McCain clinches the Republican nomination

Now its official, McCain will be the Republican nominee as he won the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. His challenge now will be can he bring the conservative vote behind him without alienating the moderates who helped bring him this far. This will be no easy task, but not impossible. What is amazing about this is only six months ago, McCain was considered dead in the water, so talk about the comeback kid. If Clinton doesn't win the Democrat nomination, which looks more and more likely, that will mean neither of the two frontrunners of either party before the nominations (Guiliani for the Republicans and Clinton for the Democrats) won their nominations. Also Huckabee has thrown his support behind McCain and dropped out now that he has no chance of winning. It will be interesting to see if conservatives follow him or not. Anyways I will have more on the Democratic race later tonight when we find out who wins Ohio and Texas. The Republican race maybe over, but the Democrat race is far from over. So far Clinton has won Rhode Island and Obama has won Vermont, which is not a surprise. At least Clinton has ended Obama's winning streak, although neither state has a large enough delegates to make much of a difference, Ohio and Texas will make a far bigger difference and both are too close to call.