Obama picks up Superdelegate #237: Former DNC Chair Paul Kirk

[tekisui]

Some party leaders, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are talking about putting pressure on the undecided superdelegates to make up their minds after the primaries are over – or, at the latest, by the end of June, the deadline Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean suggested on Meet the Press Sunday.

Other superdelegates, however, are also focusing on the tone of the race rather than the length of it. Paul G. Kirk Jr., who served as DNC chairman in the 1980s and says he is supporting Obama this year, wrote an open letter to superdelegates in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a few weeks ago urging them to speak up – not to take sides, but to stop the attacks.

“The thing that’s the most damaging is if the candidates continue to smear each other and leave scars and burns that Sen. McCain and the Republicans can pick up on in November,” Kirk told me last week. “The superdelegates can collectively say, ‘Knock it off.’”

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/beyond/2008/04/collateral-damage.html

[thunder rising]

1. "The thing that’s the most damaging..." SDs are finally catching on. Hillary scortched earth

and smear campaigns are the old politics she grew up in.

[tekisui]

2. Hillary's best case scenario is she ends voting season with

1548 PD's: IF she lost only NC, won big in WV, KY, PR and split OR, SD and IN.

She will need AT LEAST 457 SD's. She has 258, as of now.

She will need AT LEAST 219 more to reach 2025.

Of the 299 SD's left, 64 are non-arbitrary add-ons, leaving 235 in the SD pool.

Can she make an argument to pull 219 of 235 her way?

[FrenchieCat]

3. Only if she drugs them first!

[livingmadness]

4. Is this on top of the two yesterday?

Or one of them? Heck, I used to note each and every one, but I'm losing count!

[tekisui]

5. This one was from yesterday, I didn't see it go up here, though.

And, it wasn't added to DCW until this morning.

4-21-08 - Added DNC Enid Goubeaux (OH) for Obama
4-23-08 Added Gov. Brad Henry (OK) for Obama.
- Added Rep. John Tanner (TN) for Clinton
- Added DNC Audra Ostergard (NE) for Obama
4-24-08 - Added Rep. David Wu (OR) for Obama
4-26-08 - Added Kathy Sullivan (NH)# new NH add-on, for Clinton. Added DNC Charlene Fernandez (AZ) new AZ state vice-chair, for Obama.
4-28-08 - Added Sen. Jeff Bingaman (NM) , Fmr. DNC Chairman Paul Kirk (MA) for Obama.

Clinton picked up Easley from NC, it will be added when official.

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegate-list.html

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

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