Whereas Super Tuesday helped John McCain all but wrap up the Republican nomination (much to the chagrin of neo-conservative talking heads), it did no such favor to either of the remaining Democratic candidates. In fact, CNN reports that following yesterday's voting the two Democratic candidates are separated by only 0.4% in terms of overall votes:
Just how sharply are Democrats divided between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?
Of all the votes cast on Super Tuesday for the two candidates nationwide, they are only separated by 0.4 of a percentage point.
By midday Wednesday, 14,645,638 votes were reported cast for either Obama or Clinton on Tuesday. Clinton had won 7,350,238 of those votes (50.2 percent) while Obama captured 7,295,400 votes (49.8 percent).
Most precincts had reported 100 percent of their votes by Wednesday, though some districts had yet to complete their count. Many of those votes are in in New Mexico, where CNN has yet to declare a winner, and in California, where a sizeable number of absentee votes have yet to be tallied.
Despite her lead in the popular vote, some news organizations actually show Barack Obama as having the edge in delegates at the moment (but again, by a very slight margin). In addition, Obama appears to have a big financial advantage (the Obama campaign has a large reserve of funds to continue campaigning, whereas the Clinton campaign's staffers are actually going without pay to keep the campaign afloat). Then again, wasn't John McCain's campaign bankrupt and in disarray just a few months ago?
Yup, it looks like the Democratic nomination is shaping up to be quite a fight, and one that doesn't look like it'll be settled for another month at least (and possibly even into the DNC in late August).
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