There’s a story from ABC News that President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton are directly appealing to Democratic superdelegates with this argument: Obama can’t beat John McCain. And a quick look at RealClearPolitics.com appears to support the notion. After compiling voter polls and tallying the averages, a hypothetical matchup in key states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida has McCain beating Obama head-to-head. Florida has McCain up 8 points, Ohio by 5 and Pennsylvania in a squeaker, and anybody who wants to put down 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as their address is going to need to win at least one of those states in November. Lose all three? Devastating.
And yet … there’s this point:
We will have a unified party behind whoever will be our nominee. I have no doubt about that.
Sen. Clinton said this during an interview with the Intelligencer Journal earlier this month, which begs a few questions:
-If superdelegates swing the nomination to her, who right now is a close second to Obama in the overall Democratic contest, then Democrats can win the White House?
-But if superdelegates pick the candidate who has more pledged delegates after all the primaries, McCain’s going to win, even if Democrats are united behind the nominee?
