Algore is actually very easy to beat. He's done nothing for local party people for a long time. Dems have a habit of not supporting those who have not supported them somewhere.That's correct. And Obama is rolling in money, and has spread around a lot of money. More than Hillary has. All the elected Democrat super-delegates are salivating at the prospect of getting a slice of Obama's leftover primary election war chest once we enter the general election. They are not, however, looking forward to the the prospect of the Clintons back in power, where they can exact revenge on all of the disloyal Obama supporters who stabbed Hillary in the back. And there are a great many of them, and in high places.
Remember, almost all Dems are in it for the money.
If that happened, Bill Richardson would have to go into the Witness Protection Program.
But if Obama could be convinced to cheerfully take the VP slot as a "co-president," and could sell it in the 'hood, that just might work. They get the dough (left-overs are Obama's property, legal fair and square), and they keep the Black vote on the plantation.
Such a deal! And look at the credit Obama would get as a hero of the party. OK, so he's president next time. He's young. He'll get over it.
Alternate scenario: a real scandal bomb drops on the Golden-Tongued Anointed One, something with low down dirty sex and drugs ... what happens then?