I posted this below, but it's more relevant here. Looks like the Clinton campaign's plea to hold off endorsing is not working...and switching endorsements is even worse than holding an endorsement off because you're still undecided. I think the super-delegates are starting to ignore her and marginalize her as irrelevant. It will be very interesting to see what happens in the next few days as we get closer to March 4.

And just after the news that the Clinton camp want Supers NOT to be swayed by election results.

I thini they really fear that this is the end of their Superdelegate firewall.

It is.

Huge. And the "some of us did not see coming" line is a good template for other SDs to use.

How long is the media going to pretend this race isn't over?

Um, sorry about the repeated post -- it's not that I thought y'all are hard of hearing.

But...I thought that Hillary said for everyone to freeze?
Shame on you Rep. Lewis!
Posted by hello_world

I admit I'm being a little juvenile, but all of the "shame on you!" formulations have been cracking me up! Where's the Shame on You! spoof of the Yes We Can song already?...

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!! !!!HILLMENTUM™!!!!

Was Rep. Lewis one of the SD's that Jesse Jackson Jr. warned to switch allegiance to vote for the black candidate or his career would be threatened?

hello_world
Sorry that Rep Cleaver. My bad. Here is it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080215/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_superdelegates_6;_ylt=ApeAuR7qy3M.kGJ6rUOZk50E1vAI

In an interview, Cleaver offered a glimpse of private conversations.

He said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois had recently asked him "if it comes down to the last day and you're the only superdelegate? ... Do you want to go down in history as the one to prevent a black from winning the White House?

"I told him I'd think about it," Cleaver concluded. Jackson, an Obama supporter, confirmed the conversation, and said the dilemma may pose a career risk for some black politicians. "Many of these guys have offered their support to Mrs. Clinton, but Obama has won their districts. So you wake up without the carpet under your feet. You might find some young primary challenger placing you in a difficult position" in the future, he added.

Thomas F. Schaller over at the Baltimore Sun gets it exactly right:

Though she leads among superdelegates, five weeks ago she had pledges from 71 percent of all superdelegates announced for either her or Mr. Obama, but that share has slipped to 57 percent. National polls also show her faring worse than Mr. Obama would in potential match-ups with Republican Sen. John McCain in November. A recent Iowa poll shows her trailing Mr. McCain in that swing state by nine points but Mr. Obama leading the Arizona senator by 17 points - a 26-point differential.
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The message is clear and becoming clearer: A growing number of Democrats, even those who like Mrs. Clinton personally and respect her as a public servant, have seen enough. They want the Clinton machine to just go away - to forfeit for real.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller27feb27,0,2737862.column

Did someone say "Switch?"

Cue the music!

We're going to be hearing that song a lot more, I think.

Any bets on how long it is before some unsourced whisper campaign attacks John Lewis?

I have to say that watching the video of John Lewis say it was tougher than marching in Selma to make this decision (which I'm sure will just irritate and offend some people) was really touching to me. I'm glad I'm not in politics and don't have to decide between betraying a close friend and doing what's good for the country.

If any super delegates want to switch from Clinton to Obama, there's nothing to stop them. I would hope that the reason they choose to do so is because they have become convinced that Obama would be a better candidate, a better president than Clinton, not because they are just jumping from a candidate they see as losing, to one who is winning, with an eye to the favor an early supporter could curry from a grateful president. The super delegates seem to have been created by the party poobahs to prevent the nomination from being hijacked from the party insiders by an insurgent candidate with a large grassroots well of support. As such, they tend to support the establishment candidate, in this case Clinton, although the urge to be with a winner may be too overwhelming to resist. They are representatives who have their positions in order to vote their consciences for what's best for the party and the country, not merely mirror their state's primary or caucus votes, otherwise they lose their entire reason for being.