The hills Appalachian Mountains are alive with the sound of music. And it’s not bluegrass. Instead, it’s MC Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit."
Hillary Clinton won Kentucky with 65 percent of the vote to Barack Obama’s 30 percent. And now Clinton can't quit when “hearing the sound of your overwhelming vote of confidence even in the face of tough odds”:
Some have said your votes didn't matter, that this campaign was over, that allowing everyone to vote and every vote to count would somehow be a mistake. But that didn't stop you. You’ve never given up on me because you know I’ll never give up on you.
This is one of the closest races for a party's nomination in modern history. We’re winning the popular vote and I’m more determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot counted.
Clinton added:
And I’m going on now to campaign in Montana, South Dakota, and Puerto Rico. And I’m going to keep standing up for the voters of Florida and Michigan. Democrats in those two states cast 2.3 million votes and they deserve to have those votes counted. That's why I’m going to keep making our case until we have a nominee, whoever she may be.
As I watched Clinton's victory speech, it was déjà vu all over again when I saw folks holding signs “Count Every Vote.”
But Obama isn’t singing the blues. He handily beat Clinton in Oregon. With that victory, he declared he has a majority of the pledged delegates:
We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people, and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in America.
But neither Obama nor Clinton has reached the 2,025 2,026 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. So it’s on to Puerto Rico or wherever.
