The Long March to the White House

To no one’s surprise, Mitt Romney pledged his support to John McCain yesterday. Romney’s 286 delegates are not obligated to swing to McCain, but the majority most likely will. This puts McCain only a few delegates away from clinching the nomination. It was expected that Romney would eventually support McCain, especially since his given reason for suspending his own campaign was to repair splits in the Republican Party and prepare for a full assault on the Democrats in November. Mike Huckabee still sees things differently and continues in the race, in spite of increasing pressure, and even ridicule, from the media.

On Tuesday, the GOP has 40 delegates that are up for grabs in Wisconsin, then a total of 274 delegates will be awarded one way or another on March 4th. That’s the day that Ohio and Texas (also Rhode Island and Vermont) go to the polls. If McCain takes it all, the race is decided on the GOP side. Even if Huckabee takes Texas as he plans, McCain could still reach the magic number of 1,191.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has stepped-up her attacks on Barack Obama, in an attempt to stop the ‘bleeding away’ of delegates and support for her campaign. With Obama on a roll, even Super Delegates formerly pledged to Clinton are switching allegiance to the Obama camp. The caucus in Hawaii and primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday means 111 delegates are at stake. Then the big numbers in Ohio and Texas on March 4th will decide whether Obama or Clinton will leap forward toward the nomination. Of course, the Dems have to know that nothing will be finally decided until all of those Super Delegates are heard from. Then there is the little matter of the Michigan and Florida delegates being reinstated - or not!

Well, it looks like the march to the White House continues on and on and on.

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