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The Clinton campaign would prefer that superdelegates use the popular vote as a criterion for their decision, since Clinton’s slim chances of winning the popular vote are better than her next-to-impossible chances of winning the pledged delegate vote. Obama aides say that the Clinton team’s new emphasis on the popular vote is a desperate stratagem they’ve been forced into by Obama’s pledged delegate numbers. This is true, but if the debate is over what criteria the superdelegates should use, any argument goes. But, wait, Obama supporters will insist, the rules say nothing about superdelegates following the popular vote. Correct. They also say nothing about superdelegates following the pledged delegate lead.
— John Dickerson in “Obama Won Texas: Winning doesn’t mean exactly what it used to,” Slate, March 12, 2008.
