Senator Barack Obama is 42 delegates shy of the number required to clinch the Democratic nomination. (The number changed when the rules committee decided to award Florida and Michigan the ability to seat their full number of delegates, but counting each delegate as half) 31 delegates are up for grabs tonight in the final two contests of the Democratic primary process, which admittedly isn't enough to sow it up for Obama this evening, but reports indicate that after the two processes end a number of the Super Delegates (about 200 of which remain uncommitted) will flock to his side giving him the requisite 2118 delegates ending the long and hard fought nomination process.
The Associated Press announced that Clinton was ready to concede the race either this evening after the two final primaries or tomorrow morning, but only minutes later, Senator Clinton's Campaign Chair refuted that story. (Read CNN's article here)
My feelings are that chances are good that Obama will have the requisite number of Delegates to claim victory this evening and shortly after Clinton will concede, but due to the fact that there are two contests remaining today, Clinton doesn't want the news that she is preparing to concede to get to the public.
Either way, Nancy Pelosi seems determined that the race will be over by the end of this month saying, "I will step in, because we cannot take this fight to the convention." She was saying that she will make sure that the remaining Super Delegates make their decision to back Obama or Clinton and bring this long race to an end so that the party can get itself together in order to take on McCain in November.
It should be an interesting night as six months of Obama/Clinton might finally come to an end just in time for six months of Obama/Clinton together against McCain. (I officially now believe that such a pairing is not only possible, but probable. I'll have more on that in it's own post.)
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