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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Don't Count The Supers

By Matthew Yglesias

Feb 9 2008, 4:14 PM ET Comment

Yesterday, Chris Bowers explained why it doesn't make sense to start tallying up how many superdelegates won candidate or another "has." It's a good post, but to boil it down to a sentence: These are unpledged delegates and they're allowed to change their minds.

I would also, however, note another factor -- very few people know who the superdelegates are. Indeed, I heard an anecdote the other day about a politician who was wondering whether or not she was a superdelegate. The person who related the anecdote to me didn't know either. Well, I knew that she was, in fact, a superdelegate but I understand the rules -- but at this point in time the rules are so poorly understood that some superdelegates don't realize they're superdelegates.

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