Not surprisingly, the punditry is declaring it the end of the line for Hillary. Hillary, however, has settled into "Bunker Hill" mode, insisting that she will keep at it until the convention. Part of this is probably bluster, and much of it depends on whether or not she will manage to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida. However, she has already raised the specter of a credentials fight on the floor of the Democratic convention.

She said she would seek to have the Democratic Party's rules and bylaws committee this month reinstate the outlawed Florida and Michigan delegations that support her — and "if people are not satisfied with that, they go to the credentials committee" at the convention, she threatened.

In any case, the convention isn't until August. This thing needs to be resolved before then.

Here is a list of superdelegates publicly pledged to Clinton or Obama, written in alphabetical order by state. Obama needs roughly 200 more delegates to clinch the nomination, assuming the party does not change its mind about not seating the (in my opinion, illegitimate) Michigan and Florida delegations. What would most easily push Barack over the top, however, would be for Clinton's superdelegate support to erode. She currently has (estimates vary), approximately 270 superdelegates. If half of this number switched to Obama, as former Senator George McGovern recently has (unfortunately he's not a superdelegate), then the nomination fight could end quickly and easily. I have already written to my Michigan superdelegates (Granholm, Stabenow and Dingell, the three appearing on my election ballots), asking them to publicly throw their support behind Obama. It's probably futile, but then again these are politicians and I'm sure they see the writing on the wall. Although I'm sure there are a number of Truthers out there, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some superdelegates wouldn't mind having a good excuse to hide behind in ditching Hillary. Give them a reason: write your elected superdelegates today!

12:43 pm

Apropos my posting last night on the list of superdelegates currently pledged to Hillary, I should have also included the list of currently unpledged superdelegates. I didn't see any of my elected officials on this list, but if any if yours are there I suggest you get in contact with them.

By the way, today marks the sixty-third anniversary of the German surrender. In Russia (and much of the rest of the former USSR), Victory Day (den' pobedy) is a major holiday and is celebrated on May 9th (time zone differences on the day of surrender account for the discrepancy). Here is a YouTube clip from last year's celebrations on Red Square in Moscow. C днем победы! Happy Victory Day!