Rep. Brad Miller has agreed to back the Illinois Senator… Miller made his decision after meeting with Obama in Washington today. “Senator Obama understands that he has the chance not just to win the election this year, but to be a great president,” Miller wrote in his announcement. So that means Obama leads in post [...]

She lost Virginia DNC member Jennifer McClellan but gained Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana. So that means Obama leads in post Pennsylvania pickups 27 to 12.5, and the overall super totals are Clinton 273.5 and Obama 260. I have a feeling now that if he gets +14 on her before West Virginia or Kentucky, that [...]

Sorry folks, I misread something in a story earlier after a commenter gave me a heads up, but the AP makes a point that McGovern IS NOT a superdelegate, so Obama only added 3 superdelegates today and Hillary didn’t lose one. From the AP: “Hillary, of course, will make the decision as to if and [...]

(NOTE: McGovern IS NOT a superdelegate. Changes reflected.) Along with George McGovern, who I didn’t realize was a superdelegate until somebody reminded me in the comments (thank you!), Obama grabbed two more beyond the one I reported earlier. They are Jerry Meek, chairman of the NC Dem Party, and Inola Henry, a DNC member from [...]

Post PA, this puts the pickup race at 24 to 12.5. in favor of Obama. First Clinton… U.S. Rep. Health Shuler confirmed he is pledging his support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to a spokesman. Shuler, who had been an unpledged delegate, had said he would back the candidate who carried his 11th [...]

This is amazing. They’ve literally changed the total needed to win. So anybody who comes to her “Delegate Hub” website will think that 2,208 is what Obama has to get, not 2,025. Here’s a screenshot, with the delegate part highlighted… Again, there’s NO mention of the race to reach 2,025 delegates. Why? Because they know [...]

So with Kalyn Free’s endorsement earlier today, that makes 3 for the day. And of note, these supers said they were going to remain neutral, but apparently something changed. And there could be more today too… The chairman and vice-chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party are throwing their support behind Sen. Barack Obama on the [...]

The New York Times has a delegate scorecard thingamajig and I’m going to play out a few scenarios here. First, let’s say Hillary and Obama split the remaining pledged delegates. What % of the supers would she need? Think 73% is possible? If so, I have a bridge you might be interested in buying… Okay, [...]

TPM says this time it’s Kalyn Free, a member of the DNC from Oklahoma. That puts the totals at 258 supers for Obama and 276 for Hill. Also, I made a mistake of not adding former DNC Chair Joe Andrew’s name to the list of Hillary losses. I had thought he merely supported Hillary before [...]

I’m with Josh Marshall. The argument behind creating the superdelegates in the first place was merely an extension of the political boss system that determined state primary winners by who had the most power and that tradition has absolutely no place in modern politics. Some history… Coming out of the 1970s, the Democratic party establishment [...]

I have serious doubts she would use the following “nuclear option” because it would ensure that Obama’s supporters would stay home. There are just too many landmines. Still…there do seem to be whispers of a plan… Hillary Clinton’s campaign has a secret weapon to build its delegate count, but her top strategists say privately that [...]

Jaime Paulino ran as an Obama supporter, so this isn’t a surprise, but any superdelegate pickup that happens at the same time Hillary loses one is significant. And why did she lose one? The territory also has five superdelegates. Voters picked two, electing uncommitted Pilar Lujan party chairman and Jaime Paulino vice chairman. Paulino ran [...]

Wow. The final totals are Obama – 2,264, Clinton – 2,257. They’ll split the pledged delegates 2 to 2. And about those superdelegates I mentioned earlier, the Obama supporter won today. Here’s the AP with more about how the 5 supers could break out… Voters picked two of the superdelegates, electing uncommitted Pilar Lujan party [...]

It appears as if Guam is actually voting for superdelegates today too. From CNN: Also on the ballot Saturday was the race for chairman and vice chairman of the U.S. territory’s Democratic Party. The winners of that race will serve as superdelegates. According to the election official, the slate of Pilar Lujan and Jaime Paulino [...]

Post Pennsylvania, the pickup totals are now Obama 19, Clinton 13. TPM has the details… In New Mexico, where Hillary Clinton very narrowly won the party-run primary on Super Tuesday, state party chair Brian Colón has endorsed Barack Obama. In South Carolina, former state superintendent Inez Tenenbaum, an Obama supporter, won the add-on slot in [...]

From Politico: A Texas DNC member, Jaime A. Gonzalez Jr., is coming out for Clinton, a campaign source says. The move by Gonzalez, a trial lawyer, gives her a net gain on the day. ALSO: He’s on Rules & Bylaws, which could be handy in a fight over Florida and Michigan. I didn’t hear about [...]

Another former DNC chair lines up. From The Page: Chicago, IL – Today, Former Democratic National Committee Chair and Massachusetts supderdelegate Paul G. Kirk, Jr. endorsed Barack Obama. The endorsement brings the total number of superdelegates to endorse Barack Obama to 253. Senator Obama is 279 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination. This puts [...]

The post-PA pickup tally is now 15 to 11, and that makes 5 to 5 for today. From TPM: Hillary just picked up four new super-dels — so-called “add ons” that were selected by the New York state party today. The four, according to her campaign, are: Andrew Cuomo, Thomas DiNapoli, C. Virginia Field and [...]

No sooner do I write about Hillary picking up a superdelegate and pulling closer to Obama, and now he just added 3 more (in addition to the Joe Andrew, the former DNC Chair). So the post-PA pickup tally is now 14-7. From Sun Times: WASHINGTON–When the Democratic Party of Illinois meet next week to finish [...]

This time from Connecticut: John Olsen, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO and a super-delegate, is expected to announce Thursday his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton. His announcement follows a commitment to Clinton by Bill George, the president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, who also is a super-delegate. So that’s 10 to 7 in Obama’s favor post-PA [...]