IIRC, he does have a block, small though it might be, of delegates pledged to him.  

Clinton confirmed for it and for the big annual Dem event in this state to be held in Milwaukee next weekend, too.  Obama was previously announced as speaking, too, but now won't confirm that, either.

He is coming to Madison this week, where he has the best chance of getting lots of votes -- but it's second to Milwaukee for Dem votes, Milwaukee has more college students with all campuses combined, and Milwaukee has mor ethan 95% of the AAs in the state.  Seems weird he's not confirming yet to come to Milwaukee -- but such matters change in a minute. . . .

As we saw today, with Chelsea Clinton at the biggest campus in town, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -- 30,000 students but such late notice, the time and site only in the paper this morning (plus it is BELOW ZERO) that it brought out about 100.  Still, that's the first Clinton event on any of the many campuses here yet, and I haven't heard of any for Obama, either.  (Chelsea Clinton now goes on to Madison and a couple of others on the way.)

And, as to the "conflict" between HRC and Obama supporters - it does not inure to the detriment of the Democrats.  Rather, it can (and if the Dems are smart, will) be useful to them.

First, by going all Lincoln-Douglas Debates all the way to the convention, the Dems will have the opportunity to work the general election voters via the mountains of free TV they will get.  The Dems can use every debate to be polite, collegial, dispute each other a bit, and then compare and contrast themselves to the 71 year old John McCain.

Second, the media will not be able to resist the whole "horse race" thing.  Good.  The Dems should use it to the Dems best effect.  Continue to work on distinguishing the Democratic "brand" from the Bush-McCain brand.  Pound on the (accurate) idea that McCain is just Four More Years of Bushism.

Third, the media will not be able to slide into an attack on the Dem nominee so long as the media can be taken under the lash of "access denied".  The way HRC and her campaign dealt on MSNBC over the Shuster issue exemplifies this.  The threat of cutting off access to the campaign got Shuster (effectively) fired, and put MSNBC back on its heels far enough that it came crawling.  This tactic only works when the Dem has something - access - to deny the media.  Once there is only one Democratic candidate, that candidate becomes a supplicant to the media for coverage and has to buy time.  While there is a horse-race, the media cannot avoid covering it and the candidates get coverage for free.  

In the horse race, the Dems then get to beat on McCain without too much intervening editorial color diminishing their message and maximizing the Repugs'.  

This flip of power relationships upon reduction to one Dem and one Repug candidate, BTW, also explains rationally why the media has worked so assiduously to winnow down the candidates.  First, they marginalized Edwards through no coverage.  Then, as Abrahms showed on his show last week, they went negative on HRC and positive on Obama by something like 3 to 1 or 5 to 1.  

The media know how this works - and how they get to be in the driver's seat - and they craft their coverage to get down to the point of one Dem candidate, where they control who sets the story.  Right now - and as long as there are two viable Dem candidates - the media does not get to control the story. This, because their going negative on a candidate immediately raises suspicions of "they're favoring the other candidate" - threatening their precious image of "objectivity".

So, IMHO, it's naive to think that the Dems (who are standing outside in record-turnout lines to caucus in Maine even after the blizzard starts), wanting nothing more than to get rid of Republicans, will allow any minor divisions between the candidated to get in the way of supporting the party nominee come the Convention.  Repugs are fond, when in their pushing-capitalism-and-no-regulation mode, of saying people are at their best and things work out for the best when people are allowed to act in their own enlightened self-interest.  

Democrats are no different than anyone else in that regard.  

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This is purely speculative on my part, but perhaps Obama's "busy schedule" - you know, the one that prevents him from being able to commit to debates and such--got in the way.

It seemed odd to me that Clinton has met with Edwards a couple of times now, once in his home, and Obama was not immediately rushing to do the same.

I hear  John  Kerry  and  Teddy Kennedy,  out of  respect  for  Obama's  new  rules  about  delegates  respecting  their  states,   are  going  to hold  a  press  conference  announcing    they're  voting  for   Hillary  Clinton,  since  she  won  Massachusetts.    

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