Republican Candidacy Ends, Democratic Candidacy Revives

Greetings.

Upon entering John McCain’s website, a grand image of hills and a sunset is shown with the words “John McCain Wins Republican Nomination.” With his sweep of Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island, McCain gained the required number of delegates to gain the GOP nomination. Upon this sweep, former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee declared that while “it’s been a heckuva run,” he was dropping out of the race for the Republican candidacy. Though it was suggested to the former Governor, much earlier, to drop out of the race, Huckabee decided that he wanted to stay and “finish the game.” Yet with McCain gaining the 1,191 delegates to claim the nomination, Huckabee bowed out of the race, urging his supporters to back McCain in November.

Within the Democratic side of the race, there is a much different story though. Before Tuesday (according to CNN.com) Hilary Clinton stood at 1,275 pledged delegates and Obama at 1,511 pledged delegates towards the needed 2,024 delegates needed to win. With Obama on an eleven state winning streak, it was not unexpected for him to win Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island. Gaining all four would have given Obama 158 more delegates, putting him up 1,669 to Hilary’s 1,275 delegates, making it incredibly difficult to catch up and more then likely some of the superdelegates would put pressure for Clinton to drop out of the race. With Clinton’s winning of Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, the Democratic candidacy became a race once more.