Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, the Dems’ 1972 presidential nominee, this morning became the first prominent Clinton supporter to urge her to drop out<\/a> of the race. McGovern added that he will switch his endorsement to Obama.<\/p>\n * Estimates vary, but it appears Obama’s net gain among pledged delegates last night was about 15<\/a>, increasing his already large lead.<\/p>\n * I haven’t heard of any new superdelegate announcements this morning, but yesterday, Jeanette Council, a county commissioner in North Carolina, threw her support to Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n * AmericaBlog reported<\/a> last night that retired Gen. Wesley Clark, another high-profile Clinton backer, “called Hillary tonight to tell her it’s over.” [Update<\/i>: Clark’s office denies<\/a> that this call happened.)<\/p>\n * Hoping to find some good news in yesterday’s North Carolina primary, chief Clinton strategist Geoff Garin emphasized this morning Clinton’s success with white people<\/a>: “Garin argued that the North Carolina contest, which Obama won by 14 points, represented ‘progress’ for Hillary because she did better among white voters there than she did in Virginia. ‘When we began in North Carolina,’ Garin said, ‘our internal polling and in much of the public polling we were running exactly even with white voters.'” * John McCain will obviously be the GOP nominee, but in yesterday’s perfunctory primaries, about a fourth of Republicans still voted for someone else<\/a>.<\/p>\n * While the voting was still going on yesterday, the Obama campaign indicated that it has reached 1.5 million individual donors<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Hotline<\/a>: “John McCain announced [yesterday] the members of his campaign’s Justice Advisory Committee. Translation — The very folks who would help a President McCain select nominees to the SUPCO and federal courts. Heading up the effort are Theodore B. Olson, former Solicitor General of the United States, and KS Senator Sam Brownback.”<\/p>\n * Obama will be in DC tomorrow for a series of meetings with uncommitted superdelegates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n* Did Rush Limbaugh have any real influence on the results in yesterday’s primaries? MSNBC took a closer look and concluded he did not<\/a>.<\/p>\n