Poll: Dems Evenly Split On What Super-Delegates Should Do
Here's another key number buried in the new Newsweek poll: It shows that Dems are pretty much evenly split on whether the super-delegates should back the candidate who wins the pledged delegate count and/or popular vote or whether they should back the candidate of their choice...
Should neither Clinton nor Obama secure enough delegates to win the nomination (a scenario that looks increasingly likely), 43 percent of Democrats said they would prefer that the candidate trailing in the delegate count concede the nomination, while 42 percent think superdelegates should choose the nominee.Should the ball end up in the superdelegates' court, most respondents (42 percent) think they should choose the best-qualified nominee in their judgment, while 38 percent believe they should choose the person with the popular vote lead.
We haven't seen this polled anywhere else; if anyone else has, please let us know.
My guess is that should Obama win the pledged del count and especially also the popular vote, all the media attention given to it would shift these numbers significantly in his favor.
Nonetheless, these numbers suggest the possibility that the war over what the super dels do could amount to yet another bruising political battle and that things could get very, very murky and ugly at the end.
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