Aconselho a ler este excelente artigo de Mike Allen e Jim Vandehei no Politico. Eu inclino-me a concordar com a análise destes dois comentadores. Sejamos honestos: a única possibilidade de Hillary Clinton obter a nomeação é através dos Superdelegados. Será que os dirigentes democratas não vão seguir a vontade dos eleitores? Ou Obama é arrasado nas eleições que faltam e sucedem-se mais casos como o de Jeremiah Wright, ou então será acredito que será o candidato democrata em Novembro. E caso consiga unir o Partido Democrata, será o claro favorito a ser o próximo Presidente dos Estados Unidos. (excelente gráfico do WSJ sobre os superdelegados)
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.
Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency. Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else. People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.
As it happens, many people inside Clinton’s campaign live right here on Earth. One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she has no more than a 10 percent chance of winning her race against Barack Obama, an appraisal that was echoed by other operatives.
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