2008 is not 1968

On the subject of the superdelegates determining the election, Richmond Mayor Douglas Wilder, the Obama guest on Face the Nation today, just said, "If you think 1968 was bad, this will be worse," or something pretty close to that. And Frank Rich made basically the same point in his column last weekend. What's with these people? A brokered convention between Obama and Clinton would be nothing like a brokered convention that selects a guy who never contested the primaries and was pro-war even though the campaign started with their own party's sitting president getting a standing eight count from an anti-war candidate in New Hampshire and later saw another anti-war candidate win the California primary only to be shot and killed the same day. Seriously, if there are protesters on the streets during the Democrats' convention this year, which I doubt, it would be like a fart in the wind of the 1968 tornado.

I think the competitive disparity between the two parties is so lopsided right now that the Democrats could absorb the chilling effect of the superdelegates being pivotal and STILL win in November. It would probably hurt the down-ticket prospects, but still, people seem pretty sick and tired of the Republicans.