An August Finale for the Democrats?

Well big news this past weekend, Sen. Hillary Clinton won Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary. While this is certainly a huge plus for Clinton, at this state in the race, and unfortunately for her, winning Puerto Rice is liking getting honorable mention. No offense to the senator, but while Clinton had quite the lead ahead of Sen. Obama, he still leads in delegates needed to win the party's nomination. Obama has 2,076 delegates, Clinton has 1,918, and to claim victory they need to have 2,118.

But don't worry sports fans, the two senators will go head to head on Tuesday, and they will do it in the states. Nothing personal to Puerto Rico, but until I see a star representing you on the flag, there's no reason you should be voting in an American election, commonwealth or not. And what's the point? Puerto Rico can't even vote in the general election. But hey, Puerto Rico was able to bring a smile to Hillary's face, even is she's not seeing the outcome we've all been seeing for the past couple of months.

The final primaries in Montana and South Dakota mark the final innings in the Democratic primaries. And while Obama does have a substantial leap ahead of Clinton, South Dakota and Montana only offer the Illinois senator 31 delegates, not enough to officially call victory. So while it seems that Obama will likely being taking the gold, it all lies with the delegates, especially with those super-delegates. With the Democratic convention in August, Democrats can only hope that with whoever wins the nomination, they are still able to beat out Sen. John McCain. So unless Hillary Clinton sees the light and gets behind Sen. Obama, we're looking at an August Finale for the Democrats.