An Uncommitted Super-Delegate With Nice Things To Say About Hillary
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has an interesting peek inside the thinking of an uncommitted super-del:
Barack Obama needs to "demonstrate he can connect with blue-collar, working-class people," says U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle."Up to this point, I don't think he's shown that yet. That causes me some concern," said Doyle, a Forest Hills Democrat whose 14th District includes much of Pittsburgh....
"I told him I wasn't real pleased" with his approach and that "he can't win campaigns in Western Pennsylvania on television," Doyle said in an interview. "You have to go out there amongst the people, and I felt Hillary was outworking him in Western Pennsylvania, and she got a result for it."
Before Pennsylvania, the super-dels were moving over to Obama, though not in the numbers that the Obama campaign was hoping for. And one thing the Pennsylvania outcome has clearly done is put off any wholesale movement of supers for at least ten more days.
If Obama wins both Indiana and North Carolina, there will be some serious super-del movement, but if she posts strong showings in both states, they'll continue sitting tight -- and the contest will drag on.
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