Clinton may lose key supporters soon

[babylonsister]

Clinton may lose key supporters soon

By Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 2, 2008


WASHINGTON -- Pointing the way to a peaceful end for the tumultuous presidential primary campaign, some key supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that they accepted a new finish line in the race for delegates, a threshold Barack Obama could reach as soon as this week.

Obama aides said they expected him to surpass the 2,118 needed delegates after the final Democratic balloting finished Tuesday in South Dakota and Montana, and as more superdelegates backed the Illinois senator.

Moreover, a number of Clinton backers signaled Sunday that they were wary of the kind of protracted fight that some of her aides said they might wage in the coming months.

"It would be most beneficial if we resolved this nomination sooner rather than later," said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a high-profile superdelegate who backs Clinton. "The more time we have to get through a general-election period and the more time we have to prepare in advance of the convention, the better."

Some of Clinton's closest advisors want the New York senator to challenge the party's unusual decision Saturday to shift four of Clinton's Michigan delegates to Obama in an attempt to reflect how voters might have cast ballots and to allocate Michigan's uncommitted delegates to Obama, even though his name did not appear on the ballot in the state.

Even if Clinton won those delegates in a challenge, it would be unlikely to alter the outcome.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-dems2-2008jun02,0,5321043.story

[Triana]

1. "it would be unlikely to alter the outcome."

That's the key right there. I don't think they'll challenge it UNLESS it would alter the outcome. And, it won't.

[gateley]

2. I hope you're right. nt