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Obama's growing electability problem.

I am not the only lifelong Democrat finding myself less enchanted with Barack Obama the more I get to know him. Frankly, it will take more than a minor miracle for him to get my vote in November if he is nominated - or, more accurately, installed - as the Democratic candidate of choice to run again John McCain at the convention in August. I live in Pennsylvania, which is shaping up to be a battleground state, should Obama be the nominee. Richard Baehr at RealClearPolitics lays out what happens when enough voters feel as alienated as I do:

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Congressional leaders continue attempts to cram Obama down our throats

How undemocratic the Democratic Party has become. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, in a disgustingly obvious attempt to prematurely end the race, are pressuring superdelegates to state whether they are endorsing Clinton or Obama by next week. From the New York Times:

Hoping to bring their party’s presidential nomination fight to an end, the two top Democrats in Congress said they were pressing superdelegates who had yet to declare a preference in the race to make their choice public by the middle of next week.

Party officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, had been contacting uncommitted superdelegates, encouraging them to prepare to go public and resolve any last question about the contest between Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Pelosi dares to take impeachment for Bush and company "off the table," but has the unmitigated gaul to try and force the hands of superdelegates? And what of Reid? What is his issue? In fact, what is the issue any of these so-called "democrats" (the lower-case "D" is intentional, just like when I speak of republicans like Bush and Cheney - note the lower-case "R") have with letting the process run it's course naturally? Of course not - that might mean that Hillary Clinton ends up getting nominated, resulting in the Democrats taking the White House and we simply can not let that happen!

Pelosi and Reid may succeed in their little haka to get superdelegates to endorse for one candidate or another, but until the votes are officially cast in August, the endorsements are meaningless. Unlike pledged delegates, the superdelegates are unpledged - they can endorse and re-endorse and flippity-flop from candidate to candidate on a day to day basis, if they so choose (SEE: Kevin Rodriquez). No superdelegate endorsement matters until August!

Hillary is ahead in the popular vote. She is ahead in the electoral college polls, handily winning battleground and swing states. Meanwhile, Obama's poll numbers are slipping among every demographic except African-Americans, while his unfavourable rating is actually higher than Hillary's now!

All the way to the fucking convention!

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