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Super-delegate Ribstein

Larry ponders what he’d do as a Democratic superdelegate:

I (the superdelegate) am figuring, there’s just too much we don’t know about this guy. He’s high variance as the finance types would say. Given our lack of background with him, each piece of news sharply changes his value, like some dot com stock. He thinks that ordinary people “cling” to religion? He likes this guy Wright? And what’s the story with this guy Rezko, and the whole Chicago thing? And anyway, I don’t really believe in this change message.  After all, I’m part of the system, and the system basically works.

And yet:  look at Clinton’s negatives, and all the bad will from the Obama folks if we hand the nomination to her after his supporters’ expectations were so high.