Now I know I am getting ahead of myself here but after watching the Richardson endorsement, I think the Obama/Richardson ticket would be THE dream ticket of the general election. Richardson brings so much to the table to bolster Obama:
1-He has foreign policy experience
2-He has executive experience
3-He actually served in a successful administration
4-He speaks Spanish so he can work on getting the Latino vote in Tx, Arizona, CA, NM, NV,etc,...
5-He is a shrewd negotiator who can push Obama's proposal to negotiate with both friends and enemies. He actually negotiated with the North Koreans and Saddam.
6-He has less of the baggage of the Clinton days.

Now barring a miracle in which Clinton wins Penn, Indiana, North Carolina and WV, I think Edwards may well break his silence and endorse Obama as well before the end of the primary season. One can only hope...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi just said onABC's This Week that the nomination process is: "a delegate race" and she compared it to the general election as an electoral college votes race.

http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek

It would be helpful if some other prominent democrats like Howard Dean or Al Gore came out and made the same statement so we can stop these attempts by the Clinton campaign to move the goal-post while the game is in progress and suggest that only the popular vote counts or tht only wins in certain states are indicative of a nominee's strength,etc...

Now, one could make all kinds of very valid arguments about the democratic deficit of both the delegate race and the electoral college system. But those arguments or that re-jiging of the process should not impact an ongoing race. Otherwise it leaves the impression that the rules are being changed to favor the Establishment candidate.