Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Greetings from North Carolina

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Hello friends and neighbors! Mr. Super here posting from the ground in North Carolina today. Lots of exciting news out here and in Indiana as well. I’ll offer the early insights that I have so far:

North Carolina employs an early vote period which allows voters to cast ballots at polling places two weeks in advance of an election. This year voters cast nearly half of a million ballots during that period, which is a record for this state, already surpassing the early vote totals from general elections in 2004 and 2006. Continue Reading...

Sunday, May 04, 2008

RBC Member predicts Florida will be seated at 50%

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Garry Shay, superdelegate from California and member of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee took part in a panel at the annual California Democratic Council Convention in Fresno. From the California Progress Report, Shay had a lot to say. First, on Florida:

What I anticipate will happen is that—and I have not received any communications from anybody, this is just my own thoughts on the matter—that the superdelegates will likely be seated from both states. That Florida will be seated with a half delegate for each pledged delegate based upon the January results. The concept there being that there must be some punishment for violating the rules, and at the same time, excluding those two states is very difficult. Continue Reading...

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Guam replacement DNC member likely Uncommitted

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We noted last Monday that the replacement for resigning Guam DNC member Robert Underwood would be an Obama supporter:

Guam Democratic Party Chairman Tony Charfauros yesterday said he is about to appoint either Sen. Benjamin Cruz or attorney Mike Phillips to a vacant superdelegate position — the party’s “committee man” position. Cruz and Philips are both Obama supporters. Continue Reading...

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Saturday updates

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We’re running a little short-staffed today, so we’ll do quick updates here. Numbers, tables and other pages may not be updated until later.

• Former state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum, an Obama supporter, has been selected as the add-on from South Carolina.

• Maryland has chosen former Gov. Parris N. Glendening and former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend as its add-ons. Townsend is a Clinton supporter, and Glendening is backing Obama. – Baltimore Sun.

• New Mexico State Party Chair Brian S. Colón endorses Obama.

• Guam pledged delegates split 2-2.

• Louisiana has chosen New Orleans Ray Nagin as its add-on superdelegate. Nagin is uncommitted.- WXVT

Delegate Updates: Obama +5, Clinton +3 Continue Reading...

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Meet your newest Democratic congressman (and superdelegate)

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In a major win by Democrats deep in the south, Don Cazayoux won the Special Election in LA-6, becoming the newest Democrat in Congress, and our 795th Superdelegate!

Also, there are now 4,048 delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and it takes 2,024.5 delegates to get the nomination. Continue Reading...

Friday, May 02, 2008

Superdelegate Comments

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In order to speed up the superdelegate list and relieve our commenters from the annoying error message that blogger can’t seem to fix we’ve decided to make a change with superdelegate comments.

Please post all superdelegate comments here. As always… only comment on new or rumored superdelegate endorsements. All other comments should be in a relevant comment or in our Open Thread. Continue Reading...