DNC Wants Superdelegates To Override Popular Vote; Bill Clinton Exposes Pressure on Hillary to `Quit While Winning'

May 27, 2008 (LPAC)--Pressure is increasing from Howard Dean's DNC and Nancy Pelosi's Democratic Congressional leadership, for Democratic superdelegates to overrule the popular vote in primaries and caucuses, by forcing Sen. Hillary Clinton out of the Presidential race immediately after June 3, when she likely will have won the total Democratic popular vote.

Former President Bill Clinton laid out to a crowd of Hillary supporters in Ft. Thompson, South Dakota, the pressure on Hillary Clinton to quit the race while she leads in the primary popular vote--before Florida and Michigan are counted and increase her lead further--together with "unbelievable" attempts to "bully" superdelegates into prematurely declaring for a candidate.

"Why have all these people tried to force her out of this race?" Bill Clinton posed to the South Dakota crowd on May 25. "This is really interesting.... Because, if you vote for her, and she does well in Montana, and wins in Puerto Rico, then she will be ahead in the popular vote, and they're trying to get her to cry `uncle' before the Democratic Party has to decide what to do about Florida and Michigan... They are closing it out, saying it takes 2,029 votes on the first ballot to win. It takes a lot more if you put Florida and Michigan back in. Well, they'll have to put them back in, unless we want to lose the [November] election."

Today, ABC-TV pundit George Stephanopoulos rose to the bait, and pronounced on "Good Morning America" that Hillary Clinton's chances were "zero" of continuing her campaign past the end of the primaries on June 3. "Once these contests are done, said Stephanapoulos, "you'll see several dozen superdelegates go his [Obama's] way following June 3."

Former President Jimmy Carter said on May 25 on Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV, "I'm a superdelegate. I think a lot of the superdelatges will make a decision announced quite rapidly after the final primary on June 3.... I have not yet announced publicly, but I think at that point it will be time for her to give it up."

Carter, who was the Democratic Party's "sure loser" nominee against Ted Kennedy in 1980, when Carter went on to a landslide loss to Ronald Reagan, now ironically sees no problem with enforcing a "can't win" Obama nomination.

Bill Clinton charged that polls showing that Hillary would win the general election, while Obama would not, were being suppressed. He cited polls showing Hillary winning states which Democrats must carry to win in November.