As of Saturday, about 150 superdelegates remained officially uncommitted. Mr. Obama's supporters have been hammering away at them, urging them to move quickly to his camp.

"A number of people have reported that various members intend to endorse AFTER the last primary," said one e-mail message to wavering delegates from Mr. Obama's supporters, its warning barely couched. "Those members need to understand that they won't get any visibility from that."

Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who endorsed Mr. Obama nearly two months ago, recently called Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. of Colorado, who has yet to endorse a candidate. "Hey, Ritter!" Mr. Richardson said.
"After June 3, it means nothing. Those who take a little bit of a risk, he'll remember you."

 But, ObamaTeam have been telling one and all they have the votes and that it's a done deal.

  If so, why are they hi-pressuring people to commit BEFORE the primaries are over ?   Have they just been trying to convince SDs they have enough so that they will vote rather than be "left behind" ?

  The NYTimes story continues:

At least a dozen uncommitted delegates are viewed by both camps as almost certain to side with Mr. Obama once the primary season ends. But there are dozens of uncommitted superdelegates who resisted endorsements for reasons that are personal, political and pragmatic -- ranging from a fear of alienating contributors to reluctance among lawmakers from relatively conservative districts to be identified with either Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton.

Wexler must have been shouting due to the pressure he felt that they must not allow full delegations as the Magic Number would have gone up that much more and already today he was pushing, pushing to get 4 more that Clinton had certainly earned, since she wasn't cleverly removing her name to please Iowa when no requirement was made to remove names.  In fact, the DNC put on at least Obama's name while they were looking at the time problems.

Do you have a preference about whether to go into federal or state work?  I can tell you that federal pays more, but you don't get a defined pension plan with the feds anymore.  You still get a defined pension plan with the state, which means you can retire as early as 55, and take home a pension roughly equal to what you earned for a year at your highest level of pay.  

Not a compelling argument at 25, I know, but one that gets more and more attractive the older you get :)

Anytime I was outta work, and sincerely wanted to work, I had a job within a week or 2 tops.  By pounding the pavement.

Instead, he took the wimp way out.  

This is bigger than the candidates. Yesterday Salon's War Room described the scene of the black limousines carrying the RBC members rolling past protesters calling for counting the votes.
These people came from all over the country, many on buses (no, not paid for or organized thru the Clinton campaign) to stand in the pouring rain with their signs as the RBC  limos (with tinted windows, no doubt) roll by.

But sent them all back as "defective."

1. The popular vote may be persuasive to superdelegates who are interested in following the will of the Democratic voters.
   
2. Caucus are included in the popular vote, actual totals being used in most cases, estimates in a few.
   
3. Not everyone is like that.  Some are, some aren't.  Sometimes the people who feel more strongly also tend to be more vocal.
   
4. While it's reasonable to look at the election as nothing more than a choice between two competing ideologies, not everyone sees it as the red team vs. the blue team.  Sometimes people look at the individuals and make a different choice.  My grandfather, who has voted for every Democratic candidate since FDR, probably won't vote for Obama but I still think he counts as a real Democrat.
   
5. Here is a link that may answer your question.  There were also two separate instances where Obama inappropriately addressed professional women as "sweetie."  I'm not going to try and provide an exhaustive list.
   
6. It's not true that all the candidates agreed to such a thing.  It was a DNC ruling that the candidates were not consulted on.  You may have heard that Sen. Clinton told someone on a radio show in New Hampshire that the upcoming election in Michigan wouldn't count; while some Obama supporters interpret that as some sort of promise, it's also reasonable to believe that she was simply making a factual statement about the ruling that was then in existence.  Sen. Clinton consistently reaffirmed the importance of giving MI and FL voters a voice in the process to ensure that the Democrats can compete in those states in November.
   
7. Unless you're going to throw out the election results from MI altogether, it's clear that Sen. Clinton received votes entitling her to 73 pledged delegates.  In the interests of compromise, the DNC looked at exit polls and decided that some of her voters actually would have preferred to vote for someone else, so they took 4 of the 73 and gave them to Sen. Obama.  The rules of the DNC clearly prohibit this, as even their own lawyers acknowledged.

generally agreed that George Bush and John Mccain are nigh indistinguishable from one another