Normally, most of us in the Lower 48 wouldn't really care too much about the fact that the sitting Governor of Puerto Rico was charged Thursday with 19 counts of wrongdoing in a campaign finance investigation.
Maybe it was the irony involved in that Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila was elected as an anti-corruption reform candidate? Nope.
The interesting part is that as Governor of Puerto Rico, Acevedo is a superdelegate to the Democratic convention in August.
Even juicier, he's a superdelegate pledged to Barack Obama!
Maybe this is nothing but the Political Gods moving to offset the loss of Clinton superdelegate, the now former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who had to bow out after he found to have been paying big cash for some NY Ladies.
It's a crazy time for superdelegates - especially the ones who remain officially on the fence in the race between Obama and Clinton.
It will be great in a few months to hear all the stories of how the two campaigns dangled this and that in front of the noses of some of these undecideds, in a quest to get them to commit.
In the meantime, you have to wonder what is going through the minds of the supers as they watch Obama and Hillary duke it out on a daily basis.
"They've got a tough choice," says political columnist Michael Barone.
"They can either reject the first African American with a serious chance to be elected President, or reject the first woman with a serious chance to be elected President," Barone said.
"That's why you're having trouble reaching them on the phone," Barone added with a wry smile at a recent forum at the American Enterprise Institute.
I'm sort of reminded of a great scenario written by Hunter S. Thompson about the 1972 Democratic convention (when people were talking about the possibility of a brokered convention) and how one delegate comes to Miami Beach uncommitted, but ends up a broken pawn in the effort to consolidate a majority.
You know there's some great behind-the-scenes stuff going on. Some of it has to start leaking out sooner or later.
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