I am not saying that there is going to be upheaval or that we need to be upset.
I am pointing out in this diary that some troubling signs are popping up and  we need to be aware and vigilant.

Last night I read an article on the strong arm tactics by some former Clinton supporters towards the delegates going to the convention next week.
Today, on Political wire I read about Hillary's brother and some former backers meeting with McCain's aide, Fiorina.

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http://www.commercialappeal.com/...

Crossposted from DemConWatch

Some Clinton supporters are making unrealistic claims about the level of support they will get at the convention:

Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join her. - Politico

Not likely. It's time to look once again at the superdelegate counts. As of June 6th, when we froze the counts, Obama had the public, announced support of 157 Representatives, Clinton had 52.5, and 22 had not announced. (MI and FL still counted at 1/2 votes). For Clinton to get 1/2 the total votes, she needs all 22 Representatives who did not endorse anybody, plus another 40 or so to change their vote from the winner of the nomination to the loser. That's just not going to happen.

I don't know about you, but this worries me...

Mark Ambinder of the Atlantic.com is reporting that Clinton's Name Likely To Be Placed In Nomination at the Democratic National Convention!

More after the jump...

Cross posted from Future Majority.

The DNC Youth Council just put out a press release announcing that young people will make up 16% of convention participants in Denver:

Washington, DC – Growing on the strong performance of young voters during the primaries, young people are set to make up just over 16% of all convention delegates, alternates, standing committee members and pages, at the end of the month in Denver, beating all previous records.

Based on information from the Office of the Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, there are scheduled to be 631 delegates aged 36 and under helping to select the Democratic Party presidential nominee. This record performance tops the 11% of youth delegates in 2004 and the 9% in 2000.

Bear in mind that youth is being defined here as 18 - 36, not the usual 18 - 30 we talk about.  The DNC (and YDA) both use that metric as the definition of "youth" for the purposes of internal matters.  

Crossposted on Texas Campaign 2008
By Faith Chatham - DFWRCC - Aug. 10, 2008
"Overwhelmed", "chaotic", and "not complying with the election code or Texas Democratic Party Rules" is how many Texas Democratic Precinct and Senatorial Convention attendees describe the Texas Two-Step.  Texas is the only state to apportion part (2/3) of their national presidential pledged delegates by the results of the Democratic Primary and the rest (1/3) by sign-ins at precinct convention caucuses.

This year 2.8 Texans voted in the Democratic Primary (2,874,986) for every registered voter who attended a Democratic Precinct Convention/Caucus. Only 1,000,000 Texans signed-in at Precinct Conventions to select the remaining 1/3 of the delegates.  

That's right.  Misha(Ma’Heo)Houser, a good friend, an amazing democrat and a brilliant artist put forth a breathtaking piece of digital art for Orange County's Artists for Obama.  This was a fundraiser meant to raise money to send local delegates to the convention in Denver.  Both Charlotte and I attended this event Saturday night and the print is even more gorgeous in person.

Fair warning - I like to cuss.

The current block of News headlines at Yahoo's homepage sums up everything for me. Right below the hurricane watch headline sits this one:

Poll: McCain's attack strategy paying dividends

And then right below that one sit this one:

Obama wants Fla. and Mich. delegates to have full voting rights

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

That's the breaking news in the NY Times--Senator Barack Obama wants Michigan and Florida delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Rudy Giuliani is some special kind of stupid. Apparently not tired of having Joe Biden hand him his ass just about every time he speaks, he is now apparently trying to restart his campaign.

The following is a preview of Oregon's delegates who were recently selected to attend the National Convention (excluding state-level delegates whose results are not posted yet).  More information is available by going to: http://restricted.dpo.org/....  Delegates are listed below by District and Candidate whom they support.

Debra Bartoshevich is being removed from the Wisconsin Delegation for DNC Rules Violations by a savvy and quick acting Wisconsin Democratic Party.

The Wisconsin Democratic Party moved Friday to strip a woman of her position as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention after she told a newspaper she would vote for Republican Sen. John McCain for president in November.

State party members voted at their convention Friday night to challenge Debra Bartoshevich's status as a delegate to the Denver convention in late August

There are rules at play here, considering her admission that she will vote for McCain in November.

Those comments prompted Democrats to support a complaint asking the national party's credentials committee to refuse to seat her at the convention. The resolution said Bartoshevich violated a Democratic National Committee rule requiring delegates to support the party's nominee and not any other candidate.

"Party unity is on the agenda for Florida Democrats this weekend in Hollywood. But before gathering to sing Kumbaya, they'll first have some ritual bloodletting and political score-settling to get out of the way."

The Obama campaign wants the changes to reward contributors and loyalists like County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, who endorsed him last summer and campaigned vigorously on his behalf even while almost every elected Democrat in Broward backed Clinton.

"Most of the 211 delegates were elected in caucuses around the state this spring and won't be affected. ".

But 26 Obama delegates and two alternates selected by the state Democratic Party might not get to go to Denver after all.

The move has sparked outrage among some, most loudly from [usual suspect] Jon Ausman, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Tallahassee.

"They are going to destroy 20 to 30 people's dreams," he said. "They are going to be authoritarian, not democratic."

"Obama campaign to change delegates".

Why the word "purge" appears in the title on the flip ...

who say that they are voting for John McCain because of Florida and Michigan.  Think Again...

I have gone to Sen. Clinton's website and sent an email from the entry page, and would just like to encourage others in this community to follow suit.  The email follows after the jump.

Last night on The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart... Clinton zealot and renowned delusional talking head Terry McAuliffe stopped by to rally the troops. What is he rallying for and why would he think that Jon Stewart would give him a pass on it? Because its TERRY MCAULIFFE thats why! The man is campaigning in an alternate reality.

The interview with Jon Stewart is really hilarious and at one point he asks Terry to convince him (a Mets fan) that the NY Mets didn't suffer an historic collapse last year but instead won the World Series.

On the Colbert Report there was an interview of almost equal quality. Stephen interviews George Will who he describes as "one of the intellectual giants of conservatism.... he has less competition than he used to". LOL

Will and Colbert discuss conservatism and how it differs from liberalism. An interesting and entertaining exchange. I actually kind of like George Will even though I disagree with much of his ideology.

I would like to point out that Hillary Clinton did NOT win the popular vote during the Democratic race for a presidential nominee – according to RealPolitics.com.

Barack Obama without IA, NV, ME, WA caucuses and without Michigan, ended up with 33,916 more votes than Hillary Clinton.

Barack Obama with IA, NV, ME, WA caucuses and without Michigan, ended up with 144,138 more votes than Hillary Clinton.

RealPolitics

Tonight we Minnesota Obama supporters are gathering with Barack Obama and his family in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, for what we hope will be a victory celebration as Barack gains enough delegates to be the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States.

I'll be posting live updates from the Xcel--so here's hoping the night is exciting!

So I'm bopping around here and there trying to keep track of just how many superdelegates are endorsing Obama... it's enough of a deluge that various web sources are having trouble keeping up.

Right here on Kos, it's still 23.5 on the FP table (as I write), 22 in one diary, 10 in another.  The Obama website has 12 and 16.5 ON THE SAME PAGE.

All right, so I'm burying the lead.  USA Today has Obama at 2123 delegates -- 5 OVER the finish line.  If they're right... it's over.

Already.