Politico.com reports that the suspense as to how this race may turn out is probably, of course, all for naught.
Link here:
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Elizabeth Drew over at Politico.com has a very revealing article that contains an interview with a high level congressional democratic superdelegate. The superdelegate told her as follows:
One Democratic leader told me, "If we overrule the elected delegates there would be mayhem." Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claim that she has, or will have, won the popular vote does not impress them – both because of her dubious math and because, as another key Democrat says firmly, "The rules are that it’s the delegates, period." (These views are closely aligned with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement earlier this year that the superdelegates should not overrule the votes of the elected delegates.)
Furthermore, the congressional Democratic leaders don’t draw the same conclusion from Pennsylvania and also earlier contests that many observers think they do: that Obama’s candidacy is fatally flawed because he has as yet been largely unable to win the votes of working class whites. They point out something that has been largely overlooked in all the talk – the Ohio and Pennsylvania primaries were closed primaries, and, one key congressional Democrat says, "Yes, he doesn’t do really well with a big part of the Democratic base, but she doesn’t do well with independents, who will be critical to success in November."
I don’t think anyone’s shaken," a leading House Democrat told me. The critical mass of Democratic congressmen that has been prepared to endorse Obama when the timing seemed right remains prepared to do so. Their reasons, ones they have held for months, have not changed – and by their very nature are unlikely to.
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This is awesome news on the superdelegate front for the junior senator from Illinois. This is probably the 50 or so superdelegate bloc that Tom Brokaw mentioned on MSNBC on March 4.
It's encouraging that Elizabeth drew also goes on to point out that the SD's aren't much worried about Wright and view this as something that will be old news by the election. And, above all else, the congressional superdelegates want to be re-elected. They know that Obama is best for the downticket candidates.
My opinion about Wright and Ayers et al is that Obama can use a stirring convention and acceptance speech to get beyond these distractions. That's why it is so important that this ends in June.
So, if you add up this major congressional block of SD's combined with the add on supers that he is likely to win, the math becomes even more desperate for the junior senator from New York.
It's great news that the superdelegates aren't being swayed by the corporate media's HRC love of recent days.
That's all:)