AP Calls Race for Obama.

Ivon Denosovich · Jun 3, 2008

Now it's official, regardless of what Clinton says.

[Started this thread in addition to the "Bill- Clinton- May- Quit- Race- Thread" as that one was just speculation.]

Ivon Denosovich · Jun 3, 2008

From Reason:

The Politics of Basketball:

Some in the media are declaring the series over because the Boston Celtics have won four of the six games played so far. But I don’t understand why, with a series this close and hotly contested, anyone would want to shut it down before we play a seventh game and have all the results in. As anybody who follows the NBA knows, a seven-game series would be good for the league, and the added competition would make the eventual victor, whomever it might be, a stronger opponent against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals....

Yes, Boston has won four games and Detroit only two. But it's hard to imagine a more arbitrary and undemocratic way to determine this series’s outcome than "games won." It is, after all, a bedrock value of the game of basketball that all points must be counted. But how can that be the case when every point beyond the winning point is ignored? There are literally dozens of layups, jumpers, free throws, and (yes, even) dunks that our opponents want to say don't count for anything at all. We call on the NBA to do the right thing and fully count all of the baskets that were made throughout the course of this series.

Once you abandon the artificial four-games-to-two framework that the media has tried to impose on the series, a very different picture emerges, with the Celtics leading by a mere 549 points to 539. Yes that’s right, the margin between the two teams is less than one percent -- a tie, for all intents and purposes. This is probably the closest Conference Finals in NBA history, though I will thank you not to check on that.
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Martin · Jun 3, 2008

Ivon Denosovich said:

Now it's official, regardless of what Clinton says.

[Started this thread in addition to the "Bill- Clinton- May- Quit- Race- Thread" as that one was just speculation.]
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Clearly Obama has won the race. The AP, and a few others, is just being honest about it. MSNBC and CNN are staying below the "magic" number to justify their several hours long coverage of this "event". Obama is the Democratic nominee.

Baptist in Richmond · Jun 3, 2008

Let's just hope he beats McCain. That LAST thing we need are more Supreme Court Justices like Alito.....

Regards,
BiR

carpro · Jun 3, 2008

The AP really went out on a limb, there.

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