Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton’s Tough Climb
March 31, 2008 at 8:41 am
Extreme Mortman’s exclusive Superdelegate Tracker (brace yourself for the logo)…
… reports:
Minnesota’s new U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s endorsement today of Barack Obama and the news this weekend that Obama actually won the Texas primacaucus, 99 to 94, delegate-wise, is proof that Hillary Clinton faces an uphill mountain climb to her entitlement of the democratic nomination.
By that we mean a Mt. Everest mountain climb.
For a campaign dependent on the wisdom of the remaining 250 or so superdelegates, Jackie Calmes’ WSJ article today is dismal news:
“Since the ‘Super Tuesday’ primaries on Feb. 5, Sen. Obama has won commitments from 64 superdelegates and Sen. Clinton has gotten nine. Sen. Obama has a total of 217 superdelegates in his camp while Sen. Clinton has 250, and her margin has been shrinking with each week. Sen. Clinton would have several more in her tally, but they’re from Michigan, and delegates from Michigan and Florida won’t be seated — at least for now — because both states defied party rules and held their primaries earlier than permitted.”
richarda said,
March 31, 2008 @ 9:34 am
Has the DNC said definatively that the superdelegates from MI & FL won’t be seated?
That’t not very logical, as they were not elected in the forbidden primaries, but rather are entitled to be delegates ex-officio, because of other pre-existing positions they hold (Governor, U. S. Senator, Congressman, DNC member). Somehow, I don’t see the DNC saying their DNC colleagues from MI & FL will be excluded - too much chance of payback later.