While at first glance you'd think that such a scenario would favor the Clinton machine, the reality is that her institutional support within the party has erroded in the past few weeks, both because of Obama's victories and some of the nastiness that her and Bill have been throwing out there.

If Obama is otherwise doing well and she tries takes victory away from him with superdelegates, or were she to engage in a protracted battle to have Michigan and Florida seated at the convention, I suspect it would only turn more Democrats against her.