Senator Hillary Clinton is backstage waiting to be announced to go onstage at an event at Esperanza Academy Charter High School in Philadephia, PA.
So how will it end? No one really knows. Ever since a small group of Democratic operatives enshrined the proportional allocation of primary delegates in its party rules 20 years ago, the possibility of a months-long death march to the convention has both reflected the Democrats' proudest egalitarian instinct and hidden the germ of their worst nightmare. That latter possibility has now arrived. There is no road map for where the Democrats are going ; there aren't even many roads. The candidates and their aides have only a dim grasp of how the endgame will unfold, though...
