After a convincing showing last night, Barack Obama is turning his attention to the party's superdelegates. Lynn Sweet reports that the Illinois senator has scheduled rounds of meetings with uncommitted delegates in D.C. tomorrow. We can glean Obama's pitch from a memo that campaign manager David Plouffe sent out this morning, courtesy of The New York Times:
With the Clinton path to the nomination getting even narrower, we expect new and wildly creative scenarios to emerge in the coming days. While those scenarios may be entertaining, they are not legitimate and will not be considered legitimate by this campaign or its millions of supporters, volunteers, and donors.
We believe it is exceedingly unlikely Senator Clinton will overtake our lead in the popular vote and in fact lost ground on that measure last night. However, the popular vote is a deeply flawed and illegitimate metric for deciding the nominee – since each campaign based their strategy on the acquisition of delegates. More importantly, the rules of the nomination are predicated on delegates, not popular vote.
On Good Morning America, ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos predicted superdelegates "will come three, four, five at a time" for Obama beginning today, essentially ending the nomination fight.
"More superdelegates will come out today for Barack Obama – they and this nomination will be locked up.”
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