Supersize This

Need Hillary Clinton worry? Unlike the Republicans these days, the Democrats still have superdelegates, party grandees who are ex officio full voting members of the Convention and free to align entirely as they please. From Bill Clinton himself down, these are overwhelmingly cogs in the Clinton machine.

Both parties are looking at brokered Conventions this year. But on the Democratic side, Bill Clinton’s wife, notable for nothing else, would in that case be home and dry, regardless of the votes cast in caucuses and primaries. The only way of preventing this humiliating spectacle is by preventing a brokered Convention. In other words, by voting for John Edwards.