Polls show her with a commanding lead in high-delegate states including Texas, Georgia and Virginia, as well as in several other Southern states.
"Her position has to be very uncomfortable," said one high-level delegate, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A hint at the number came last year when a high-level delegate to the National People's Congress publicly estimated that it was "nearly 10,000". In 2004, Amnesty International documented at least 3,400 executions -- out of 3,797 worldwide that year -- but cautioned that China's number was probably far higher.
And so it went with the conspicuous absence of any high level delegate from the United States.
But rather than send a high level delegate, rather than offer reparations, rather than extend our hand in friendship to the new Salvadoran administration, the United States is actually trying to bully the Salvadorans.
Tell me you've seen CNN's John King with his new toy -- the touchy, high-tech delegate counting map that he relishes like a teenager with a new X-Box on Christmas morning.
But, I also was a peer educator in my community, a high-performing delegate in a statewide mock legislative program (at the time I was coincidentally drafting a joint proposal to end felon disenfranchisement), and perhaps most importantly, a teenager without a criminal record - up until that point.
Litva [ 39] suggests that in the health sector, often stakes are too high to delegate authority to the public, and more so the public may not care.
High-fiving delegates evidently fosters little risk of violence.
Several high-ranking delegates gathered about the teleprinter.
