SAY WHAT!
Hillary Clinton may have won California, but Barack Obama edges the former First Lady by 9 delegates :
In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.
The Obama camp projects topping Clinton by nine delegates, 845 to 836.
NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party's complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton.
Now add to that the fact he won huge in a lot of the "white" states from South to West, and we have the makings of a dragged-out primary race for the Democratic Party.
That'll teach the Democrats to never, ever market a candidate as "inevitable" they way they did with Hillary Clinton.
Los Angeles times is on the money with their analysis :
Democrats who once thought their race would wrap up early instead face a potentially long duel between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, with votes divided not by ideology but, in many states, by race and ethnic group.
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