The Sound and The Fury … for Naught

According to Real Clear Politics this morning — from Pennsylvania to Guam, from Indiana to North Carolina — Sen. Clinton achieved a delta of 3,365 votes and 0 delegates.

Elaborating:

Of the 349 pledged delegates up for grabs in the three most recent primary states plus Guam, RCP estimates Clinton took 171 and Obama took 171 — for a delta of 0, with seven yet-to-be-determined.

Of the 5.1 million votes cast and counted, Clinton received 2,558,526 … Obama received 2,555,161 — for a delta of 3,365 in Clinton’s favor, a fraction of a percentage of what she needed to gain to begin closing the gap in Obama’s lead in the popular vote, which ranges from nearly 90,000 to more than 820,000 depending on your counting preference.

Considering all of this, can someone please explain to me — after weeks of horrible things said about and between the candidates, after millions of dollars spent — why is this race continuing? How, exactly, is this delay of the inevitable useful or constructive or productive?