"...only 46 percent believe that superdelegates should support the candidate with the most delegates.

A majority of voters -- 51 percent -- believe that superdelegates should support the candidate who has the best chance of winning (30%), or that they should be free to support whichever candidate they prefer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/politics/main250.shtml"

First off, it would be just as accurate to say "Only 30% believe that superdelegates should support the candidate who has the best chance of winning, while a majority of voters - 70% - believe that SDs should support the candidate with the most delegates (40%), or that they should be free to support whichever candidate they prefer."

Second, the only way you could assume that Hillary has the best chance of winning is if you believe what Bill Clinton said on Friday:

"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," he told a group of veterans Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."

In addition to questioning Obama's patriotism (in that slimy, ham-handed but not-overtly-stated way that's become his trademark), Clinton is also assuming that we're all idiots. How stupid does he think we are to believe "all this other stuff" wouldn't "intrude" if Hillary was the nominee?

Brian Hussein Lupiani

My reworking of ljwalker53's poll spin should have said 46%, not 40%, believe the SD's should support the candidate with the most delegates.

According to the New York Times* in New Mexico Hillary got 68,654 votes to Obama's 67,531 (a difference of 1,123) - or 48.8% to 48.0%. She earned 14 delegates to his 12.

So it's not like Richardson's endorsement goes against the vast majority of New Mexico's voters.

*http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/NM.html

"All Clinton said was that she and McCain has more experience."

That's NOT all she said. I don't recall the exact words*, but it was pretty close to:

"I've passed the Commander-In-Chief test. [How she can make this claim is a different matter.] John McCain has passed the Commander-In-Chief test. Barack Obama made a speech."

If that's not an endorsement of McCain, it's at least a statement that he's qualified to be President and Obama isn't.

"Obama supporters are taking this a step further, suggesting that she was endorsing McCain, which implies that the candidate with more experience is obviously the one that should be President. If you think this way, then you shouldn't be supporting Obama, and if you don't think this way then you shouldn't be suggesting that Clinton endorsed McCain."

Nice job of twisting things around. Of course Obama supporters aren't saying that "more experience" is the obvious deciding factor, we're pointing out that Clinton is saying that - and at the same time she's not only saying she's more qualified than Obama, but she's going out of her way to say McCain is too.

And as others have said, it's self-defeating for Clinton to tout her "experience" as her main qualification, because even if you believe her lies about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia and her early opposition to NAFTA (I wonder how many Ohio voters would switch their votes after hearing the truth), McCain's experience dwarfs hers. Unless you get extra credit for being First Lady of Arkansas for 10 years.

Sorry if this comes of as unfriendly, but as a Floridian I have a tough time being dispassionate when responding to someone whose name starts with "jeb".

*On edit: See Reality-Based Liberal's 10:59 post. Thanks, RLB

...Never knowing what story to cling to

When the truth came in."

"God, but Obama is a fraud . May he rot in hell."

And you call Obama supporters "unhinged"?

"I have to wonder just how many "minions" Rush Limbaugh actually has and if they are actually smart enough to follow his instructions without fucking them up."

I heard somewhere (Air America?) that some dittoheads were upset because they didn't realize that by re-registering as Democrats, they wouldn't be able to vote in the down-ticket Repub primaries.