Clinton spends to win, but comes up short

Now that the dust has cleared and Obama is the Democrat nominee for the race for the White House, numbers are coming out from Clinton's ill-fated campaign. According to this article, Clinton spent $109,823 per delegate, at 1,926 delegates. This is a record setting number for a Democratic candidate to spend, and lose out on the nomination. The article goes on to list a bunch of alternatives for her money spent versus her failed campaign, like buying everyone in NYC a lottery ticket. I personally think it's great to see progress in politics, but I got a sense from Clinton and her campaign that she felt she was supposed to win, that she was entitled to it, so dumping money into the campaign even after she began to slip made sense to me. It will be very interesting to see what route she takes if Obama doesn't take her on as the VP, or does offer her the spot. Earlier in the race it seemed that she wouldn't want to take the VP spot, but that was when she was still in a position to win the nomination. Now her supporters are applying pressure to add her to the ticket, it almost comes across as desperation from her die hard supporters that may not vote for Obama unless she's on the ticket. I think it would be smarter for Obama to take someone else, if you take Hilary, you get Bill... and that package might be another example of the saying, "three's a crowd." As for the money spent, Obama will probably pick up a large portion of the tab, but it's not like the Clinton's don't have the money. It also proves that money doesn't win elections; and just because you feel that you are going to win, and everyone says you are the leading candidate early in the race, doesn't mean you'll take it wire-to-wire.

Anthony Majewski POS1041 MTW 5:30