ABC News is reporting that Obama now has the lead in Super delegates

[my3boyz]

At least according to their tallies. Hmmmm

Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too
May 09, 2008 6:19 AM

ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton's support among superdelegates, according to the ABC News delegate estimate.

Sen. Obama, D-Ill., picked up two superdelegates this morning giving him a new metric to tout in addition to his current commanding leads in pledged delegates, popular votes, states won, and money raised.

Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., endorsed Obama. DeFazio was previously uncommitted.

With these endorsements, Obama has the support of 267 superdelegates and Clinton has 265 superdelegates.

Every news organization's superdelegate count is a little different because it is an imperfect science. Since October 2007, the Political Unit has continuously reached out to the nearly 800 superdelegates to determine their candidate preference. We also reach out regularly to the Obama and Clinton campaigns for their superdelegate lists and work to confirm any that they include on their lists.

http://www.abcnews.com/politics

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[ingac70]

1. Oh yeah!

:applause:

[yourguide]

2. That's it....over.

[tekisui]

3. That should bust the dam.

Drip drip to WOOOOOSH!

[bluestateguy]

4. It will take the Clinton News Network (CNN) awhile to acknowledge this

I always notice how CNN's delegate tally always adds delegates for Obama last among all the networks.

[tekisui]

5. Like in August?

[workinclasszero]

6. Game. Set. Match!!! ***ITS OVER***

Obama is going to be a GREAT President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:party:

[rucky]

7. WTG, Faz!

VP material, IMHO

[kevinbgoode]

8. So Obama needs 168 more delegates

and Clinton needs 335. . .

[Zachstar]

9. Can anyone post alt sources for this?

[WillyT]

11. Not Quite Alternative Sourcing, But...

The article did post the different tallies of other major news organizations.

<snip>

Below are the superdelegate tallies, as of this morning, from other news organizations:

ABC
OBAMA 267
CLINTON 265

CBS
CLINTON 271
OBAMA 261

CNN
CLINTON 268
OBAMA 258

NBC
CLINTON 274
OBAMA 260

AP
CLINTON 271
OBAMA 256

New York Times
CLINTON 263
OBAMA 258

Politico
CLINTON 268.5
OBAMA 260

Washington Post (uses AP statistics)
CLINTON 271
OBAMA 256

<snip>

Link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-now-takes.html

:shrug:

[NJmaverick]

10. The SDs were her last hope and now that door is shutting

maybe, just maybe, she will get the hint and bow our gracefully.

[jasmine621]

12. OK, so if the game is over, why worry about Hillary continuing to campaign?

She really is not "destroying" the party as some allege. She is saying very positive things about Obama in public and if you think Obama can just simply ignore Hillary supporters in the GE, you are sadly mistaken. The healing must begin from Obama supporters themselves. But I fear that if many of them behave the way many of them do here at DU, they will alienate more voters than win them over and Obama will suffer as a result.

[MindMatter]

14. Other than teh race baiting and the other divisive rhetoric

There is no problem at all.

Put it another way, do we want to win West Virginia in November?

If so, she should either start selling that idea or shut the fuck up.

[donheld]

16. Obama has no intention of ignoring Hillary's supporters. Anytime

He will reach out to them in a big way. Count on it.

[MindMatter]

13. "Peak Clinton" was 269

We are on the backside of the Clinton curve now.

[Bucky]

15. With all du respect...

Superdelegates don't count!

[WeDidIt]

17. ABC News is WRONG

Only DemConWatch has it right. Everybody else is only guessing.

DemConWatch only counts an endorsement when the endorser makes it official. They link to the endorsement for each and every super delegate tehy count.

Only put your trust in DemConWatch. Everybody else putting out SD numbers is a hack.

[nomorewhopper]

18. its over