delegates

In my little neck of the woods, I have to tell you, the John Edwards endorsement of Barack Obama is a bigger deal than you might think. And I agree with Goldni that I think the timing of this was very much balanced for positive press after West Virginia.

When I voted for Barack Obama during the Tennessee primary (even though I was an Edwards-leaning voter), all I asked from the hard-core Obama supporters was to stop crowing long enough to say, "Thanks."

. . . about the Democratic Presidential Primary.

I was just reading a Robert Novak article on the Dem race, and several things came to mind:
--Though I disagree that Hillary's WV trouncing of Obama reflects any "momentum" for her campaign, it certainly reflects Obama's general election weaknesses.

My hope is the candidate I voted for,Obama,will have 2,209 delegates before the May 31st meeting of the DNC Rules & By-laws committee.
The AP says Obama has 1,885 delegates..324 shy of 2,209.

The Oregon presidential primary
has been around for nearly a century.

And has proved to be as treacherous,
for front runners,late in the campaign
as NH is early in the campaign.

Gene McCarthy,Frank Church & Gary Hart
all upset the apple cart by defeating front runners
in the late May Oregon primary.

Georgianna Vines reports that one of three Knoxvillians attending the Green Party’s national convention as delegates believes he knows who will emerge as the nominee:

Ilissa Gold signs on to what she sees as a good solution to tthe problem of how to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic Convention after they broke DNC rules by holding primaries early:

Obama says he is going to declare victory on May 20:

It's a train wreck waiting to happen, with one candidate claiming to be the nominee while the other vigorously denies it, all predicated on an argument over what exactly constitutes the finish line of the primary race.