Pennsylvania Tuesday

The AP's David Espo writes that "Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes." Noting that since Obama's highly-publicized remarks about Americans who feel that Washington has forgotten them he has gained six superdelegates, Espo writes "There's little if any public evidence the party's elite, the superdelegates who will attend the convention, are buying" Hillary's "unprovable" argument that she is more electable.

In a similar vein, Joe Klein writes:

I woke up this morning with a gut feeling that the Philadelphia debate may have been the last straw for the Democratic Party, that the superdelegates are about to rush to Barack Obama in order to end this thing and liberate him to actually answer the Republican-style attacks that Hillary Clinton has been previewing.... My guess is that the superdelegate tidal wave is about to begin.

Klein cites an NY Times article titled "Superdelegates Unswayed by Clinton’s Attacks," in which superdelegates "said they had particularly tired of all the attention, by the Clinton campaign and the news media, on Mr. Obama’s recent comment that some Americans were 'bitter' over the economy and chose to 'cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them' as a result."

Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan noted:

Since Feb. 5, Senator Obama has garnered the support of 80 superdelegates to Senator Clinton’s 5. We’ll let the results of Senator Clinton’s ‘kitchen sink’ strategy speak for themselves.

An NY Times article from April 20 reviews the many "defections" from the Clinton camp, from former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who endorsed Obama on Friday, to Nancy Larson, a relatively unknown Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota who is a superdelegate formerly pledged to Clinton.

Meanwhile, an MSNBC News/McClatchy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll, and a Zogby tracking poll both show Clinton slightly ahead, but within the margin of error.