It’s going to Denver. It’s going there because it must. It’s going there because there is no rational way for it to go anywhere else.
First of all, Obama: he simply cannot come up with the 2025 needed to nominate before Denver, even though this has been his supporters’ main argument against Hillary for weeks now - that she couldn’t possibly get a majority. If he had managed to win Texas, he would have been on track, and could have collected enough super delegates to make up the shortfall well before the convention. But, he didn’t. And to make things worse, he confessed to lying about Rezko in at least two areas and had Jeremiah Wright blow up on him since.
Next, the Super Delegates: while they would have loved to have a consensus nominee so they could jump on the bandwagon, they don’t, and these are seasoned political people (so they know how fast things can change in a close race). Obama is virtually guaranteed to hit the convention with more “pledged” delegates, more states won (whatever that means, since most of them were small red states anyway), and probably a plurality of the popular votes cast (if you don’t count Florida and Michigan - their penalty was losing their delegates, now does their “popular vote” get thrown out, too?) in the primaries, but he won’t have enough delegates to either win the nomination or control the convention. There’s five months between now and then, with a few more primaries and a lot more chances for someone to screw up and make the decision easier. Why not wait, if uncommitted now?
Finally, Hillary: she has absolutely no reason to quit, because Obama doesn’t have that majority. As long as he doesn’t have it, she may be able to get it. Whether it is through his own self-destruction or otherwise, there remains the chance his boat will sink by or before Denver. Why then would she quit, having come this far? And tell those who donated millions of dollars to her campaign that she wouldn’t see it through? Not on your life!
See y’all in Denver. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, and a gas mask.