Any country that would elect George W. (God help us) obviously prefers familiarity. We know what to expect with Clinton or McCain. Obama's all talk. No matter what people SAY ideologically, when push comes to shove they will choose a known Republican before Obama.

Cinthia, Beverly Hills, United States

The American people have a test, the test is a simple one can you define what is wrong in your country?. So far the American Public has failed. Who elected G W Bush, the American people. So why complain now, because you have no Jobs you're becoming homeless, and oil prices. that's what you voted for

Daphne Kenward, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Barack Obama is THE BEST CANDIDATE for the presidency. He is all inclusive he is intelligent, he is visionery; We know what Clinton represents, she can misrepresent facts and when exposed she relabls them "mispoke" facts. Clinton can clearly talk race and flatly refuse when confronted.

Margaret Kalilani, London, UK

Obama can win against Clinton, but Clinton can win against McCain. Step back from the hype for a bit and see that there's a reason why there are many Republicans who are "supporting" Obama.

This type of division keeps the Democrats weak. Republicans might win again. War and draft, anyone?

Paul Jay, SB, USA

All said and done this is a man's world! A man gets away with so much more, then a Hillary comes along and well ochestrated witch hunt is set about! Tried and tested misogynic tropes of 'cold and calculating woman who would stop at nothing' are resurrected. The headline of this piece sums it all!

Ad, London ,

Isn't it great! Both Democrats are losing. We'll have a Republican president for the next eight years. Lets see, we can get rid of such worries as climate change, pollution, Iraq, the poverty gap and a black or a woman in the White House. A new dawn is surely breaking for America!

Bob, Reno, USA

It's irrelevant whether Obama is better than Clinton , or not. America STILL doesn't accept that a "non-white" could be its President. And the rest of the world does not need another President who thinks that invading other countries is the solution to the world's problems.

CB, Caracas, Venezuela

Hillary Clinton is for zero abortions (though not legislated) & Barack Obama is for partial-birth abortion & says unwanted pregnancy for young woman is "punishment." We need a sensititve &bright man or woman for the White House & it isn't Barack. Compare their generosity (taxes) too. Clinton wins.

Bevv, Accord, USA

experience vs inspiration. Two good candidates and the democratic party squabbles, biting its own tail. Obama is not ready, Clinton is. Clinton does not inspire the youth, Obama does. Rove smiles and pretends to pray.

Rick, Cincinnati,

Hillary's negative polling numbers have gone up since she began the negative campiagning--and they have not gone down since. The woman is too polarizing a figure. If you think there are Democrats who will not vote for Obama (over Hillary) far more will not vote for Hillary in the general election.

Martin , Chicago, illinois, USA

Barack Obama "limping on?" You must be kidding. Hillary netted less than 15 delegates from the PA contest, and her campaign was essentially bankrupted. I would say that time and money are running out for HRC, and she is the one who is limping towards an inevitable conclusion--she's going to lose.

Martin , Chicago, illinois, USA

Sorry folks, but the torch has been passed to a new generation and its leader is Barack Obama.

Deborah, Los Angeles, USA

If you throw enough mud on a wall, some of it is bound to stick.
Yet, Obama is ahead in the delegate count, which is how the race is really decided.

Shiv, Boston, USA

First, Clinton would need to win by 20% to be statistically significant. This is particularly true since 6 weeks ago she was at 20%. Secondly, only Congress can declare war -- so even as President she wouldn't have the power to "obliterate" anyone, unless they attacked the US directly.

Alexandra, Loveland, USA

The Democratic party is now split - Will the other half of the party rally round the winner if this carries on to August? With all this infighting, I think McCain has already got November in his pocket.

Heather Hinds, Croydon, UK

Democrats for McCain ! I am one and there are many more out there. I don't think it matters who wins the Democratic nomination - McCain will win anyway. Let the two of them keep tearing strips off each other - it just makes a McCain victory more certain.

Michael, Charlottesville, Virginia

Obama must win, if the super delegates overturned the decision of the party at large it would make Clinton unelectable - it would be completely undemocratic and would be a betrayal of the African American electorate, without which the democrats could not win in any case.

tomfinn, edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM

"Limping on" and "growing doubts"... I'm sorry, but I was expecting journalism on this site, not some stale rephrasing of Clinton's campaign rhetoric. I like a British perspective on events, but it would be nice to see one that is both independent and informed.

Michael, Munich, Germany

Wake up..all this is intended to diminish the standing of an outstanding black man. There is fear in the white community of being led by a person of colour.What these narrow minded bigots have to remember the president of the United States is the leader of the 'free world'. Obama would endear the US

Vernon Butcher, BASINGSTOKE, England

I'm black and British and have been watching the campaign with interest. Clinton has to be nominated if the Democrats have any chance at all in November. Apart from Obama's relative lack of experience, if he is nominated, we will see the most brutal character assassination in history.

James Kpekawa, London,

Americans may find themselves out of touch with not only their needs but the whole worlds. They say they are the guardians of morale rightness in the world - but then allow bigotry to blight their presidential race. Is this the leadership the world needs?
It may be time for others to lead LOOK EAST

Vernon Butcher, BASINGSTOKE, England

A race isn't over until the finish line and there's a long way to go.

Hilary in '08!

Nona, New York City, USA

Senator Obama and his team have signed up 200,000 or so new voters, 75 percent republican. I cannot imagine republicans whose views so differ from his serious are going to vote for him in November. Plus he lost me with his association and participations with anti-americans. He doesn't like us.

Pam, Washington, D.C., USA

The U.S.A. will never elect a black man or a woman if there is a half decent alyernative. McCain is a shoe-in for November.

David, sydney, australia

Obama does not have a hope. He has always been making up the numbers so the Democrats can show there was a democratic 'process'. Only someone who has told Iran she will wipe them from the face of the earth if they attack Israel is strong enough for the job.

Patrick, Ipswich, UK

STOP SAYING DOUBLE DIGITS!! She won by 9.4, which is 9, which is single digits. No, it doesn't matter, only it really does: the election (primary and general) is won and lost in the TV studios and on front pages. Don't give them fake soundbytes.

sue, oxon,

It would be super to have

Obama as president and Clinton as vice president

or

Clinton as president and Obama as vice president


Either way the vote would be strong for the democrates to win.

Not being American, all I want is for USA to stop the war in Iraq.

Nicholas Iles, Oswestry, Shropshire

OBAMA Spends 12 million plus in negative ads attacking Clinton and still LOSES BIG IN PA! by double digits!!

Obama caught again playing the politics he attacks other for! This guy is a looser!

http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/rnc-documents-obamas-29minute-conversion_576656_1.html

As a Senator Clinton supporter we will NEVER support Obama because of his lies, corrupt financial friends, racist wife, American and white hater and spiritual advisor Wright that he defends and well-known terrorist connections that also write for the bulletin at TCC Where the Obamas believe is a great atmosphere to raise two young children, he openly supports the crazy rantings of the American hate & white man hate. He is not worthy to lead our great country

Surely proved if Obama would become Democratic nominee he will certainly lose the general election: Obama's camp philosophy of his cadre amount to one big put-down of America. President represents something very personal to Americans who proved they are not in the habit of electing candidates who hold their country in contempt. Not only have the comments of Obama's wife, Michelle who referred to America as "downright mean" and stated that she was not proud of her country until her husband started winning primaries and his minister, Jeremiah Wright (whose hateful, anti-white, anti-American diatribes are available for sale in Obama's church, or for free on YouTube) revealed the tired, leftist scorn for America that Obama represents and condones. Obamas own remarks have exposed this ugly, unelectable side. Obama attempted to explain his persistent deficit in Pennsylvania primary polls by describing small-town Americans as "bitter" people who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." This is hard stuff, and patronizing, besides. Add to this Obama's characterizations of the "typical white person" describing his grandmother, whom he tossed under the campaign bus to create a false equivalence with Wright's racism and one finds something far more damaging than a simple series of gaffes its a window into how the Obama sees his countrymen. Obama's associations in addition to Anti- American Wright, speak to this unappealing point of view. William Ayers, a domestic terrorist enjoys a friendly relationship with the Obamas. Voters are learning ( with no help from media like CNN & MSNBC, Ayers bombed the Pentagon on May 19, 1972, and fondly recalls, "The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them." Ayers and his accomplices also bombed the U.S. Capitol, the State Department, as well as banks, police stations and courthouses. Obama has defended Wright insisting that he merely represents the convention of "Black Liberation Theology," as though this were just some quaint offshoot of traditional Christianity. One need not pore over the tenets of Black Liberation Theology or its founder, James Hal Cone -- although a Google search of either would provide a world of clarity to the undecided voter to recognize that a would-be President who cannot utterly disassociate himself from such racist, anti-American rubbish lacks sufficient character and affinity for his country's ideals to be its leader. Americans understand that their president's instinct ought to be to defend the nation against unfair invective, not embrace those who purvey it or, in the case of Ayers, seek to blow it up altogether.

lou, charlotte, nc

Great headline!

tk, london,

Dirty is cool in US.

P Granger, Kent, UK

I, being from the UK, do not listen to all the back stabbing that goes on in this Obama/Clinton election. From this side of the 'pond' we clearly see that a Democrat in the White House and change in US policy would be beneficial for both the US and the rest of the world. Clinton has more chance!

R.Hawkins, Canterbury, UK

If the media and press had been honest about Sen. Obama from the start...because they knew about his Reverand, Ayers, Rezko, etc... There is no way those who voted months ago would have supported him.

Pam, Washington, D.C., USA

America runs the risk of internal divisions, as well as external divisions, due to their foreign policies. I think the American people suffer from complaisancy, taking people for granted. When people have no jobs, no food, no homes, no cars, no transport infrastructure, in this wasteful society.

Daphne Kenward, Cambridge, United Kingdom

What lunatics want Obama as the most powerful man in the free world?

He has a murky background and 30 years of training with a lunatic pastor.

If you hated the Kennedy dynasty, then you hate the Clinton dynasty for the wrong reasons.

Islam is a dangerous and patient crusade.

David Ryan, Manchester, UK

Obama is the kind of person who takes running as a candidate seriously, and wants to do this job of changing the status quo, from waste to productivity, unity instead of divisions.The America that was no longer is. Things have changed not only in America but world wide. Bio fuel will cause Famine.

Daphne Kenward, Cambridge, United Kingdom

I have a great praise for a Man a candidate who is righteous n attempts to restrain from bad politics, stay original n not into some mudslinging n not cross any limit just to grab the nomination. Imperfection is imbibed to human being, we need a person firm in his belief and not a super human.

sanjay, Newyork, US

"Hippocracy"?"Are Kids"?"To much time"?"Than that goes to show"?"She one by 10 percentage points"?Shurley we ned 2 spend mor maney on Eddicashum in Da Us of Eh?

Ian, Nishio, Japan

The margin was only 10%. I thought from the headlines it was much larger.

Now lets play this out. If HRC goes back to Pennsylvania and says vote for Barack, will they?

And if they won't, does she really have their confidence?

Jo, Olney, Uk

If Obama had any experience I could understand voting for him, but this is his third year in the Senate, and he has avoided 33% of the votes - so far. What are Obamas qualifications? Change? Hope? Simply words. This man is nothing more than an empty suit.

Nona, New York City, USA

How would it look if the results were Winner takes all not PR as it will be come the reall election. Look at the big states..

rob, manchester,

Lets face it. Obama GETS his support from the blacks and a sprinkling of well do "liberal" whites. He is not made of the right stuff. The democratic party is most likelyt to lose if they nominate him as their candidate.

Baskar, Paris ,

It's curious that the candidate who's lead for two months, who won one delegate less than Clinton in PA (and who won Texas, by the way, after a delayed count), can be characterized as "limping on." Unless you're talking about the swings at Obama's knees by way of her negative campaign tactics.

Damon, Dayton, OH, USA

It is HRC and not Obama who understands the evil men in Iran who train their surrogates in Iraq to behead and perform acts of barbarism. Obama will, like Carter before him, bring humiliation on USA and by extension, to the rest of free world. His message of change is change to what?

Malenkov, The hague, Netherlands

Obama has won despite the fact that the party primary base is 58% women. Yes! 58% women. Despite this fact he is the leading on all fronts. That is the hard cold truth in this. Women vote for HRC. White men and Black for Obama.
They have identical positions on everything. So it comes down to this. However there is stark differences between Obama v McCain which can be made. Hence why the Dem nominee has the upper hand. Hence also why HRC is dogged not to lose.

The supers would be MAD to go against the most loyal voting bloc in the party. The African- American vote. They cannot win, under circumstances without this bloc.

Sharon Wilkes, Wilmington, DE, USA

"Limps on"? Maybe you guys need to stick to European politics, because you clearly don't know how to count delegates for American elections. Seriously: what are you talking about? Obama won almost as many delegates as Clinton did. "Limps on"... gimme a break.

Glenda, Portland, USA

For the life of me , I can't understand why the rantings
of Rev. Wright would mean more to people than Sen.Clinton
saying she would olbiterate Iran. She is a hawk just like
McCain. She has never beat the republicans! They have
worn her down for years and years. NAFTA and IRAQ just
two!!!

gayle, Portland, USA

Politics & Politicans are a mastermind of hippocracy. America has been a country divided, on race Religion class, gender. It come to a point where these issues could be brought out, in the healing prosess, like South Africa, it is not perfect but there are issues there, deal with it move on.

Daphne Kenward, Cambridge, United Kingdom

i'm very dissapointed that the politics of fear is among us. Having 3 children, my concern is for the future the present. We should be teaching are kids a better lesson where race plays a part in making decision for your future. It's true we are bitter.

max st.arromand, hartford, us

He's not exactly "limping". Hillary had a huge 20 point lead in PA not long ago, yet Obama halved that margin. He increased his support among older and blue collar voters. And because the result was relatively close, her net gain in delegates was only 12!

Mark Owen, New York,

Roll on Mrs C Great policies. A threat of an Iranian war centred around Israel and the MIddle East and a promise to overcome the high oil price, attracts the votes of a people that doesn't understand, you CAN'T bomb your way out of everything or ignore supply/demand economic. Truly staggering.

Robbie, Plymouth, UK

America is spending to much time on race and not who is right to run this country. If we can let Bush run this country than that goes to show we are not focused on our future. It is so sad that racism still exist because if not we might be able to make this world a better place.

shelice jones, irvington , USA

The exit polls indicated that Mrs. Clinton only had a four point lead, but she one by 10 percentage points.

Given the apparent reluctance of the Pa electorate to accurately declare for whom they voted in the exit polling, I am not sure how much one can rely on the other exit poll responses.

Stephen Gianelli, San Francisco, USA