True, neither can win without the superdelegates. But the truth is that if women want to abandon the Democratic Party because Hillary Clinton wasn't nominated where do they go? To John McCain and the Republicans? Then kiss reproductive and civil rights goodbye for your lifetime. Your choice.

If my theory is true you will hear superdelegates one by one announce for Obama between now and Pennsylvania while party leaders come out calling for some kind of conclusion before the convention. The last thing that the leaders want is one candidate to have the delegate lead and another to have the popular vote, so don't expect the DNC to go out of their way to help FL or MI, but do expect the onslaught of superdelegates before PA. In the last few days Walter Shorenstein (a big Democratic party money man) said the race needed a conclusion. So did Art Torres, head of the Democratic Party in California. Why didn't either man endorse Hillary? After all, Hillary won California. Because, in order for the race to end before the convention Hillary has to lose and concede. She cannot win the nomination without a convention fight. They are doing the best they can to avoid that. Sherrod Brown did the same thing on NPR this morning. He talked about bringing the race to a close but would not endorse Clinton, who had just won his state. What does that say to you?

It truly is a bad situation for the Party bigwigs. They don't want to see themselves snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.