Very early in life, I formed this impression that the Republican-Democrat battles in politics, and the Nebraska-Oklahoma battles on the football field, were very nearly the same thing, the underdog versus the upperdog, and the winner having great national significance.
A not unreasonable comparison; very often, the outcome of the then-annual Nebraska-Oklahoma football game frequently determined the national championship, and nearly always at least the conference championship.
As of this morning, with 2,026 delegates needed to win the Democrat nomination for president, Barry "Goldwater" Obama, the upperdog, has 1,962 delegates (both elected delegates and superdelegates), with only 64 more needed to win.
The underdog Hillary Clinton has 1,779 delegates (both elected delegates and superdelegates), with 247 more needed to win.
The blunt fact being that this game isn't over yet.
It's probably pretty much over, but it's not over yet.
This is why, whenever Nebraska was leading Oklahoma in a football game, even by something like 35-24, into the last minute or so of the fourth quarter, I never breathed easily until the final gun. I had lived long enough to see Oklahoma snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and an 11-point margin over Oklahoma with less than a minute to go was hardly assurance Nebraska was going to win the game.
It worked the other way around, too, but not nearly as often.
This is what puzzles, what consternates, me about the Obamocrats "demanding" that Hillary Clinton abandon the race, give up, cave in, toss in the towel.
Their own man doesn't have a majority needed to get the Democrat nomination, so this isn't over yet.
If Barry "Goldwater" Obama had a majority of Democrat delegates, 2,026+, well, that would be different.
But he doesn't; the whole thing's still up for grabs, the game's not over.
For Hillary Clinton to give up now would be the same thing as Nebraska giving up a football game with Oklahoma, trailing by 7 points and a couple of minutes yet to play in the game (this alas did sometimes happen in real life, the underdog Nebraska having put up a good fight, but then abruptly giving up and fading away near the end of a game).
I think the comparison here is apt; the underdog Nebraska and the underdog Hillary Clinton, up against the upperdog Oklahoma and the upperdog Barry "Goldwater" Obama. The odds of the underdog winning are rapidly fading away to nothing, but there's still time left in the game, and the game should be played out.
