Reply #2: Hey, some of us die-hards are still reading here.

[rodbailey]

Intriuging thoughts Lildreamer. I'm still not sure I see Clinton and Gore coming together, but a lot of folks (the chatterers on TV) are certainly asking themselves the question - "What does Hillary want?" So, maybe what she wants is to not let Obama become President and whatever else happens is secondary. This kind of runs counter to other things we've heard (through folks at the Yahoo site and others - not that any of us have real high-level contacts) that it really is over and Obama is it. But, there was an article in our local paper today (and I'm sure other places) about how there may be challenges to any decision by the DNC committee meeting on May 31 to resolve the MI and FL issue. And, I think I heard last evening on the news that there has been a legal case filed relative to seating the FL delegation, so whatever gets decided on May 31 may not be the final answer.

While Obama is only, supposedly, 54 delegates away from securing the nomination (assuming the 2026 number is the accurate one) he will not get that many from the remaining pledged delegates in the last 23 primaries. And, if the "goal posts" are moved with a decision on MI and FL, he will still be a ways from locking up the nomination. Based on that, the only way to end the nomination process would be for Hillary to conceed and basically release her delegates to Obama, or for most of the approx. 200 still uncommitted super delegates to come out and endorse Obama. That might happen following the June 3 primaries; but if Hillary wins big in PR and the decision on May 31 goes somewhat in her favor, she will keep making the case that she has won a majority of the votes cast in primaries and that might continue to "freeze" some of the uncommitted supers in place on into June and perhaps beyond.

It has been a very strange primary season and the forthcoming possible scenarios still seem to leave the door open just a bit for Gore. However, unless there has been some kind of backroom deal between the Clintons and Gore, I'm not sure he would be keen to have Hillary be his stalking horse (in fact I really suspect he might be getting frustrated that she keeps going...and going...and going) and then jump in as she keeps things tied up until the Convention. Just in case, though, the algoresolution web site is still there, just waiting to be put to good use.