Paul Kane: 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.
Now that is some interesting news now isn't it?
But if y0u think that is even slowing Hillary down then you just don't know her very well.
Unhappy with the fact that Obama now has more delegates in Texas then she does Hillary's people are trying to unseat them: Frederick Barrow, an Obama supporter who chaired the Collin County credentials committee, alleged that Clinton supporters were only trying to unseat the delegation because Obama won more delegates from Collin County.
These superdelegates that are waiting to commit are really pissing me off. Why wait for Clinton to drop out? If they think the race is over, they could make it BE over by committing!
ReplyDeleteAfter this whole superdelegate fiasco, I think they know the whole primary system will be scrutinized before the next election. I think they are on a power trip since this may be the last election in which they hold any power at all. Can't happen soon enough for me. Superdelegates are undemocratic, same as the electoral college.
Amen, d.k., amen.
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