Especially in light of the fact that after tomorrow there will be more undeclared superdelegates than uncommitted pledged delegates, there is a certain irony to this snippet from a Reuters article yesterday:

"Let me tell you the bottom line: They don't want to make this choice if they don't have to," said Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, co-chair of the Obama campaign.

"They are trying to avoid the pain of what comes with making the choice because some of their constituents back home are going to be for the other person," he said.

"Many come up to me and say, 'Don't worry, I'm for Barack.' I say, 'When?' They say, 'Well, maybe she'll drop out.'" Maybe. Maybe not.

The very supers who most wanted to avoid the spotlight have actually put themselves directly in the middle of it. But there is still time for them to get out.

They could join the "Pelosi club" -- meaning they will agree to support the pledged delegate winner, whomever that ends up being. If they do that, when Obama secures the pledged delegate majority on May 20, voters will be seen has having decided the nomination contest.

If the supers stay on the sideline, they are much more likely to be seen as having decided the nomination, no matter how absurd or unfair such a characterization would be.

Unfortunately, not enough superdelegates appear have yet seen the wisdom in joining the Pelosi club to allow voters to put Obama over the top on May 20. Why not? Your guess is as good as mine, but it doesn't make much sense to me. By all accounts, we'll know who the nominee is by the middle of June. Wouldn't superdelegates rather have the voters be seen as having made the decision instead of them?

Still, if that's the bad news, then things are going pretty well.

While Hillary Clinton is starting to lose the confidence of her own superdelegate supporters, Barack Obama does keep plugging along in picking up superdelegates. Today alone, he's projected to pick up another six superdelegates. (I think that NBC included three of those six in the delegate math I blogged yesterday, but I'm not 100% sure.) Between the superdelegate announcements and tomorrow's gains in pledged delegates, Obama will probably need less than 170 more delegates after tomorrow's primary (taking the 7 non-Obama supporting Pelosi club members into account).

The unshakable fact is that every day that Barack Obama picks up more delegates is a good day for him. He's not running against Hillary Clinton any more -- he's running against the finish line. It's just a question of when he'll get there.