It Comes Down to the Superdelegates -- Political Wire

It Comes Down to the Superdelegates

The New York Times looks at the math and concludes the Democratic presidential nomination will come down to the choices of the superdelegates. More important, the article points out that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s advisers "made it clear that they were prepared to take potentially incendiary steps to build her delegate count."

However, Todd Purdum suggests a Clinton victory that way would be hollow at best: "It would mean that Clinton’s only hope of winning would be some kind of backroom deal in which she persuaded super-delegates, the party elders and leaders who need not take a firm stand until the first ballot at the convention in Denver, that Obama simply lacks what it takes, even if he has won more votes and delegates in the state-by-state count. It would be akin to winning the presidency in the Electoral College after losing the popular vote. We’ve tried that, and it doesn’t work out so well.”

MSNBC provides a good backgrounder on the superdelegates.

February 14, 2008

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