Clinton: "... every delegate is expected to exercise independent judgment." Alter: "They are in the death throes of their campaign"

OLBERMANN: But why constantly have that as a suggestion this is a campaign of implication? Why constantly have that in the back of everybody‘s head? You know, we may get the - the pledged delegates may change. You know, they may have to change their minds. The superdelegates may have to override this.

If it is a catastrophe waiting to happen, why invoke it? Is it naturally a sure distraction, what is it?

ALTER: It‘s desperation. I mean, this is—look, in the media, we have so many people covering this thing with so much investment in it cyclically that we do tend to make it seem like it‘s a closer race than it really is.

OLBERMANN: Right.

ALTER: They are in the death rows of their campaign. It doesn‘t matter if they win Pennsylvania. They would have to, you know, win with 70 percent margins in states like North Carolina where they are currently behind by 20 points. They have to win states like Oregon, which were tailored made for Obama.

As things stand right now, they have no path to the nomination except what you have described, to, you know, to change the process in fundamental ways that would not be acceptable to the Democratic Party.

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