The end game: Obama's superdelegate strategy

By GottaLaff

Obama's laughing all the way to the banking:

Neither the Clinton nor the Obama campaign is clear what the DNC's rules and bylaws committee will do on May 31; depending upon how or whether they re-allocate delegates, Obama could wind up within to 20 to 30 votes of the nomination -- a situation rectifiable by a piddling performance in Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana -- or more than 100 delegates short, requiring solid performances in those states plus a few dozen superdelegate endorsements to put him over the top.

To prepare for that eventuality, the Obama campaign has, for the first time, really, begun to bank delegates. Sources close to the campaign estimate that as many as three dozen Democratic superdelegates have privately pledged to announce their support for Obama on June 4 or 5. The campaign is determined that Obama not end the first week in June without securing the support of delegates numbering 2026 -- or 2210, as the case may be.

As nice as it would be to end this thing sooner than later, psychologically, this works in his favor, too. He'll repeat his domination of the news cycle after the primaries, provide himself with more positive headlines, and hopefully end this excruciating race once and for all... until Hillary pulls another fast one, that is.