What is Donna Brazile's objection?  If the party rules say that there are to be SDs who constitute 20% of the delegates, why shouldn't they get to vote at the convention?  And if the elected delegates are split essentially evenly, why should that fact deprive the SDs of their votes?  (Surely the rule isn't that the SDs get to vote as long as it doesn't make a difference.)

Now, if she is going to complain about Clinton's attempt to seat Michigan and Florida delegates, she's on more solid ground.  

I'm not an artist, and right now I wish I were...I'm just waiting for someone to come up with a comic-book knockoff of "The Superdelegates":

(Written in appropriate comic-book italics, with boldface where appropriate...)

Frame one:

A nation is in trouble...

(Darkened cityscape)

Frame two:

The good citizens of Democratic City are increasingly falling under the sway of the evil mesmerist, Dr. Obama...

(picture of Obamaniacs, eyes replaced with little swirls suggesting hypnosis, chanting "yes, we can" in zombie-like fashion)

Frame three:

Who will save Democratic City from the evil Dr. Obama, and restore its seat of power to the rightful heir Hillary?

(question marks)

Frame four:

The SUPERDELEGATES!!!

(images of various superdelegates--McAuliffe, Bill himself, and so on, flying in to save the day)

You get the gist of it.  Or if the graphic novelist wants to spin it the other way--flying in to save the young hero Barack from the machinations of the evil Clinton monster--play it that way.  Either way this is a spoof waiting to happen, and I want to see it now.

Man, Tarfon, the objection is that having superdelegates was an idiotic idea in the first place. (The DNC leaders who came up with it back in the 80s should be taken out back and shot.) It's tolerable as long as it has no effect on the race. But it's still ugly.

I agree with Brazile. I am not a swing voter by any means, I loathe the Republican party, but I hate political machines even more. If the superdelegates decide the result of the primary preferences, rather than merely reflecting the votes of the elected delegates, I *will* vote straight Republican.

cspencef:

Too bad my friend "Dr. Jim" the nutty libertarian moved away once his NIST post-doc work was done.  He was a talented artist and always up for doing political spoofs.

It seems that the superdelegates who have already endorsed either Clinton or Obama, roughly do so, 2:1 in Clinton's favor.

If we assume that this 2:1 trend holds for the remaining undeclared 417 superdelegates; and combine this assumption with the report that superdelegates will likely hold the tiebreaker to the convention, does it all add up to a Clinton nomination?