UPDATE: My first rec list diary! Thank you, everyone. Now I'm verklempt... Talk amongst yourselves.
UPDATE x2: Being plagiarized at MyDD is the sincerest form of flattery. I guess.
http://www.mydd.com/...
UPDATE x3: Some commenters disagreed with the "plagiarism" charge, so I removed it. My original thoughts on the matter explained here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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Mistress Jeralyn at TalkLeft, fresh off covering a new arrest warrant for Tony Rezko (because when Rezko is convicted, Obama will stand guilty of... something) bitterly reports the opinion of Washington Post journalist Paul Kane that the superdelegates are - how can I put this? - not taking Hillary's continuing candidacy quite as seriously as she does.
In an online chat, Kane was asked why his newspaper isn't covering the Rasmussen daily tracking polls of a hypothetical McCain-Clinton contest. His reply was priceless...
I've spent the past several months talking to as many super-delegates as any reporter in America, I'd guess, since I cover on a day-to-day basis about 280 of them here on Capitol Hill.
I hate saying this, because all the Clinton people are going to flip out and say, You're biased, you're biased, you're biased. So go ahead and flip out if you want, but the simple basic truth is that the super-delegates stopped paying attention to the Clinton-Obama race about a couple days after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
They've stopped paying attention to the primary, and instead they're focused on an Obama-McCain matchup in November. That's the basic, simple, definitive reality that has happened in this race. The "undecided" super-delegates at this moment are not going to "decide" any time soon, because to them the race is over, they're just waiting for Clinton to drop out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Demonstrating the unrivaled ability to not get the point that we've come to associate with Hillary supporters, another questioner demanded: Well, what about that Gallup poll showing Hillary doing better in the swing states, huh? What about that?
Kane sighed:
Again, don't yell at me because I'm only the messenger here. But the super-delegates have moved on, they're no longer looking at how Hillary Clinton fares in battleground states against McCain. This is very hard for Clinton supporters to hear, I'm sorry, but the super-delegates are not paying attention to your candidate anymore.
Ouch.