guess who’s winning (hint: it’s ☻♂, not ☺♀)

in that map, the states that are red were won by barack obama in democratic primaries or caucuses, the states that are blue were won by hillary clinton, and the white states have not voted yet. the dark blue states are ones that actually count for hillary clinton, and the 2 light blue states (florida and michigan) do not count, according to rules that the democratic national committee and all of the candidates agreed to. so, out of the contests that count, barack obama won 19 out of the 30 that happened so far, and hillary clinton won 11 out of 30. and 3 of the contests (louisiana, nebraska, and washington) were on saturday and one was today, sunday. out of the 4 that happened in the last 2 days, how many did barack obama win? 4 out of 4! meanwhile, not only do we know that hillary clinton has loaned $5 million to her campaign (like loser mitt romney) and her top campaign staff agreed to go 1 month without being paid to save the campaign money (like loser rudy giuliani), but we also know that she just fired her campaign manager patti solis doyle (who is technically still going to be a senior advisor to the campaign). and who is the new campaign manager for hillary rodham clinton? maggie williams, a longtime advisor to hillary clinton who was chief of staff to hillary clinton when she was first lady. in other words, hillary’s campaign is now being managed by someone she has been close to for many years, but who has never managed a political campaign before. ever. the latest news does not look very good for hillary clinton, but she could still win. however, i think it would all be for the best if barack obama continues to win the most states and the most pledged delegates, and then maybe the not so superdelegates would come around and quit being such spoilers. and then maybe howard dean could get the democratic national committee to change the rules so we never have unelected party insider superdelegates again, and we never have rules that say certain states do not count again, as happened in florida and michigan. every state should count, and superdelegates should not exist. but even without such a system, it still looks as though barack obama has the advantage, for now. on tuesday, there are 3 more primaries: virginia, maryland, and the district of columbia. barack obama is going to win by such a huge margin in d.c. it won’t even be funny. and he will probably win in maryland and virginia by pretty large margins too, unless the bradley effect is playing a major role in distorting the opinion polls coming out of those states, as happened in new hampshire. a week from tuesday there will be 2 more contests for hillary clinton and barack obama: hawaii and wisconsin. and who will win wisconsin and hawaii? nobody has done any polling in either state recently, so nobody has any idea. after that there are even more states, and the biggest one is texas, which votes on march 4 along with ohio, rhode island, and vermont. maybe on march 4 we will finally have a winner decided! we can only hope... or maybe a long, drawn-out contest would get more people interested in the political process and voting, and create more excitement for the democrats in november. whoever wins the democratic nomination ought to pick the runner-up as their running mate, giving us either an obama-clinton or a clinton-obama ticket. that is what we need to unify the party after this is over. picking anyone else as running mate would be an insult to everyone who voted for the 2nd place finisher in the primaries and caucuses. with a unified ticket, the “fairy tale” would have a happy ending: either ☻♂☺♀ or ☺♀☻♂ defeating the same old republican ticket of ☹♂☹♂ in november. and we will win despite having our candidates accused of being ☪ or ☭, and the next president will bring us ☮. in the meantime, it is winter, so go build a ☃.

oh, and here is a republican map, with john mccain blue, mike huckabee red, and mitt romney purple, since john mccain mostly wins blue states, mike huckabee mostly wins red states, and mitt romney is a completely dishonest politician who pretended to be liberal for years and then pretended to be conservative to run for president, so mitt romney is neither blue nor red, but purple: