It's primary delegates, stupid....
With slim chances of Hillary Clinton picking up more pledged delegates and more of the popular vote, (if Michigan and Florida don't revote/count), than Barack Obama, how can Clinton convince superdelegates to pick her as the nominee? The answer is: pledged delegates, the New York Observer's Politicker blog reports:
At the end of today's Clinton conference call (during which Phil Singer said that if the Clinton campaign were a baseball team, they have a "great leftfielder in Mark Penn") NBC's Chuck Todd observed that Penn seemed to be using the term "primary delegates" more often, and he asked if that was a talking point the campaign might not be looking to use when making their pitch to superdelegates.
"If we are ahead in primary delegates—we're within 16, with a lot of primaries left to go— that's a factor," said Penn.
