Hillary Clinton is talking as if the battle over seating disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic National Convention is the greatest crisis for democracy since the 2000 Florida recount. Her rhetoric flies in the face of intensive efforts by members of the party's rules committee to settle the delegate battle with a compromise that would probably guarantee the nomination for Barack Obama. Ending the struggle quickly depends on whether the committee's peacemakers succeed in their work. Clinton's chances of winning are slim, partly because some of her own supporters believe the contest is over. They see the...
