes, her lead narrows to around 260,000...)

Delegate Totals:
Obama - 1,361
Clinton - 1,267

The popular vote may not seem important, but if the candidates wind up in a tie, the winner there will have a strong claim on the nomination. Hillary has a tremendously difficult road tomorrow night, but there are signs of life in her campaign, with some new polls on her side. She's widened her lead in Ohio, and while the candidates are deadlocked in Texas, Obama has higher negatives there and less stability in his support. Then again, the polls have been pretty consistently off, if not entirely wrong, through out this whole thing, and I think that you'd be nuts to make any predictions.

I know that some people are sick to death of all this, I'm actually kind of delighted. It's frustrating if you're attached to a particular candidate, but this has been the first primary in modern history where all, or almost all, of the states really matter. There are scenarios where this nomination could come down to votes in Puerto Rico, for heaven's sake. As far as I'm concerned, this is how it's supposed to work, and it's pretty great. Democrats worried that the party won't have time to coalesce around a candidate will notice that John McCain won't be able to get arrested as long as Clinton and Obama are duking it out.

While you're anxiously awaiting results, be sure to check out a brand-new Sound of Tomorrow. The hip-hop number alone is worth the price of admission (the price of admission being, as always...nothin').

Comments

[Adamn]

Cadbury cream eggs come in pairs in the US now? not over here. UK must be trying to keep from catching up to Americans in fatness by making the US fatter faster..
Oh, but they are sold year round here - perhaps that makes a difference. and there's also a giant-sized one, as they do giant chocolate eggs for easter here; not rabbits.

[sriman2011]

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