Letters to the Editor
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Common Assumption?
Madden and Shapiro write:
There is a common assumption, particularly among passionate supporters of front-runner Barack Obama, that the unelected superdelegates to the Democratic Convention are waiting for an excuse to defy the wishes of rank-and-file voters and install Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee.
Where'd you come up with this "common assumption" fellas? I'm a passionate supporter of Obama, and I'm not assuming that the superdelegates are ready to break for Hillary.
I'm assuming that they're afraid of retaliation or excommunication by an apoplectic Bill Clinton, or they have to work with Hillary Clinton in the Senate and don't want to face her steely wrath any sooner than necessary, or they don't want to end up on the front page of the newspaper thanks to psycho RaginCajun Carville deciding they are the devil incarnate, or, perhaps that they simply want to wait until more votes are in before they go on the record.
If you go and check over at Huffington Post, and most of the sites covering politics (except for Salon, of course), there is actually increasing coverage suggesting that many of the superdels have decided FOR Obama and are waiting to announce.
So I'm not sure where these common assumptions came from, but, hey, no surprise. Salon is always fast and loose with the "common assumptions" and "everyone would say" and "most agree."
But in the end, it's a common assumption, and most would agree, that Salon actually talks to four people in the San Fran office to come up with these sorts of categorical statements...
That said, this was at least slightly less of a Hillary campaign brochure than the usual campaign coverage lately, although, it is duly noted that Salon is still unable to get through even one political article without using the words "Rev. Jeremiah Wright."