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DNC Convention = War

With both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton's camps becoming entrenched, is there any way to avoid a brokered convention?

Everyone knows that approximately 300 superdelegates will determine who the Democratic nominee is. It remains unclear, however, whether they will listen to DNC Chairman Howard Dean and pledge their support to a candidate as soon as the primaries are over. It also remains unclear if the Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated in Denver.

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March 2008
- Superdelegates Ask: Which Candidate Has the Coattails?
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Mar 27, 08 9:38 AM CDT
  
  Ten of Pennsylvania's superdelegates have yet to back a Democratic presidential candidate ahead of the April 22 primary. And while Clinton is expected to win the balloting, Bloomberg writes, some—especially several freshman congressmen up for reelection—are concerned that her "high negatives" might inspire more Republicans to come out to vote against her, hurting their own chances. More »
- Reid: Race Will End Before Convention
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 26, 08 11:12 AM CDT
  
  The top Senate Democrat says his party's presidential nomination will be wrapped up before the Aug. 25-28 convention. “It will be done,” majority leader Harry Reid declared of the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—adding mysteriously, Politico reports, that he’d spoken to party chairman Howard Dean and that “things are being done.” More »
- Superdelegates Should Hold Superprimary: Tenn. Gov.
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 26, 08 9:34 AM CDT
  
  Democrats should hold a superdelegate superprimary to settle the race before the summer, says Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen. “You’re going to spend this whole summer—and lots of money and time and effort—trying to convince people that whoever isn’t eventually nominated, isn’t electable,” says Bredesen. To staunch the bloodletting sooner, he proposes that the 795 superdelegates meet in June to cast their ballots. More »
- In Democrats' Primary Mess, Democracy Is Real Loser
  
  newser | Salon | Mar 24, 08 2:19 PM CDT
  
  Info on the Democratic candidates is pouring out, too late for most voters to get much out of it, Walter Shapiro complains in Salon. "Most Democratic voters will have chosen between Clinton and Obama back in February," he gripes, and the voting that produced Obama's delegate lead is dated—its “potency as an expression of the pure popular will” is aging rapidly. More »
- Hillary Camp in the Red Last Month
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Mar 22, 08 5:25 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in debt despite a massive influx of donations last month, according to FEC filings. She raised $35 million in February, spent $31 million and ended up with $33 million—but most of it is reserved for the general election and the rest is owed. However, $5 million of that debt is to herself and need not be repaid. More »
- Clinton's Done; Media in Denial
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 21, 08 5:06 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama has sewn up the Democratic nomination, but the press refuses to report it, Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen contend. "Reporters and editors love a close race — it’s more fun and it’s good for business," the veteran journalists write. They crunch the numbers every which way and conclude, "Even the Clinton campaign’s own best-case scenario has her finishing behind Obama." More »
- Richardson to Endorse Obama
  
  newser | Associated Press | Mar 21, 08 3:19 AM CDT
  
  Bill Richardson will back Barack Obama for president today, giving the Illinois senator one of the Democratic party's most coveted endorsements. The New Mexico governor and former presidential candidate called Obama a "once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America's moral leadership in the world" in a statement obtained by the AP. More »
- John Murtha, War Critic, Backs Clinton
  
  newser | CQPolitics | Mar 19, 08 3:30 AM CDT
  
  John Murtha, the Pennsylvania congressman who has become a leading critic of the Iraq war, is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, CQ Politics reports. “I know that Senator Clinton has a similar position that I have in regards to the war in Iraq,” Murtha said. While both he and Clinton voted to authorize the use of military force, Murtha publicly denounced the Iraq war in a noted 2005 speech. More »
- Hill Newbies Slow to Commit
  
  newser | Time | Mar 17, 08 6:00 PM CDT
  
  A surprising number of freshman congressmen are holdouts in the Dems' superdelegate derby, Time reports, with half of the House's 40 newbies and six of eight rookie senators still officially undecided. Impressive that they're tough enough to take the pressure, the magazine notes, but they also may be more averse to making enemies. More »
- Superdelegates Should Follow Voters: Pelosi
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 16, 08 7:11 PM CDT
  
  Nancy Pelosi boosted Barack Obama today by saying superdelegates should vote with the people, Politico reports. “If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party,” the House speaker said on ABC’s "This Week". Ex-lawmaker Bill Bradley went further on "Meet the Press," warning that superdelegates who ignore constituents may face tough battles in future elections. More »
- Journo Picks Up Clinton's Spin
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Mar 16, 08 6:05 PM CDT
  
  The AP described superdelegates as "automatic delegates" in a story last night, just as the Clinton camp asked—and turned the news service into a spin "messenger," Josh Marshall writes on the Talking Points Memo blog. The campaign wants superdelegates to sound less privileged in case they nominate Clinton this summer. But a good reporter should cut through such word-wrangling, Marshall writes. Apparently unfamiliar with adages regarding pots and kettles, however, he singles out the AP's Mike Glover without giving him a chance to respond. More »
- Superdelegate Wants Some Peace and Quiet
  
  newser | New York Observer | Mar 14, 08 4:40 PM CDT
  
  With superdelegates like this, who needs Republicans? The Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns may be pondering that question after getting Leana Medley's voicemail again, but she doesn't care. "I'm more likely to take a call from a reporter," the director of Missouri’s National Education Association tells the New York Observer. More »
- Dem Office Holders Gravitate Toward Obama
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Mar 14, 08 2:30 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is cutting into Hillary Clinton's lead among the most prestigious superdelegates, the Democratic Party's members of Congress and governors. Among those 313 superdelegates, Clinton has the support of 103 and Obama of 96, reports Bloomberg. Clinton maintains an overall lead of 259-212 among superdelegates, but that too is narrowing: since her victories in Texas and Ohio, she has only picked up one superdelegate while Obama has netted 9. More »
- Can Spitzer Hurt Clinton?
  
  newser | Nation | Mar 11, 08 3:40 PM CDT
  
  Will the Eliot Spitzer scandal hurt fellow New York Democrat Hillary Clinton, who's all too familiar with the travails of philandering men? Writers are weighing in: Clinton had trouble securing Spitzer's endorsement, writes John Nichols in the Nation , and now, "He is a distraction—the big player in her adopted home state who is now in big, big trouble." One positive: David Paterson would "instantly become Clinton's most prominent African-American backer." More »
- Obama Has 70% Chance of Topping Ticket
  
  newser | New York | Mar 10, 08 4:35 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is far more likely to be the Democratic nominee than Hillary Clinton is, says Joe Trippi, the veteran strategist who advised Howard Dean and John Edwards. In an IM interview with New York, he puts Obama’s odds at 70%, predicts a race that lasts until the convention, and foresees "a remote chance of a third candidate if this gets really ugly and Clinton takes a meat ax to Obama." More »
- Superdelegates Waiting to Pick Sides
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 9, 08 10:58 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton lost Wyoming yesterday, but today the Washington Post has some welcome news for the Democratic underdog: Many superdelegates say they’ll wait until the end of the primaries to chose a candidate. “You’re going to see a lot of delegates remaining uncommitted,” said one neutral Democratic congressman. “There’s a sense that this is going to Denver not resolved.” More »
- Would-Be First Spouse Thrives Out of Spotlight
  
  newser | Associated Press | Mar 7, 08 3:10 PM CST
  
  Six weeks after Bill Clinton’s aggressive role in his wife’s campaign jeopardized her African-American support and helped drive Ted Kennedy to endorse Barack Obama, the potential First Gentleman is taking a more subdued tack, working far from the media eye to shore up rural voters, bring in the money, and woo superdelegates, the AP reports. More »
- Candidates Spin Tuesday: Math vs. Momentum
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 6, 08 1:25 PM CST
  
  Hillary Clinton's victories in Texas and Ohio changed little in the race for pledged delegates—by some estimates she netted only five—but Tuesday's primaries changed the dynamic of the Democratic contest, the Wall Street Journal reports. The candidates have divergent arguments: Barack Obama's team says the math favors him; Clinton's claims she should be the nominee if momentum lies with her. More »
- Michigan, Florida Dems Mull Do-Over Votes
  
  newser | Associated Press | Mar 6, 08 6:22 AM CST
  
  Do-over Democratic primary votes in Michigan and Florida are looking likelier with the support of key political players, the AP reports. The governors of both states—a Clinton-backing Democrat in Michigan and a Republican in Florida—have issued a joint statement calling for their states' delegates to be seated at the national convention. Campaigns for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seem open to the idea. Clinton won both primaries, but neither candidate campaigned and Obama wasn't even on the Michigan ballot. More »
- Mich., Fla. May Yet Be Hillary Key
  
  newser | Salon | Mar 5, 08 1:43 PM CST
  
  Despite big wins yesterday, Hillary Clinton still needs a secret weapon to make up her delegate deficit and, Walter Shapiro writes in Salon , her strategy might have been presaged in Ohio by Gov. Ted Strickland urging, “Let’s go to Michigan and Florida." Do-over votes in those states, whose primaries weren't recognized by the Democratic Party for violating scheduling rules, could be her next push. More »

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Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a town hall meeting at Rosemary Clarke Middle School in Pahrump, Nev., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., takes the stage with area church members during a campaign stop in this Nov. 27, 2007 file photo, in Spartanburg, S.C. Clinton picked... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., stand together before the start of a Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles, Thursday,... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., watches a campaign rally video on a journalist laptop while other members of the media look on during his flight from Washington, D.C. to New... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., points to her supporters upon her arrival for a campaign stop in McAllen, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (Associated Press)

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