Another Superdelegate to Obama - from Montana

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/us/politics/07caucus.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

The hill that Hillary Rodham Clinton must climb to beat Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination will grow a little steeper on Monday, as it has most days lately.

Margaret Campbell, a Montana state legislator, plans to declare her support for Senator Obama, of Illinois. She becomes the 69th superdelegate he has picked up since the Feb. 5 coast-to-coast string of primary elections and caucus votes.

In the same period, Senator Clinton, of New York, has seen a net loss of two superdelegates, according to figures from the Obama campaign that Clinton aides do not dispute. That erosion may dim Mrs. Clinton’s remaining hopes even more than internal campaign turmoil, which led to the ouster on Sunday of the campaign’s chief strategist, Mark Penn.

Trailing by more than 160 pledged delegates — those chosen in state primaries or caucuses — Mrs. Clinton has counted on superdelegates to help her overtake Mr. Obama with a late surge before the party’s convention in August. The party’s rules for proportional allocation make it highly difficult for her to erase Mr. Obama’s pledged delegate lead, even if she sweeps the final 10 contests.

More at the link.

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1. It's ironic that per the article, Wasserman Schultz claimed

And “all of this delegate stuff is artificial,”

Ummm... since when? The primary is decided by delegates. :crazy:

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2. Wasserman Schultz pinned her political aspirations to the wrong candidate ...

... and is caught in no-man's land. Ensign on the HMS Clintanic.

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5. That's worthy of a Robert Mugabe quote

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3. So, I think this makes the SD gap only 23 now?? Should be about even by PA.

:kick:

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4. Some have suggested that there might be a trickle of enough

to make it equal by the time of the PA election. Not sure if that will be the case, but even if the trickle does comes close to doing that, it helps to start wrapping this thing up. There are still a bunch of "big name" fence-sitters in states that have voted on or since Super Tuesday (e.g., Biden, Pelosi, Akaka). There are also a few Clinton SDs who recently floated the idea of switching if they felt the winds were really changing beyond their own thresholds.

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6. Cool. n/t