Clinton and Obama should kiss and make up or risk a McCain landslide

THE US primaries are supposed to help parties select the best candidate for the Presidential election, but the Democrats could be on a hiding to nothing because they are deluding themselves.

Barack Obama has won 26 of the 43 states in which primaries have been held, along with Washington, DC. Hillary Clinton has only won 17 states, but if the same electoral college system were being used in the primaries as will be used in November, Clinton would already have won because she would have 284 delegates to Obama’s 201. Obama could win all the remaining seven states with their 52 votes, but he would still be well short.

When it comes to the presidential election Obama has no realistic chance of carrying many of the states in which he won primaries.