For Superdelegates, 'Huge Relief' at End of Primary Season

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Like many of the other 150 or so superdelegates who remain uncommitted, Cobb-Hunter vowed early on to decide between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) only after every state had its chance to vote. Her wait ends tonight, after Montana and South Dakota hold the final Democratic primaries.

"Honestly, it's going to be over with and it's going to be a huge relief," Cobb-Hunter said. "The candidate is going to be such an obvious choice after the end of the primaries that nobody will care one way or another if I commit or not, and that's just great."
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The party will send 796 superdelegates to the convention in Denver, and most of them have already committed to Obama. The ones who haven't committed to him or to Clinton have various reasons.

Some members of Congress are concerned about offending constituents who support the other candidate. Coloradans may think they should remain neutral because they will host the convention. Then there are leading party officials, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who have presented themselves as honest brokers in the nomination process.

Several superdelegates contacted yesterday said they spent the past six months waiting, sometimes impatiently, for voters to reach a consensus before expressing opinions of their own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202769.html?nav=rss_politics

We should get rid of SDs. A whole lot of them don't want to declare anyway. Looks like we would be doing them a service.

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1. I don't blame them, I will be too

On Washington Journal this morning, there seems to be a concerted effort by campaign workers or diehard supporters from a certain candidate who are all talking the same talking points. One sounded like she was reading (very badly too) from a talking points script. One wanted all the super delegates to reconsider. Mind you, I'm not saying this started with the candidate themself, but there is a group that definitely got together to wage this campaign.