The audience included several uncommitted superdelegates, who are being heavily wooed at the state convention by supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ... They criticized Pelosi's comments on a Sunday television talk show in which she ...

As Clinton publicly entertained the idea of Obama running as her vice presidential nominee, advisers sketched out a new scenario for overcoming Obama's delegate lead: a Clinton win in the Pennsylvania primary in April and then persuading the ...

Those factors combine to make him "unbeatable," Devine said early yesterday, predicting that Obama will soon outstrip Clinton in support from superdelegates, the party leaders who hold the balance of nominating power ... There remain but 217 delegates ...

Such a summit "might determine what the sense of the superdelegates is in terms of whether we should let this play out -- or come up with some consensus before August," said Coln, one of three New Mexico superdelegates who has not yet chosen a ...

That argument could be important if the race ultimately is decided by the 796 party leaders known as superdelegates, who control about 20 percent of the convention's votes. Superdelegates were created in the early 1980s to balance the sometimes ...

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Maria Cantwell, one of Washington's 17 Democratic superdelegates, isn't ready to shift her allegiance from Sen ... "I definitely don't want the superdelegates to be the deciding factor," she ...

But Obama's campaign began making a case in earnest Wednesday that if he maintained his edge in delegates won in primaries and caucuses, he would have the strongest claim to the backing of the 796 elected Democrats and party leaders known as ...

Obama has gained more superdelegates than Clinton since Pennsylvania, Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, noted in a memo to undeclared superdelegates ... And with only 217 delegates left to be selected in the last six primaries and 265 ...

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"The Clinton campaign just said they have two options for trying to win the nomination -- attempt to have superdelegates overturn the will of the Democratic voters or change the rules they agreed to at the 11th hour in order to seat nonexistent ...

  As things stand today, the Superdelegates will swing the nomination!  Last, because Superdelegates' votes are not constrained by any criterion, we're forced to bet on their judgement about what's best for the party (a ...

Little-known party activists who serve as superdelegates found themselves in an unusual spotlight ... San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, an Obama supporter, addressed the convention before Bill Clinton and also had meetings with ...

) Now, the process is going to play itself out, and until it does - - whether with a surprise Obama win in Pennsylvania or a rush of superdelegates to one camp or another or an all-out convention fight -- the party, and, eventually, the country, ...

He wants the so-called superdelegates -- those not chosen in primaries or caucuses, and thus free to support either Mr ... About 350 of the 800 superdelegates have yet to declare their support for either ...