Thanks. Aside from morning Joe and evening Pat, the MSM may not be as quick to rubber-stamp the Clinton talking points anymore. I'm hearing a lot of is-she-serious? behind a lot of the "More people have voted for me than any other..."

I second Ben here. The problem is that a lot of the remeaining superdelegates are weasels.

Either they are too spineless to offend either candidate and hope it somehow gets resolved on its own (meanwhile possibly hurting the party for November) or they want to be courted (Edwards?)

The whole system of supers should be scrapped. It's undemocratic, clearly these people do not have the character for this role, and mathematically, we are left with them deciding it.

If Obama wins both NC and Indiana I think there will be a wave of SD endorsements quick to follow. If he splits, I think the SD's will continue to sit on the sidelines, if Hillary wins both I think she'll start to gain real momentum with the SD's.

If Hillary wins both NC and IN, she would deserve to have supers float her way. Obama will win NC, just a question of the margin. The idea that a split would leave them paralyzed is pisses me off. These people have NO courage. But then, we new that by their unwillingness to curtail Bush since they took control of congress.

Over by this weekend? I'm just hoping it will be over on June 3rd, and not go all the way to Denver.

http://www.mrsuper.org/2008/04/superdelegate-p.html

An undeclared superdelegate estimates how many of his undeclared colleagues are in the Pelosi Club (committed to voting for the leader in pledged delegates).

It looks to be about 80 right now.

Mr Super also links to some predictions at CCPS that estimate the great majority who are not in the Pelosi Club will break for Obama. From comments in previous posts he does not seem to be disputing this.

Not very solid evidence at this point, but I fully expect this story line will pick up steam.

Clinton is meeting with the supers the last two days to try and get them to hold off. You also hear this plea from her surrogates. Could be she convinces them to wait for NC and IN.

Watch out for Barry-O on Fox News Sunday. This could be the big one.

They probably had to give him a list of ???? in advance to get him to agree to appear. With enough study time he may be able to come up with some semi-acceptable answers, if not, he will just try to change the subject. and uh, uh and.

But, Chris just might slip him a mickey.

Well, that would be nice, but those superdels aren't all gonna decide this weekend. Most will hold out until June to at least allow all the voting to happen. Some will continue to trickle in as they have, and my guess is that most have already made up their minds but are timing their announcements so as to help maintain their candidate's momentum, without making it appear that they're calling the game before all the last votes have been counted. But, we'll see.

I'd say Clinton is just pushing for a VP slot. Nothing else makes sense to me. I really don't think the Democratic Party will take the nomination away from a Black man with the most pledged delegates, popular vote and states won. The party would be crippled for a generation. She has to know this and merely wants to push her supporters to the brink where nothing less than a VP slot is acceptable. It just makes more sense that way to me. The reason to call for the SDs to wait is to drive up the percentage of her supporters who say they wouldn't vote for Obama in the Fall. It's a cynical game, but I wouldn't put it past the Clintons.