Jed reports that May 20th is when Obama can pretty much declare himself the winner of the Democratic nomination:
As Barack says, the key thing about May 20 (the day of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries) is that on that day, he will secure a majority of democratically selected pledged delegates. After that point, the most important part of the process will be over. Unless superdelegates decide to overturn the judgment of voters and take the nomination away from Obama, it will be his.
We all know that won't happen, especially after Obama's blowout victory in North Carolina and his close performance in Indiana. (He would have won Indiana were it not for the meddling McCain supporters.)
The key reason we need superdelegates to get off their butts and sign up with Team Obama before May 20 is that as a party, we must make it clear that voters -- not party insiders -- chose our nominee.
That's 11 days for Hillary to slowly bow out gracefully. Obama's being generous. He won two months ago. And now that the media has turned on Hillary, as have her donors, he doesn't have to give her breathing space at all - but he is. Let's see how classy the Clintons and their staff can be. And, let's see if the superdelegates finally get a spine.
