It's about time he steps up to represent the voters. What a joke.

Thank you rep. larsen you are a great American

It is time for our state's other supers to get a backbone and choose someone. And if they want to help McCain they can prolong the Democrates agony by choosing or sticking with Hillary. They're still scared to cross the Clintons.

McDermott for VP. Would never work, I just have always like the guy.

the clintons are dead ducks, politically speaking.

Why not? It's pretty apparent he's going to get the nomination now. It's not like Larsen is sticking his liberal neck out.

Hillary will stay in until the bitter end for 3 reasons:
1) Set herself up for 2012
2) Be there if Obama implodes with another stupid comment and association.
3) Michigan & Florida situation still up in the air.

Super delegates need to know that Mrs. Clinton has won key swing states important in the general election. She has the support of the middle class who are the mojority of this country and has the support of women, Hispanics, seniors, blue collar Democrat and Republican, Catholics, Jews, Asian, and 12% of the African American vote. Mr. Obama can't win the general election with young and African American alone. Mr. Bush won with only 16% of the African American vote. On top of this take away the Republicans who voted for him to knock off Mrs. Clinton. She is the only one who can beat Mr. McCain in the general election.
If Mr. Obama is the nominee, welcome Mr. McCain or Nader since too many people are not going to vote for Mr. Obama.

It's really time Clinton called it. If she has any loyalty to her party at all, she will.

btw, saw a funny website trying to get her to drop out: SurrenderHillary.com

In the broader scheme of things, this fits with the strategy revealed by the Obama campaign yesterday - to slowly dribble a couple super delegates every day, mostly to let the Clinton supporters down softly in hopes of letting them resolve their issues with switching sides in a slow, methodical manner, lest they bolt and run away completely. There's even speculation that camp Obama is asking some to withold their announcement so not too many drop at once. Brilliant strategy - let's hope it works.

Yikes, I hope this eases your worry some. Michigan in Florida would be highly unlikely to make a difference in the outcome even if they were both counted as is. Also I don't think Clinton seriously wants to sabotage Obama in 2008. I believe she will change the tone of her campaign now, and she might even play along with a strategy of slowly easing her support back into the fold for Obama. As for Obama imploding, it seems to me that is a fair argument for her to stay in the race until all of the states have had their say.

Pelz leans Obama. He can't declare yet probably because he's the state party chair. I'd be really surprised if he didn't endorse Obama.

Who are Eileen Macoll, Ed Cote, Sharon Mast and David McDonald?

Oh, they're just people who get to independently decide the future of this nation and world even though they're NOT representative of the people. There is something SERIOUSLY wrong with a party system that gives such weighted power to unelected, unaccountable insider party hacks.

Not every political party has such an (ironically) undemocratic nominating process....

AD,
The democratic super delegates include every elected democrat mayor, Senate and House representative, other sitting elected officials, and ex-elected officials like Bill Clinton and John Edwards...etc. The balance are party activists. They are a collective safety net to implement the majority will of the people if there's buyer's regret after individual state primaries have been decided and it's too late to change the vote.
Like the electoral college, they're fairly irrelevant to the final outcome except in extraordinary situations, including a close race like this. But rest assured they have achieved representative authority or responsibility in one form or another to become super delegates, and their purpose is not to override the majority wishes of the party. To the contrary, they're role is to implement a significant majority shift in preference after it would otherwise be too late to do so.

What's wrong with the rest of the delegation? Oh, yeah, they are paying back Clinton even though 70% of Washington went for Obama. Note that McDermott, Murray and Cantwell have all had help from Hillary and/or Bill. Maybe they can help her repay her campaign debt, but in the meantime they should come out for Obama. But the party officials have no excuses, they're just a bunch of chickens.

Lesson for us all when these guys are all asking for $$: Don't give money to candidates that don't support our views.

Washington is a leading Socialist State, so why not give the rockstar and Larsen plug. The way I see it, Socialism is just a democrats stone throw away. Our college students have been being brainwashed for years by old hippy professors. So they will send America spinning off in that direction fast.

Eileen Macoll, Ed Cote, Sharon Mast and David McDonald were all elected via the grassroots WSDCC party structure. They are also accountable and up for re-election in January.
They also work very hard for the Democratic party. They've earned my trust and I wish them well with what was and may still be a hard decision.

JimD says "They [unaccountable superdelegates] are a collective safety net to implement the majority will of the people if there's buyer's regret..."

A safety net to protect whom from whom? It surely seems it's a safety net to protect insider Democrat Party activists from regular VOTERS.

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I could be used that way. But there's no evidence it either has been, or is going to be. The nomination - especially this one - is a dynamic event over the course of several months. What if there's an eleventh hour shift in consensus among those who voted in earlier primaries? In the meantime, I'll worry about the will of the people when if it appears it might be in jeopardy - which it isn't now and won't be - despite the hand wringing of those who don't understand the system or somehow believe the media's absurd suggestion that there's any chance the party would commit suicide. Do you remember the disaster in the 70's led to the creation of super delegates?