He's providing a reason why he thinks superdelegates should vote for him, but Jim and others will make up their own minds.

This doesn't seem complicated. Or am I missing something?

It seems to me that Jim answered your question:

"For the last few days there has been a lot of speculation about where public officials, including me, stand with respect to the candidates for president. I think we need to focus on your endorsements."

Interpretation? "I'll endorse according to the outcome of the Caucus." Seems pretty clear to me. He won't go against the public will, though naturally I would prefer he endorsed Obama beforehand, just to give him that much more of a boost.

Also: I read somewhere that he's beholden somewhat to the Clintons for helping him out with legal fees related to a tiff with Boehner. Perhaps he is waiting to use his State's professed support of Obama so he can then follow suit without losing face with the Clintons.

*Shrug*

Thousands more of us left to go back to work, to home, to lunch, or wherever our day took us.

5,000 minimum at Noon on each side - and more later.

Many thousands left as A.v. said - I passed them coming in.

It means that all the superdelegates from CA, MA, TN, and NJ -- even those who've announced for Obama -- should vote for....Clinton.

It means that if MO flips on a recount then flips again, Sen. McCaskill (currently for Obama) should flip to Clinton then bakc to Obama then back to Clinton according to tiny swings in the counts after each recount.

It means all FL and MI superdelegates should be for Clinton, because the voters in those states favored Clinton. THEY didn't sign anything giving away their right to vote.

And more:

since Clinton won more votes on supertuesday shouldn't all superdelegates of the supertuesday states be for Clinton?

Why should superdelegates go on a winner take all basis when the pledged delegates don't? If they did, Hillary would be far ahead right now after sweeping most of the biggest states.

Obviously this call for McDermott to vote the way Seattle or WA does is just an ad hoc unprincipled call to help Obama. Because you don't hear the same people calling on all the CA superdelegates to be for Clinton.

You bet it is.

um..

Eli is showing wonk wonk instead of savvy to the sort of contest he is observing and reporting.

50 states - hence almost 50 systems. Some very fair, some hometown rigged, some city rigged - some are clean some are dirty.

Much is "party driven by self serving independant entities" - some are election laws made by ancient legislative debate, more current with all that might entail. There are No Gold Plates or Moses Dicates anywhere in sight.

Get it Eli? Send us some good coverage as you are so very capable, let the national blather sellers heap this shit out there.

SLOGGERS NEED YOU, YES YOU ....

And if they accepted his proposal (which they won't), it would lose him the nomination (whether we apply it by districts, or by states).

We voted the folks in so they could be superdelegates. Each superdelegate is worth 10,000+ regular votes in the final tally, plus they each get their personal vote.

The whole system was put in place so the party could control the rabblesrousing grassroots. It sucks swamp water.

But since they're there, they should vote with their state or in the case of Reps with their district.

The party official superdelegates should not vote at all or should go with the national popular vote.

And McDermitt is doing the right thing. Wait until we vote and support our choice no matter who that should be.

We absolutely do not want another Supreme Court Bush -v- Gore hard feelings split the party moment.

I support Hillary and I am as Queer as they come from first grade on.

She will do a battle not just a campaign.

Mc Cain will come out swinging - SOON -
Glama Bama will crumple when the bill boards appear about his coke habit as a boy scout...... what ever ...... there is no new dirt on Hillary and most of it is so ancient and contrived.

Who ever wins the next round of BIG states will be nominated, Penn. Texas. And I am betting on old time Dem. women now that the battle is real.

Sweet non registed, non voting kids, the dream of the youth cult, and youth marketing, nada.

Jesus, Eli, how long have you lived here? Don't you know that Baghdad Jim is a local institution? Of course he'll go with what we decide. He did it on Iraq, and he'll do it after tomorrow.

I know, it's not the hip, cynical view, but there's always the chance that it might be true.

Get over yourself, Eli. Jim doesn't owe you an explanation just because you want to hear it when you want to hear it.

But you will always be that one guy who glorified Chris Crocker. Sorry, fool.