Pledged Delegates

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news?

So do I. Any event of this magnitude would be the lead story on every evening news broadcast in the nation....

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary results

The Pennsylvania Primary was Hillary Clinton's last chance to deliver a game changing blow to Obama's campaign for the nomination. She failed to deliver.

Pennsylvania provided her with her final real opportunity to knock...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary

Hillary Clinton scored a decisive victory against Barack Obama in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. But underlying the numbers, there is a new kind of inevitability on the horizon. Certainly her campaign will use the night's victory to...

Consider the stunning parallels between the contest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008 and the same contest 40 years earlier in 1968, which ended in a party divided. Both contests feature insurgent political campaigns, and the catalyst for the insurgency in both cases is opposition to an unpopular...

The handwriting is on the wall. It is virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to overcome Barack Obama's insurmountable lead in pledged delegates.

The party's superdelegates are faced with only one choice. They must decide whether to ratify the outcome of the primaries and support the candidate with the most pledged...

Of all the ideas floating around among Democrats seeking to avoid a summer-long meltdown, the early June superdelegate "mini-convention" seems to be the most fair, reasonable and obtainable solution on the table.

The idea is to have superdelegates meet right after the primaries conclude and settle this feud between Barack...

Yes He Did.

Senator Obama shows us what kind of president he will be in a crisis. Obama will be a brilliant teacher, a sincere uniter and an inspirational leader. Often accused of peddling false hope and empty rhetoric, Obama put that criticism behind him. Obama put his words...

First of all, let's be clear on one thing -- this race is over. Barack Obama has won. Hillary Clinton has lost. Obama's pledged delegate lead is insurmountable. He leads by about 150 delegates in that category. Hillary Clinton cannot and will not catch up to him.

Clinton's supposed...

There is no rule in the politics of Democratic Party conventions that says that the contender with the largest number of pledged delegates short of the total required for nomination should automatically, by dint of that achievement, be handed the party's designation. This argument is now being put forth by...

Last weekend I wrote a blog on the Huffington Post warning that if either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton win the most elected delegates in the primaries/caucuses, but the unelected Superdelegates veto the will of the voters and nominate the candidate with fewer elected delegates, it could split the Democratic...

In a recent post, "My Father the Superdelegate, and Why There's Nothing to Fear," Donnie Fowler attempts to reassure us that when the superdelegates, most of whom "have spent the majority of their lives serving the Democratic Party," choose the Democratic nominee, they will choose, from their "perspective and...