Saturday, May 10, 2008

Obama picks up Utah add-on; OH and MA to name 4 more today

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Utah selected it’s add-on superdelegate last night: Kristi Cumming. We know that Utah Chairman Wayne Holland, an Obama supporter, had previously announced that the add-on would be an Obama supporter, and we have received confirmation from the Utah Democratic Party that Cumming will be supporting Obama.

Obama moves to within 0.5 superdelegate votes of Clinton. Continue Reading...

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Obama-Clinton superdelegate numbers

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I think everyone is aware that since each organization counts superdelegates slightly differently, the point in time when Obama catches Clinton will vary with each count. While we won’t announce the milestone until he catches up in our numbers, the NY Times did the announcement on their front page this morning, and added a nice graph:

Continue Reading...

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Clinton picks up an add-on from Massachusetts

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From a Clinton Press Release:

The Clinton Campaign today announced the support of Massachusetts automatic delegate Arthur Powell, after the Massachusetts State Democratic Committee elected him one if its automatic delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Continue Reading...

Friday, May 09, 2008

Superdelegate Switches

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Here’s the complete list of superdelegate switches from Clinton to Obama:

• May 23 – Rep. Dennis Cardoza (CA)
• May 10 – DNC Kevin Rodriguez (VI)
• May 9 – Rep. Donald Payne (NJ)
• May 7 – DNC Jennifer McClellan (VA)
• May 1 – DNC Joe Andrew (IN)
• Feb 27 – Rep. John Lewis (GA)
• Feb 27 – DNC Senfronia Thompson (TX)
• Feb 20 – DNC Dana Redd (NJ)
• Feb 15 – DNC Sarah Swisher (IA)
• Feb 14 – DNC Christine “Roz” Samuels (NJ)
• Feb 14- Rep. David Scott (GA)

And the first one to switch to Clinton just switched over to Obama earlier this month: Continue Reading...

Friday, May 09, 2008

Representative Peter DeFazio Endorses Obama

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The night’s not over as Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-4) endorses Barack Obama.

Clinton’s superdelegate lead is now down to 6.5 votes. Continue Reading...

Friday, May 09, 2008

Representative Donald Payne (NJ-10) Switches from Clinton to Obama

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For the 9th time a superdelegate has pulled their support from Hillary Clinton and endorsed Barack Obama.

Representative Donald Payne from New Jersey’s 10th District endorsed Hillary Clinton in January saying this: Continue Reading...

Friday, May 09, 2008

Representative Ciro Rodriguez endorses Clinton

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Sen. Clinton started us off this morning with an endorsement by Rep. Chris Carney. Then there were a bunch of endorsements for that other candidate, but Clinton is ending the day (assuming, of course, that this is it for the day!) with another endorsement from Congress: Texas Representative Ciro Rodriguez:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton picked up another endorsement from a Texas Democratic superdelegate for the party’s presidential primary. Continue Reading...

Friday, May 09, 2008

Representative Chris Carney Endorses Clinton. Obama endorsed by DNC John Gage of Maryland

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Clinton leads off the morning with an endorsement: Rep. Chris Carney of PA:

U.S. Rep. Chris Carney noted Friday that Democrats in his northeastern Pennsylvania district supported Clinton by a more than 2-1 margin in the April 22 primary. Carney says, “I will respect their decision.” Continue Reading...