SUPERDELEGATE MATH
Unpledged delegate projections don't favor Clinton
By Alan I. Abramowitz
Special Guest Columnist
Dr. Alan Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University, and the author of Voice of the People: Elections and Voting Behavior in the United States (2004, McGraw-Hill).

A whosy-whatsy? A Superdelegate?

Undecided superdelegates don't feel bound by primaries
4/20/2008
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

SUPERDELEGATES
Dangling The Kryptonite
by Chris Bodenner
Wed. Apr. 9, 2008
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on 4/9 "said she favors a reduction in the number of superdelegates -- and their oversized influence -- in choosing" the Dem nominee.
Pelosi "did not say how many superdelegates would be appropriate in future elections or how they should be chosen. But she criticized the influence of this year's group and said the party should do a better job making the public aware of the rules that give them such power."

Ummm, sure, Ok. More confused than I was before. By design?

WHAT IF DEMOCRATS USED WINNER TAKE ALL?
April 3, 2008
Without proportional allocation Obama would trail
By Wesley Little
Special Guest Columnist
Wesley Little is the Political Chair for Washington & Lee University's "Mock Convention", the nation's most accurate mock convention since its inception in 1908, and a political columnist for several Virginia news papers, including the News Advance and the News-Gazette.

Basically, if the Dems used the same system the Repubs used that Clinton would be winning the nomination.

THE DEMOCRATIC END GAME:Who has the right credentials?
April 10, 2008
By Rhodes CookSenior Columnist
One of the basic themes of the long-running Democratic nominating campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speaks to the need for a new era in American politics. But increasingly it seems as though their race could be decided by a method quite old--a decision by the convention credentials committee that is voted up or down on the convention floor.