The Proof is in the Pudding The SD's are all moving to Obama . He is less than 20 behind despite MSM

[Dyllyn]

Obama is cutting Hill's SD lead almost by the hour . Everytime the media or Hill kick him to the ground an SD comes to the rescue . God Bless America folks . There Times they are a changing . What is sad and I mean this as a Clinton lover . Bill brought us 8 good years and they are destroying the love people have for them by trying to destroy a fellow party member and my guess a friend .

Get this straight folks Obama supporters have said nasty things about Hillary but Obama has not . That is a fact . He has not attacked her on anything personal. I hope she remembers that when this is over and I hope and pray she will do everything in her power to get Obama elected . She owes him that much seeing as she is currently the Republicans greatest asset against him come November.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Super Delegates were a bad idea until they started to favor Obama. Interesting! nt

[Pawel K]

4. They are a bad idea. I don't know what the OP has to do with that fact.

[MindMatter]

15. Without SDs, this would have been over a month ago

as it should have been. While there may be some wisdom in a council of elders to come to the fore if the normal nomination process can't sort things out adequately, that was not the case this cycle. The primaries and caucuses were able to produce a clear victor. And what about this rag tag mob the party calls Superdelegates. Those aren't a council of elders. Hell, many of them aren't even identified yet. This is an asinine system that must be changed, even if it doesn't royally mess things up this time around.

[Texas Hill Country]

22. without proportional bullshit, it would have been over a month ago too...

[The_Counsel]

5. Nice Straw Man...

Superdelegates in general isn't what's a bad idea. Throwing their overwhelming support behind the candidate that's behind in every other metric is.

Hell, the only reason Hillary had more than 200 in her corner by January is because most of them owed Bill a favor or three. S'okay, though... ;)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. I'm for getting rid of the supers. 100%.

[Captain Hilts]

18. We don't need no House of Lords making decisions for us! nt

[tekisui]

19. Very well, lets go solely on Pledged Delegates.

Change it for next time, you sound petty complaining about it now.

[KittyWampus]

8. No, super delegates were part of the rules from the beginning. See, Obama supporters don't support

changing the rules in the middle of the contest.

[Mooney]

2. I notice that HRC supporters keep overlooking this.

The superdelegates are HRC's only possible path to the nomination, and she's losing them every day. Once those are gone, she'll be behind Obama in every conceivable metric that exists, besides combativeness and resume-padding.

[Dyllyn]

21. I keep missing you but I have to tell you we have the same name.

[Mooney]

23. It's not really my name.

I hope you don't mind me abusing it.

[Dyllyn]

26. That's fine . Go for it !!!!

[JackORoses]

3. bring on the Supers

Hillary wants to live by the Superdelegate Sword,
but instead, she will 'die' by it.


(Notice I had to put die in quotes so no rabid Hillarite reports me to the FBI.)

[cascadiance]

6. She will die by the sword, or the superdelegates voting against the will of the people will!

Either way, we get rid of some of those in government that are working against the principles of democracy that this party is supposed to espouse.

I think most super delegates realize this and know that they shouldn't put their careers on the line just to "pay back a favor" to the Clintons.

[KittyWampus]

9. You are wrong, Hillary has also gotten Super D. endorsements and just scored one today.

[scheming daemons]

10. Since PA: 7 for Obama... 4 for Clinton.....

[KittyWampus]

11. true, however the OP says "All". Not true.

[Dyllyn]

13. Fair point . However at a rate of 2 to 1 that will do nicely

She really needs it to be 3 to 1 for her

[RiverStone]

12. Good post and a wise observation!

Oh, and welcome to DU Dyllyn! :hi: :pals:

K&R

[Dyllyn]

14. Thanks Buddy

I feel Obama needs all the help he can get in his hour of need

[MindMatter]

16. We're at MAGIC NUMBER time

Obama has 1729, needs 2024 to clinch

That's just 295 needed.

There are 297 superdelegates left.

Obviously if Obama wins all the remaining SDs he doesn't have to win another delegate in a primary or caucus.

Or going the other way, there are 408 pledged delegates left to assign. If he won 73% of the remaining contests, he wouldn't need a single additional SD. That' isn't going to happen, of course. But what is more likely is that he'll get about half of the remaining pledged delegates.

That would leave him needing only 93 more superdelegates. Considering Dean is pushing for this to be wrapped up by June, that means that there should be about 200 declarations in the next 40 days -- about 5 a day. It gets interesting now.

[barack the house]

17. Thank you we appreciate that. I feel overall our side has tried to respect your side as voters,..

Just disagred with campaign tactics towards our candidate. Which isn't unreasonable, really.

[jenmito]

20. I wonder why the only SD endorsement I've heard about on tv today was Hillary's when Obama got at

LEAST 2 today!

[The Stranger]

24. It can't come soon enough.

[kenny blankenship]

25. "she is currently the Republicans greatest asset against him come November."

Let's face it: She's the ONLY HOPE Republicans have.