Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Hillary Denies Ceding the Race

before i checked cnn i was -- how do they say -- cautiously optimistic that hillary would acknowledge obama as the nominee tonight. i knew it was too good to be true. seems the ap report below is incorrect, according hillary's peeps. whatever.

ap: Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation's first female president.

Obama is 40 delegates shy of clinching the nomination, but he is widely expected to make up the difference Tuesday with superdelegate support and votes in South Dakota and Montana. Once he reaches the magic number of 2,118, Clinton will acknowledge that he has secured the necessary delegates to be the nominee.

The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City.

She will pledge to continue to speak out on issues like health care. But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.