"Say, Hillary, do you know of any hotels I can get by the hour down in D.C.?"Photo: Getty Images
Paterson was awarded superdelegate status by dint of his membership in the Democratic National Party. (Spitzer only scored it when he became governor.) If Paterson resigns from the DNC, voilà: His original superdelegate spot opens back up. According to Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the DNC, party chairman Howard Dean would select this new superdelegate. Dean, to continue this highly hypothetical line of thinking, could appoint someone he knows to be a Clinton supporter in order to maintain the pre-Spitzergate balance and avoid accusations of meddling or favoritism. How likely is this? Not very. U.S. congressman Gregory Meeks, of Queens, for instance, also has dual superdelegate status (without, apparently, feeling overwhelmed), and there's no guarantee that Dean would choose another Clinton supporter. “I don’t see why [Paterson] would” resign, LaVera told us. —Dan Amira
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