If you or I were Hillary and media types claimed to misunderstand what we said -- when we told them how long the primary process took in years past, that this year's is not unusual and that we will not cave in to the catcalls to quit -- I am confident we would tell these media types just where they could put it, in no uncertain terms!

And of course this is borne out by FACTS, as David Greenberg, Professor of History and Media Studies at Rutgers University, patiently explains in Slate:

"The calls to wrap up the Democratic primary race show ... amnesia. Indeed, were Hillary Clinton to have pulled out of the race this week, Obama would have actually clinched a contested race for the party's nomination earlier than almost any other Democrat since the current primary system took shape—the sole exception being John Kerry four years ago. Fighting all the way through the primaries, in other words, is perfectly normal.

... and to review the races ever since is to behold a panorama of Democratic infighting that makes the Clinton-Obama fisticuffs look tame."

Here's the stats to back up the FACTS of the ending date of Democratic Presidential Primaries:

1972 - June 21
1976 - June 15
1980 - all the way to the convention (Ted Kennedy finally surrendered)
1984 - June 25
1988 - into June
1992 - June (Bill had the nomination after the California Primary)

And of course the tragedy of 1968, when Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California Primary in June.

Greenberg closes with something that the Obamamaniacal media does not want us to know:  "We should also bear in mind that Obama holds a much slimmer lead over Clinton than McGovern, Carter, and Mondale held over their closest challengers—or, for that matter, than any of the nomination-bound front-runners in the elections since."

Read it all: http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/48015.html

Postively,
Carolan