Eleven Points of Logic

1. Senator Clinton should drop out of the race if it is mathematically impossible for her to win or her continuation in the race would seriously damage the party.

2. Clinton has to win each and every one of the remaining contests with MORE THAN 60% in order to take over the pledged delegate lead. *

3. There is no reason to think Clinton will do significantly better in future contests than in those she has won thus far.

4. With the exception of Arkansas, Clinton hasn’t received 60% of the vote in any contest- not even in her home state of New York.

UPDATE: It seems that a lot of commenters who disagree with me are arguing that this isn't about revenge, just that Republicans need to "see what it feels like". This seems like an awfully weak rationale. Does anyone reasonably believe that there is any end to such "demonstration" of power? What stops the Republicans from doing the same thing whenever they get the majority back? An eye for eye makes the whole world blind and all that. But even more, this strategy is a winning one only for the party that wants to undermine government, not for us.

I could not more vigorously disagree with Markos's recent post stating that our Congressional leadership should reciprocate the Republicans anti-democratic procedural rules to "teach them a lesson". This is asking not just for Democratic collapse, but for a crushing blow to our democracy generally.

WSYR-TV(Channel 9) in Syracuse and the Syracuse Post-Editor jointly commissioned a poll, but after seeing that the results favored the Democratic challenger, they've refused to release it claiming that the poll was improperly conducted. But John Zogby, the pollster they hired, has insisted that the results are reliable!