Clinton's Endgame: The Superdelegate Plot

The New York Times reports in a conspiratorial tone that the Clinton camp is "plotting" its campaign endgame, which is to secure enough addtional victories and superdelegate to win the Democratic nomination:

Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today began plotting a ground game, advertising budgets and a confidence-brimming outreach strategy in hopes of both scoring a big victory in April’s Pennsylvania primary and accumulating enough superdelegates over time to even the nomination fight against Senator Barack Obama.
Mr. Obama, who had 11 straight primary and caucus victories in February, has enjoyed momentum lately in picking off superdelegates, the party leaders who have a vote in the nomination. Mrs. Clinton and her advisers now believe that with her victories in Texas and Ohio last night, she can convince superdelegates to stand with her after a Pennsylvania victory.

She also believes that a strong showing in Pennsylvania, which has 188 delegates at stake, could set up a powerful one-two punch two weeks later in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, which have a combined 218 delegates. Her team believes she has an especially good shot at winning Indiana, where the state’s influential Democratic senator, Evan Bayh, a former two-term governor, was one of Mrs. Clinton’s earliest supporters.

The "big question" now among bloggers on both the left and right is whether Democratic primary battles will sink the party this year, either in a riotous August nominating convention or through internecine battles so severe that a victory for either candidate can only by Pyrrhic.

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