Why hello, Harry and Nancy. It's about time you fucking said shit or get off the pot to the remaining 65 undeclared supers:
In an interview this morning with KGO Radio, while promoting his new book, Reid said he spoke this morning about the campaign with Pelosi and to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean last night. "We agree there won't be a fight at the convention," he told radio listeners, appearing to suggest that Obama would have sufficient delegates to presume victory next week.
Later, at the Commonwealth Club, Reid predicted definitively that the race would conclude shortly after the South Dakota and Montana contests, without specifying who the nominee would be. "By this time next week, it'll be all over, give or take a day," Reid said.
Pelosi, in an hourlong meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board, predicted the nominee would emerge within a week of the last votes next Tuesday. "I think it is all going in the right direction," she said in the Wednesday interview, which was published in the newspaper today. She said it would be resolved "in an orderly fashion" as early as next week.
In particular, Pelosi was adamant that the race would last through August and the convention in Denver.
"We cannot take this fight to the convention," she said. "It must be over before then."
Howard Dean seems to agree, and the Clintonites have already lost a major battle to get all of Florida and Michigan's delegates counted, which means the magic number may slip into the 2100s. This makes the attainment of a majority dicey, but not impossible. Clinton supers will probably have to defect 10-20 to the other side, and Edwards delegates must and likely will go in the Obama column- and then finally, there really won't be much to say, except for the sour grapes crowd who thinks it was ok for Hillary to cheat in Florida and Michigan and they'll bitch about the popular vote for a little while. Let 'em. They'll come in from the cold soon.