Reply #33: Disagree on it being brilliant political strategy.

[gcomeau]

We've been having supers trickling into Obama with such steady regularity that it's stopped being news. It won't be covered except in some articles that only political junkies pay much attention to and maybe a sentence or two in passing on the air.

If they have 20 committed they're hanging onto what they should do is select a group equal to the number of delegates Clinton gained in PA, which is coming out around 10, and have them all announce on the same day... immediately. That makes every network, practically guaranteed... and the message is "well, so much for Clinton momentum, Obama just wiped out her entire delegate gain there in one fell swoop".

Then a week later, a few days before Indiana and North Carolina, do it again. Then you have another day of the message being "Obama effectively just won a PA in superdelegates today" on every news broadcast leading into those primaries.