Candidates, themselves, don't expect early end

Since Florida and Michigan votes will not matter, can anyone explain why their delegate counts have not been removed from the sum total by the DNC so that the final number of delegates needed by each candidate is 2024 minus one half the total number of these states' total?

It has not been determined that the votes will not count. Like everything else in politics, no one can make a final stand.

Including the remaining undecided superdelegates, there are about 900 delegates left to be apportioned. Obama must win 43% of these remaining delegates to win the nomination and reach 2024.

This contest is a slow bleed for Hillary and if the fundraising doesn't knock her out, the inevitable outcome will.

Why have rules if there is no intention to play by them. Michigan and Florida broke the rules therefore they can't play. The game is over for Hilary either way, if she steals the election the Black vote stays home in November and she will need all of the Democratic Black votes to win, with her enormous negatives among Independants. For the good of the party she should step aside and see if Obama can get it done. If he loses she comes back in 4 years, If he wins, she is all done for good.

I never thought I would see the day that I would agree with Hillary about anything, but her point that Senator Barach H. Oboma is an elitist is right on the mark. I also believe Barach H. Oboma is a very inteligent politician and doesn't say anything he hasn't carefully thought out to have the maximum affect. What I mean is, he knew the public reaction was going to be negative, and that he would emerge stronger having gained respect from his party faithful for saying something no thoughtful person would even consider but was designed get the publics attention big time.
To that end he has succeeded and will receive an atta boy from George Soros and Reverend Wright.

As far as being elitist, Barack Obama's father left him when he was 2, he was raised by a single mom and sent off to his grandparents. He just finished paying off his student loans. When he got out of college he went to work on the streets of Chicago to help people. On the other hand, the Clinton accumulated 110 million dollars in a very short time, and probably more if the truth be told. Who's elitist?

And what he said people being bitter about losing job, home, etc. is entirely true; he might have said it better but he's just not slick enough of a politician to be forever atuned to how his words can be twisted used against him.

And I don't think any of us would want to be taken to task for things said by people we happened to know, or even had some association with. That is so ludicrous as to be beyond intelligent thought.

This is such a smear campaign by Clinton. Michael Moore backs Obama but he doesn't really believe that American will let a black man be president. I don't believe Americans are so racist, or that they cannot see the strategy at work by the Clinton campaign.

We would be very fortunate to have Barack Obama as the next President of the United States. Not only would the US benefit, but the entire world. I believe that with all my heart. If it matters, I'm a 73 year old white woman, and I've been around long enough to know a very special human being when I see one.
ow a very special human being when I see one.