Pennsylvania outcome could sway undecided super-delegates

[GoldieAZ49]

Hillary is going to hammer him on the campaign trail, maybe not the debate, but this win and next few will be crucial, maybe it could end before the convention.

It could also sway some SD's that have endorsed and even pledged delegates.

Pennsylvania outcome could sway undecided super-delegates

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The outcome of the Democratic presidential primary in Pennsylvania, pitting Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama April 22, could sway undecided "super-delegates" now expected to decide who gets the party's nod.

Obama has the support of 226 so-called super-delegates and Clinton 252. Those are out of a total of some 800 super-delegates to the party convention in Denver August 25-58; some are party bigwigs and many are elected offcials.

What makes their role unique is that the super-delegates are utterly free to vote their own minds.

The candidate who manages to convince them that she or he is the party's best hope in the general election against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is all but a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination.

"The superdelegates attempt to look at electability, and there is still a lot of water to go over the dam on that subject before most of them have to commit," Phil Bredesen, the Tennessee governor and an undecided superdelegate, told The Wall Street Journal recently.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080414/pl_afp/usvotedemocrats;_ylt=Ans.MfMjjsFbP9q_z2VwAiLCw5R4

[anonymous171]

1. One word: Duh.

[Zachstar]

2. Your link is messed up. Note the HTML lookup table

[GoldieAZ49]

4. It looks weird but it works

[scheming daemons]

3. If he wins... or she wins by less than 10%.... the SDs will flock to him in droves....

She can't just win.... she needs to win by double-digits.


The day after the last primary, Mississippi, she led Obama 55-36 in PA polls.


That's the baseline where they started. Anything less than a 19% win means that she lost ground to him over the past 6 weeks in a state that is taylor-made for her.


I predict she will win my home state... 51 to 48..... and this VERY narrow win will be spun as a devastating loss by Hillary. Especially to and among the Superdelegates.

[cottonseed]

5. The 20 point lead she lost should be enough for Gore and Carter.

It's been obvious for quite some time now that once Obama starts campaigning all support for Hillary dries up. It happens in ever single state. Gore and Carter know this. They'll be having that "uncomfortable" phone call with her shortly.

[GoldieAZ49]

6. I saw Gore's interview a few weeks ago

he said he was not interested in being a mediator. Not interested in politics anymore. I doubt he wants to call Hillary regarding anything.

Carter said he wasn't going to endorse until the convention

I dunno about either of them doing anything