Indecision...

As the much anticipated Pennsylvania primary approaches tomorrow there is still a great deal of indecision among the Democratic Party. Hopefully by the close of tomorrow night, or early Wednesday morning we should know which candidate captured more of the precious delegates that were up for grabs. So, with a little more than seven months to go before the Presidential general election the Democratic Party has yet to lock a candidate in stone. The democrats seem to still be closely divided between the candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. After forty five primary elections Mr. Obama has won a total of 1636.5 delegates which comes to roughly around eighty percent of the necessary 2025 delegates. Mrs. Clinton on the other hand has won herself 1479.5 total delegate, or around seventy three percent of the needed delegates. The great state of Pennsylvania has a total of one hundred eighty eight delegates that have yet to be distributed to the Democratic candidates. This means that even if either candidate were to win every single delegate, flat out, neither one would have enough to win the nomination. Now, this does not cause a problem because we still have nine primary races to go (all the way up until June 3rd) giving away a grand total of four hundred eight delegates. This means that there are still plenty of delegates to go around in the overall big scheme of things. So with just a bit more than two months until the last primary election, who will win the democratic nomination? I suppose that only time will tell the true answer to this question. One thing is becoming alarmingly clear as the last primary approaches, that the democrats need to hurry up and pick a candidate and focus on beating the their true nemesis, John McCain. The Republicans have it easy at this point, well to an extent. They already have their front runner picked; now they can and are focusing on making sure they win the big game, the Presidency. While the Democrats on the other hand are still distracted by intra-party conflict. If you ask me, I think the Democrats need to just, as Dave Chapell put it so elegantly, “Wrap it up B!!.” They need to finish with all the formalities and decide already; then focus on beating out the Republicans. It might not be such a good idea for us to give the Republicans a significant time advantage over the Democrats just because we cannot decide who is the right candidate for us. So, even though there are still plenty of delegates to go around I would hope that the Democratic candidates do not draw this out until the bitter end as it is just hurting the party as a whole. Oh yeah if you have not figured it out this is written from a Democrats perspective, sorry if I offend anyone.