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- Regardless of whether there's a superdelegate "convention" it seems that everyone agrees that once the last primaries are over on June 3rd all superdelegates should make a decision about who they support and do so publicly rather than wait for the convention (at least I haven't heard anyone argue this is a bad idea). Howard Dean suggests they do so by July 1st, though why they'd have to wait a month is unclear to me.
- Meanwhile Senator Pat Leahy argues that Clinton should drop out now. Even if more leaders join him though, I could see this actually helping Clinton. The average voter probably has less of an idea of how hard it is for Clinton to win at this point than people like Leahy do and a movement to encourage her to drop out of the race could be perceived as an unfair attempt to rig the result (wrongly, in my view). Clinton has done best when she's been seen as a victim and more calls for her to drop out could increase her support. On the other hand, they could also influence superdelegates who are probably more important than voters at this point and push them away from supporting her.
- The Clinton campaign argued that Obama has been lying by claiming to have been a law professor. While technically his title at the University of Chicago Law School was "senior lecturer" the school says that senior lecturers are considered professors and that Obama was offered a tenure-track professor's position several times but turned it down due to lack of time (he was also a state senator at the time). So yeah, this is just about as dumb an argument as you think.
- Clinton adviser Jamie Rubin describes Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble as a "crankpot" (which is an awesome coinage by the way) for saying that Clinton did not have a big role in the Northern Irealand peace process (he also accused the man of sexism and of being a conservative because he is a Protestant).
- Radar asks if you can tell the difference between descriptions of Jesus and Barack Obama. It turns out to be rather hard.
--Sam Boyd
