{"id":15466,"date":"2008-05-07T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15466.html"},"modified":"2008-05-07T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T20:30:46","slug":"superdelegates-start-to-make-their-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/superdelegates-start-to-make-their-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Superdelegates start to make their move?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, George Stephanopoulos said<\/a> uncommitted superdelegates supporting Barack Obama “will come three, four, five at a time, and this nomination will be locked up.” We’re still a ways from a “locked up” nomination, but there was some movement on the superdelegate front today, and Obama appears to have a net gain of four<\/a> for the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Today, in the wake of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the Obama campaign is announcing three new superdelegates: Jerry Meek, chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Jeanette Council, a member of the D.N.C. from North Carolina and Inola Henry, a member of the D.N.C. from California. […]<\/p>\n

These endorsements brings the total number of superdelegates to endorse Mr. Obama to 261, according to the campaign’s tally. He is 170 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news wasn’t all bad for Clinton, though. Rep. Heath Shuler had promised to support whichever candidate won his North Carolina district yesterday. Clinton carried the district easily (a 13-point victory), prompting Shuler to back the New York senator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While that would give Obama a net gain of two for the day, Jennifer McClellan, a state rep in Virginia and a DNC member, switched today<\/a> from Clinton to Obama.<\/p>\n

Former Sen. George McGovern’s switch was a fairly big deal, but it did not affect the totals because McGovern isn’t a superdelegate.<\/p>\n

So, where does that leave us, as of now? NBC has Clinton’s superdelegate lead down to 12.5 (272.5 to 260); the Politico also shows Clinton ahead by 12.5 (269.5 to 257); CNN puts the number at 13 (267 to 254); and the 2008 Democratic Convention Watch has Clinton leading by 14.5 (270.5 to 256).
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\nThere are also grumblings on the Hill<\/a>. No superdelegates have switched, but at least one seems to be eyeing the exit sign.<\/p>\n

One of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s (D-N.Y.) congressional backers on Wednesday added to the mounting pressure on the former first lady to consider dropping her bid to become president.<\/p>\n

Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) told The Hill that Clinton should reassess her prospects after losing to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) by 14 points in North Carolina and edging her rival in Indiana in Tuesday\u2019s primaries. <\/p>\n

\u201cI urge her to take the day off and think very seriously about doing what\u2019s best for the country and best for the party,\u201d said Kildee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got straight A\u2019s in math,\u201d added Kildee, implying that Obama\u2019s delegate lead would be impossible to overcome in the few primaries left on the Democratic calendar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Senate, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s (D-N.Y.) most prominent Senate supporters, said Wednesday that she will ask the former first lady to detail her plans for the rest of the Democratic primary. <\/p>\n

\u201cI, as you know, have great fondness and great respect for Sen. Clinton and I\u2019m very loyal to her,\u201d Feinstein said. \u201cHaving said that, I\u2019d like to talk with her and [get] her view on the rest of the race and what the strategy is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, George Stephanopoulos said uncommitted superdelegates supporting Barack Obama “will come three, four, five at a time, and this nomination will be locked up.” We’re still a ways from a “locked up” nomination, but there was some movement on the superdelegate front today, and Obama appears to have a net gain of four for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}