[aruanan]

But she never asked her supporters to support Obama.

She said no way no how McCain, but she didn't say it was Obama that was going to do it. What will happen, after the convention, if Obama's polls continue to plummet, helped on by revelations of his complicity in funneling money to radical groups through the Annenburg (sp?) group, of a really, really tight relationship with Ayers and Dorn, and, oh, video from Larry? Would party leaders pull the plug on his candidacy?

[ClearCase_guy]

The entire purpose of the superdelegates is to allow party leaders to pull the plug on a candidate for whom they now have buyer's remorse.

Obama is a textbook example of why the Democrats have superdelegates. But this is not a mechanism they can use in Sept or Oct. They pretty much have to make their choice TODAY, and after that there is no going back.

I still think that there could be a floor fight and Obama could lose it all. Yes, it will destroy the party. Yes, it's unlikely. But some of folks in that convention hall believe it's the right thing to do.

[mouse1]

Speech was carefully planned
Started out as proud mother, senator etc (dig at Michele?)
And then went on rambling about what she wanted to achieve in office (typical stump speech)
Didnt hear any specifics why to vote bho (only party unity)
Dems had two choices in the primaries, an overstuffed pantsuit or an empty suit
I think many regret they chose the latter

[SampleMan]

Would party leaders pull the plug on his candidacy?

They have no power to do so. Once the delegates vote, they are locked in.