AP's Ron Fournier runs through some of the factors superdelegates will consider when deciding whether to vote for Hillary Clinton at the convention in Denver. The good news he thinks superdelegates will abandon Clinton. Unfortunately, the motives are often petty, even ugly.
Some are senators who had to defend Clinton for lying to the country about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. ... Some are folks who owe the Clintons a favor but still feel betrayed or taken for granted. Could that be why Bill Richardson, a former U.N. secretary and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, refused to endorse her even after an angry call from the former president? "What," Bill Clinton reportedly asked Richardson, "isn't two Cabinet posts enough?"
Superdelegates ought to support the candidate who wins the most democratically selected delegates -- it's the right thing to do.
© Jed Lewison