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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.

By Mike Madden

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Monday, March 31, 2008 11:02 AM

@ Red

I don't really have an opinion, because I don't really know enough about the purpose of the superdelegates, the history of their invention, etc.

But, as I understand it, if their function is precisely to serve as some sort of filter, check or safeguard in the process, then yes, of course they should draw on their expertise (such as it is) to correct for anomalies, egregious lapses in voters' judgement, as they see it, etc.

All premised, of course, on the idea that this is their function.

Whether their "supervisory" function is ethical to begin with is another matter.

—weeping for brunnhilde Read weeping for brunnhilde's other letters

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