Clinton, who has little chance of catching Obama in the race for pledged delegates, is counting on the nearly 800 superdelegates to give her the nomination during the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. Superdelegates are ...

Neither of the two rivals appears able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to prevail in their historic race for the nomination, a development that has elevated the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who ...

  And in the event of another misjudgment or accusation hits Obama, he may not be the "strong" candidate when put under the microscope by the superdelegates ... I said Catholic, old and white - and the only 2 groups Hillary does well ...

That is likely to leave the final decision in the hands of the superdelegates -- party officials and elected leaders beholden to no candidate -- before or during the August convention ... He said he expects superdelegates who haven't committed to ...

If she can't win these next two states, I think this whole debate about superdelegates is moot. " Don Haney, of Wausau, a 68-year-old retired software developer and registered Republican, said Obama excites him and won his vote ...

com   Do you really believe the majority of people that support Obama think he is the most qualified person to be POTUS?  Are you saying that voters haven't been swayed by the double standards given Obama and Clinton by ...

In the overall race for the nomination, Clinton leads with 1,135, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates ... Organizers had expected heavy participation at the caucuses, but snow was falling and gusting ...

She declined to say what Obama should have done, or whether the subject is now a legitimate topic for her appeals to Democratic superdelegates, the party leaders who will decide whether she or Obama will be the presidential nominee. Over the ...

The system introduced by the Democrats back in 1982, of scrupulous proportional allocation of delegates, plus 800-odd "superdelegates" to act as tie-breakers, makes it much harder for a candidate to quickly run up the number needed for victory in a ...

His support may be more important among superdelegates. Symbolically, the nod gives a needed bost to Obama, who has slipped in polls amid the controversy over inflammatory comments by his spiritual mentor, the retired ...

With a revitalized candidacy, Clinton now should find it a lot easier to raise money and persuade some of the uncommitted superdelegates to support her, casting more doubts about who the ultimate Democratic nominee may be ... (An irony for ...

To:  MIC "You want to protest the existence of superdelegates now?  Kind of too late, don't you think?  This is the system that both parties have, and like it or not, these are the rules that apply for this election ... ...

Obama continued to close Clinton's long-held lead among superdelegates, those party leaders who aren't bound by the outcome of state contests ... Clinton's main hope for winning the nomination is to persuade most of the roughly 220 ...

But after more than 40 primaries and caucuses and innumerable opinion polls, the electability issue -- so irresistible for political junkies, so important to Democratic superdelegates, so central to the Obama-Clinton rivalry -- is proving ...

While Clinton's intentions were uncertain, few were disputing Monday that clear victories Tuesday for Obama in Ohio and Texas would paint her into a tight corner, possibly unleashing a flow of crucial superdelegates in Obama's direction ... Unless ...