Hillary Expected to Drop Out

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Hillary Clinton, in the running for Democratic Party nominee, is expected to drop out on Tuesday night. She has summoned her top donors and supporters together on Tuesday night where she is expected to step down and endorse narrow front-runner Barack Obama.

From the Huffington Post article:

Obama and Clinton spoke Sunday night and agreed that their staffs should begin negotiations over post-primary activities, according to reliable sources. In addition to seeking Obama’s help in raising money to pay off some $20 million-plus in debts, Clinton is known to want Obama to assist black officials who endorsed her and who are now taking constituent heat, including, in some cases, primary challenges from pro-Obama politicians.

It’s been common knowledge for a while that Hillary’s campaign is straining under mounting debt. It’s interesting that Obama’s campaign will be assisting with paying down the debt in the Hillary campaign which I’m sure that some may interpret as a bribe. Since the last few primaries, there was no conceivable way for Hillary to make up the candidates she needed to take the nomination (even with the MA/FL vote backtrack) so this is actually the best course of action.

Some doubt Obama’s ability to go up against the Republican machine of fear, uncertainty, doubt and spin but his job is going to be made all the more harder with the polarising and cult of personality politics that Hillary has been playing by dragging out her failed campaign. Unfortunately there are some very unsavory, extremist supporters (on both sides of the fence) that will make things a lot more difficult than they needed to be for the Democratic Party who need unity, but instead end up with a split down the middle fanbase.

Now that she’s out of the way, someone’s going to have to deal with Ralph Nader who has reared his ugly head again as an independent threatening to split the democratic vote again.