Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) is one of the Obama campaign's congressional whips, meaning that she's in charge of counting and coralling those undeclared or wavering superdelegates on Capitol Hill. Yesterday, Talking Point Memo's Greg Sargent asked Bean: "How often do super-dels raise concerns about Reverend Wright, or about Hillary's claim that Obama struggles with blue collar whites?" Here's her response:

"I have not heard that as a reservation from anybody. I only heard about Reverend Wright in the context of people saying it made them decide to step forward sooner to declare their support for Senator Obama."

If this is true, than the congressional superdelegates are quite a bit more shrewd than the media has given them credit for. For weeks and weeks, the talking heads have been telling us that the Wright controversy would cause superdelegates to second-guess Obama (while ignoring that his skillful handling of the matter might, to the contrary, encourage them). Media figures have also propped up the flawed narrative -- advanced by the Clinton campaign -- that Obama's relative lack of support among working-class whites in the Democratic primaries spelled doom for his general election prospects.

Well, if Bean's account is accurate, the congressional superdelegates didn't bite. Good for them.