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We need to rethink the conventional wisdom that the Clintons will find some way to eke out the nomination by winning a few key states down the road (i.e. Ohio, Texas) and then piling up on the superdelegates during the convention (and maybe even getting Michigan and Florida to have their delegates counted) and then after all that, expecting the Obama voters to rally behind the Hildabeast for the general election.

I think Obama's huge margin of victory in many of these states combined with the sheer number of states he has won has taken the above option out of play. Obama voters will now not be content with anything less than the nomination, and any kind of trickery or smoky backroom manipulation of superdelegates by the Clintons to take away what is now perceived to be Obama's, will not go over well at all.

The notion that Obama's base will follow the Clintons like lemmings if Obama gets the nomination stolen from him should now be discarded.

I also doubt very much that Obama, having won the nomination, will even consider the Clintons as his running mate. Why would he? It would provoke the same reaction among us should a true conservative win the nomination and then pick somebody like McCain for a running mate.