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While the rivals who vanquished him campaigned in his state, former presidential candidate and North Carolina Senator John Edwards decamped with his family to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Despite extensive behind-the-scenes conversations with the campaigns of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards has yet to endorse either candidate. His politically active wife Elizabeth has also withheld her support, though she took time off from their vacation to talk to the media about how much she likes Clinton's health-care plan--and dislikes McCain's. On May 6, John Edwards plans to choose between Obama...
...happened, most of what Ickes uttered into his phone in a Virginia hotel lounge that recent afternoon was punctuated with so many expletives that it was unquotable in this magazine. But that call was like hundreds he is making each week now as Hillary Clinton's top superdelegate hunter, the person stalking, hectoring and sometimes winning over new supporters from among the nearly 800 elected officials, party leaders and activists who will almost certainly choose the next Democratic nominee...
Ickes' superdelegate search had the feel of utter futility only a few weeks ago, when both math and momentum seemed to rule Clinton out of contention. But then came her 9-point win in Pennsylvania, highlighting Barack Obama's persistent weakness among Catholics, senior women, Hispanics and blue-collar workers, and the self-aggrandizing return of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the political spotlight. These two events have played perfectly into a pitch Ickes had been making to superdelegates for months: that "we don't know enough about Obama" to make him the nominee. "The one thing we Democrats...
Gone too, argues Ickes, is the other big strike against Clinton: that she's not as electable as Obama in a matchup against John McCain. Polls have lately shown Clinton faring better than Obama against McCain--in one recent poll, 7 points better--in part, Ickes says, because of her enduring popularity with key Democratic constituencies in the states that matter the most in a general-election campaign...
Still, the math remains prohibitive. For all of Ickes' efforts, it is Obama who has been steadily chipping away at Clinton's lead among superdelegates. Meanwhile, almost every scenario has Obama maintaining his slim but stable lead among pledged delegates through the May 6 contests in Indiana and North Carolina--and the final primaries on June 3. The idea that Clinton can narrow her deficit among all delegates and then vault over Obama with a rush of support from uncommitted superdelegates is still remote. But it no longer seems impossible. There are fresh signs that the dispute over the rogue...