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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Catchall

FirstRead has a post citing superdelegates being turned off by the Clinton campaign's tactics.

Then there's a post on the new NBC poll which makes some interesting reading. (Usual disclosure: One poll, collection methods, etc, etc.)

And, I thought this was interesting as it's an inversion of the "fearful superdelegate" argument I made last night. (My version: Supers won't vote to overturn pledged delegates because of the cost. His version: They won't push Clinton out because of the cost.)
But there's actually a third possibility -- that most party elders would prefer that Hillary withdraw but don't want to pay the cost of pushing her out of the race. ... the collective benefits of pushing Hillary out are much larger than the individual benefit to any one party leader. Why would Pelosi or Reid risk becoming a hated figure to millions of Hillary's supporters? As a result, everyone is likely to sit back and hope that someone else will pay the cost of forcing her out.
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