Paul Kirk

May 2, 2008

Yesterday is was Joe Andrew who deided to switch loyalties (after supporting Hillary), and backing Obama insteada. What’s so much of a key is that he’s a former DNC chairman. And now today, Paul Kirk, a superdelegate who led the party from 1985-1989, is coming out for Obama — a day after Andrew’s switch. What’s up with all these party leaders backing Obama?

Despite a series of trials that have put Mr. Obama on the defensive and illustrated the burdens he might carry in a fall campaign, the Obama campaign is rolling along, leaving Mrs. Clinton with dwindling options. Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse wrote in The New York Times. “By and large, the group that matters most at this point — the uncommitted superdelegates, who are likely to hold the balance of power — still seem to view their decision the way the Obama campaign would like them to see it.”

I think the party bosses are seeing the need to end the blood-letting.

Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe debated Andrew on what should happen next on Friday’s “Good Morning America,” with McAuliffe telling ABC’s Robin Roberts that it’s important to remember that neither candidate can win without the support of superdelegates. And what he didn’t say is that Hillary’s suppoert among the superdelegates is slowly, but surely, being eroded.

Andrew countered that Obama will be ahead in votes, delegates, and states won: “We know that result today, we know what the result is going to be at the end of this process as well,” he said. “What we need to do is make sure that we don’t do the Republicans’ work for them, and that’s exactly what’s happening right now.”

Of course the Clinton’s don’t usually play by the rules (other than their own), and so they’re just needing to buy time and hope they’ll find some dirt or that Obama will slip up. Regardless of all that, IF, and that’s a big IF, Hillary and Bubba are able to somehow to take the fight to the convention floor and win- they actually lose.

There simply isn’t anyway that Obama is going to lose this nomination short of a miracle or “hail Mary pass“.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News