While trying to decide what to blog about I came across an interesting opinion on how the decision between Obama and Clinton is going to be decided. This article wasn't posted on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or any other mainstream American news source, it came from the BBC. That's right, the British Broadcasting Corporation. It's actually where I get most of my American politics news these days because I'm so fed up with American news stations.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, the BBC predicts a simple, and historical, reason for Superdelegates not to be picking sides in large amounts yet. That reason is none other than everyone's favorite environmental guru, Al Gore. Thanks to the debate in the 2000 election between George W Bush and Al Gore over the popular vote Democrats are hesitant to leave the decision in anyone's hands but the masses. At this point Obama still leads the way by a slim margin of 13.6 million to 13.3 million. There is not long to go in the race, but with states like Pennsylvania left there is still enough time for Clinton to pull the popular vote back to her side. So while the Clinton camp will continue to say that the size of the states matters more than the popular vote, you can be sure that as soon as she has 1 more popular vote than Obama she will have a new battle cry for the nomination push, "We lead the popular vote!"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7287595.stm
-Andrew
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