2008-04-10 A Silver Lining In the Blue Battle

2008-04-10 \Markos Moulitsas\2008 US presidential race\Barack Obama\Hillary Clinton http://www.newsweek.com/id/130606 A Silver Lining In the Blue Battle by Markos Moulitsas: &ldquo;No matter how you define victory, Barack Obama holds an insurmountable lead in the race to earn the Democratic nomination. He leads in the one metric that matters most: the pledged delegates chosen directly by Democratic voters. But he also leads in the popular vote, the number of states won and money raised. Still, Obama's advantages aren't large enough to allow him an outright victory. He needs the 20 percent of party delegates who aren't bound to a candidate. It's with these superdelegates that Clinton has staked her ephemeral chances. ... Yet while the Beltway establishment frets about the alleged damage this drawn-out contest is doing to the Democratic Party, in reality, it's been an almost unalloyed good.&rdquo;   