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NATEPERKINS.TV: Black Evangelicals Grassroot Hit The Streets of Atlanta's For Barack Obama

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NATEPERKINS.TV: Unite for Change Team TRAINING TAPE FOR OBAMA (ONLINE) GRASSROOT

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Clinton Offered Fundraiser to SD Dem. Party in Exchange for Two Superdelegates

Todd Epp — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:11 EDT

Wow.

That's about all I can say. In a heated exchange at tonight's S.D. Democratic Executive Board meeting in Oacoma, Hillary Clinton delegate Malcolm Chapman said--and State Chair Jack Billion confirmed--that the Clinton campaign offered a major fundraiser to the state party in exchange for two superdelegate votes.

Chapman noted that he had almost "cut the deal" with the Clinton campaign. Billion said the price was "too high." He also said non-office holding superdelegates like him had to give a lot of consideration to Sen. Tom Daschle's, Sen. Tim Johnson's, and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's position on the race as they are major financial benefactors to the local party.

I'll post more as I learn more.

(Originally posted on SD Watch at http://www.southdakotawatch.net)

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Middle Schooler for Obama — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:42:54 EDT

He's clinched the nomination! Hillary hasn't dropped out but she's just hoping the superdelegates switch. Not much chance, though. Usually, once you have your mind set, it's hard to change your mind. McCain has no chance, though. America has voted for change in the primaries, and it will vote for change in the general election. McCain will get nailed for his Iraq war stance and his Keating Five scandal.

LA has lame supers

Virginia S. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:24:00 EDT

As an aside, I forgot to post this, but my state has the lamest superdelegates. Hillary got 2 yesterday, where were they from? Louisiana. A state Barack won by almost 20%. Someone needs to vote them out of office.

Obama '08!

Superdelegates Charge In

Nickie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:33:25 EDT

I've been watching CNN and MSNBC. Flipping between one news station to another and over the last five minutes Obama went from 40 needed to clinch the nomination to 35. Let the stampede begin!

YES WE CAN!!!!!

Obama 08

"C-DAY" Today: Culmination of a LONG, LONG HAUL

1 "Bitter" Yvonne "Hussein" Raphael from California, a "Typical" American — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:36:05 EDT

To say that the reaction of HRC being channeled through Harold Ickes at the May 31 Rules meeting was mind-boggling to me is an understatement. He looked like a two-year old who had been told that he can't have ice cream for breakfast. The problem is that he's not two. Mrs. C's image in the eyes of the remaining uncommited superdelegates, IMHO, was not helped by that display of pique. Hillary Clinton is pitching a fit about FOUR Michigan delegates being, as Harold put it, "taken" from her and "given" to Senator Obama!!!! OH PLEASE!

That said, I am seriously praying for a massive turnout and voter support today of Barack in South Dakota (which last year tried unsucessfully to pass a law to oppose Roe v. Wade), and I am confident of a fantastic victory in Montana. GO South D.!!! You GO MONTANA!!! MUCH LOVE TO ALL OF YA!!!

Endgame

Michael Nordine — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:24:51 EDT

I'm down with the FL/MI compromise. Everything came out for the best, I think. This should be over with very soon; I just read that most of the uncommitted senators are going to endorse Obama by the end of this week. Hillary is still pressing on with the pathetic, incorrect assertion that she's ahead in the popular vote, but now she's also saying that superdelegates can change their minds before the convention; I guess she hasn't noticed that the only ones who have done so have defected from her camp to Obama's. I wonder if she's really so dense as to actually believe that anyone is going to endorse her now that it's so obviously done with to everybody but her.

New Superdelegate for Obama

Carole@www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:56:53 EDT

Barack Obama only needs 65 delegates to win the nomination for President. His new delegate total is 2,053.

Nevada superdelegate Yvonne Gates endorsed Obama yesterday. She said she was waiting until the Rules committee made its decision. "I have been admiring, just from afar, looking at the way they run the campaign. I have been pretty impressed with this operation," she said.

Gates, a member of the DNC Rules Committee, supports the DNC decision on seating Michigan and Florida made yesterday. Gates was appointed to the DNC by former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe, now Clinton's campaign chair. Gates doesn't view supporting Obama as disloyal; she said, "My goal is to win the election against the Republican in the general election. I've been waiting for this for eight years."

Gates resigned from the Las Vegas county commission last year, under allegations that she misuesed campaign contributions, but has not been charged with a crime. Nevada still has four uncommitted superdelegates, including Sen. Harry Reid. (AP story here)

Carole

Remaining Supers!

Christopher Ginac — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:57:49 EDT

This is a complied list of remaining supers. I found this on the hillaryclinton.com site. So why don't we share the same information here? Contact the one's in your state. Actually if you feel up to it write to all of them!

Obama "Better with Working Class" Than Gore & Kerry

Deborah Simmel — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:59:15 EDT

Don't let the pundits get you down. Mark Mellman, in the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, reports today that Obama is doing better with the "working class" electorate than either Al Gore or John Kerry was at this same point in those elections.

Read this, and take it to the superdelegates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/opinion/29mellman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

How Many to Go? 46!

Carole@www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:48:00 EDT

Barack Obama got support from 3 more superdelegates:

1 Chair of the Colorado Democratic Party Pat Waak
2 Chair of the Oregon Democratic Party Meredith Wood Smith
3 Guam Senator and DNC member Ben C. Pangelinan

Their reasons?

Waak:
* 60% of votes at the Colorado State Democratic Convention
* "visionary, uplifting leadership shown during this long campaign."
* he will defeat John McCain in November

Wood Smith:
* majority of the votes in the Oregon
* As a 65-year-old woman, I have a visceral understanding of the fight for gender equality.

Pangelinan:
"Trust in Senator Obama's commitment to turning the promises on the issues that
are important to the people of Guam, into progress for the people of Guam."

A call to other superdelegates:

                "The time has come to step forward."
                                                                          Waak

                "All of us should come together to elect Sen. Barack Obama"
                                                                                                     Wood Smith

                "The best candidate to deliver on the promise that is America, for all of America."
Pangelinan

320.5           Number of superdelegates endorsing Obama for President

46                     Number of delegates needed for Obama to secure the nomination

Carole

Numbers Don't Lie

J.W. — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:23:49 EDT

So, I know I’ve been a little quiet lately, but for good reason. Numbers speak for themselves.

Today, Barack picked up two superdelegates, bringing his lead to 27 at 308 to 281. He’s now won 33 of 50 states, a clear majority. He continues to lead the popular vote by 240,000 votes. And last night, by winning Oregon, he obtained a majority of the elected delegates, even if you count Florida and Michigan.

Now, all he needs is 60 delegates to achieve the magic number of 2,025 total delegates. In contrast, Hillary Clinton needs 243 total delegates to achieve the magic number. There are only 86 elected delegates left in the remaining primary elections. That means that Hillary would have to win 157, or 76%, of the remaining 206 uncommitted superdelegates.

Men lie. Women lie. But numbers don’t.

Peep the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f0PJYue72Gg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MGfzeYWZYiU

Writing the Superdelegates

Dana A — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:00:24 EDT

http://www.lobbydelegates.com/Default.aspx
^ This is an easy site that will help you format letters to your states delegates urging them to vote for Obama at the convention. It's great if you're like me and are pressed for time, everything is formatted for you with a slightly obnoxious banner at the top of the page, each one specifically addressed to the superdels.
And if anyone is interested (you should be!) there is a link in my profile to a group I joined, for people interested in writing the superdelegates of NJ. There are a lot of groups for different states with the same goal.
Let them know, especially if you're in a state where Clinton won, that we want Obama, and urge them to pick the candidate that REALLY has the popular vote nationwide.
-Dana

President Carter Knows

ObamaBob NSB — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:00:47 EDT

Carter sees superdelegates prompting Clinton to quit

Sun May 25, 7:06 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday he expects Democratic superdelegates to reveal their choice for presidential nominee soon after the final primary in June and that Hillary Clinton will then have to quit the race.

In an interview with Sky News, Carter said he did not think Clinton was achieving anything by staying in the fight.

"I think not. But of course she has the perfect right to do so," he said while attending a literary festival in Britain.

"I'm a superdelegate ... I think a lot of the superdelegates will make a decision quite, announced quite rapidly, after the final primary on June 3," he told Sky News.

"I have not yet announced publicly, but I think at that point it will be time for her to give it up," Carter said.

Here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080525/pl_nm/usa_politics_carter_dc;_ylt=AgMIQkUTDzEKNkbaMp6hPTBsnwcF

YES WE CAN!!

Hillary's Robert Kennedy Comments. Contact the Superdelegates!

jgabriel — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:22:32 EDT

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC had a stinging rebuke for Hillary Clinton the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbgELgiBQM

It looks like Barack is less than 56 delegates away from claiming the nomination outright. I hope that we can bring the party together in time to defeat John McCain. Who do you think would be the best choice of VP for Barack? I'm thinking someone from the Appalachian region.

Puerto Rico is June 1, followed by the end of the primary season June 3 with Montana and South Dakota. Even more important, though, is May 31, when the Rules & Bylaws Committee meets to consider Florida/Michigan.

The Huffington Post has a listing of uncommitted superdelegates whom you can contact. Let's try to get as many of these as possible. The sooner we get their endorsements the sooner we can take on the Republicans full force.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/stop-yelling-at-hillary-t_b_103135.html

Yes We Can! Si Se Puede!

Links of the Week 25 May 2008

DNMP — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:25:49 EDT

Original Post Link: http://sentimentsofkornbread.blogspot.com/2008/05/links-of-week-25-may-2008.html

Top Five
In no particular order
Young Filmmakers Explore America's Cultural Identity: http://www.baystatebanner.com/issues/2008/05/15/arts/arts05150841.htm

Britain's Got Talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquMEmrm4Fk
Something light to make you smile and dance.

Republicans and Our Enemies: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121150000249615875.html
An Op-Ed by Joe Biden, Jr. the Senior Senator for Delaware.

Giant 'telescope' links London, New York: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/22/scope.project/index.html
Someone dug a hole to the other side of the world. I still remember when I tried to dig to China when I was little.

Cindy McCain in Vogue: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/22/am.cindy.mccain.vogue.cnn
I have said before and I will say again I like Cindy McCain and I support her decision not to release her tax returns, though it looks like she has released her 2006 returns.

Politics
Obama: Don't fund independent groups: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10315.html

Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million from Clinton Donor: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/19/superdelegates-turned-dow_n_102450.html

Obama Draws Record Crowd in Oregon: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/obama-draws-record-crowd-in-oregon/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Obama's oldest daughter is getting tall.

Talking Points Memo - Hillary's Concession Speech Planned...Early Draft Leaked: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/hillarys-concession-speech-pla.php
This post is a call for Democratic Party Unity.

Convention Do's and Don'ts House Ethics Committee Outlines Limits on Freebies: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002881273

Supporter Says Clinton Getting Desperate: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Democrats and Our Enemies: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121132806884008847.html?mod=Commentary-US
An Op-Ed by Joe Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut.

International
Myanmar to Grant Entry to Medical Teams from Asian Group: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=214900036

Business/Economy
SUVs plunge toward 'endangered' list: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/23/dumping.suvs/index.html

Colorado Superdelegates

Denise — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:27:04 EDT

I was expecting that the remaining Colorado Superdelgates would come out on one side or the other after the results of the state convention came out.

What are they waiting for? The state has spoken en-mass, now it is time for them to step up!

The Next Sound You Hear

SRG_Legal — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:52:54 EDT

The state I entered can only be described as a trance that was reminiscent of the day the apostle Peter sat on the rooftop of Cornelius’ home, awaiting the evening meal. A cloak opened up to him, filled with non-kosher animals of all kind. God told Peter to take his pick, kill and eat any of them. He refused, even after being made this offer three times. Finally, the Lord said to him, Peter, do not call what I have called clean, unclean. The end. Or was it the beginning?

I stared out the window, fully believing it was all just a dream—but it wasn’t the first time I had entered such a trance-like state while fully awakened. No, I was not under hypnosis; no one else was in the room, but there I stood in the middle of my children’s bedroom floor only a couple of hours after I had gotten them off to school.

I was sweeping and mopping and dusting, part of my usual daily ritual, when I looked out the window and could have sworn I saw a piece of the sky outside the window roll back, like a theater curtain when the play is about to start. For a brief moment in my life, I glanced, literally, at eternity and into a place where God’s love was innumerable, incalculable, and not able to be measured. That’s when I heard the words, “Do not place limits on me.” It would be only a few weeks later that Sis Blanchard, wife of the then-president of CB&T Bancshares and Total Systems, would come to my home and speak a word of prophecy to me.

“Thus saith the Lord that the gift love you carry inside is a gift from Him. It has no limitations and no borders on it. Yea, it is as endless as the surface of the sea, where the tide rolls in and rolls out, and just as the water carries millions of tiny granules of sand into the ocean and reshapes its surface, so is the love of God that abides in your heart. It will not be an overnight healing, but a gradual one…little by little, the love of God will show itself forth in you, and yea not in you only, but in everything and everyone you touch. For His love is not just for you, but for the whole world and all that is within it.”

That was more than 20 years ago. The manifestation thereof remains a mystery to me to this day. What I’ve beheld instead is a discomforting sour note, and mourning and weeping like never before—as if things that were supposed to go forward from there have done nothing more than go backward. Everything I set my hand to turned to dust.

Every door I opened swung back shut in my face, and every door I could peek through to see what was there had nothing on the other side that I was the least bit interested in. It was a struggle just to remember that at one point, as my life was on the verge of being sucked out of my very soul, Psalm 91 was the Word of God in which I took refuge.

It was a Psalm that not only spoke of dwelling and abiding, but of shelters, shadows, refuges, fortresses, and about trusting in God. I found trust a hard thing to do, but then I recalled that it wasn’t my own faithfulness on which I relied, it was His.

His faithfulness is the feathers (pinions) lining the nest, the wings hovering over, and the shield and bulwark behind which we all stand. If we have ever had a nagging notion that nothing we do is ever good enough, it’s because it isn’t. All have sinned and fallen short, no one has a cause or a justification for bragging rights. No one.

What is the answer, we continue to ask. What do we do? What is our purpose in life? How do we make the world a better place than the one in which we have lived? Where do we go from here?

The late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself asked that question about 40-plus years ago. Where indeed? Chaos? Community? It was one of the last of things that he would have to say about the war on Vietnam, as well as many other issues that were America’s mistakes, and here we are in the New Millennium, having learned nothing. from his words and nothing from the experience. We are taught, and it has become manifest, that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. It is not only black Americans who see the resurfacing devaluation of black people repeated from days long ago that should have been dead, but America itself has come around to a complete revolution and back to the undisputable 1960s and 1970s all over again.

God promised the Hebrews after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness that they would not enter a place of rest due to unfaithfulness, and right here in America, its African-American, black, and colored citizens, 40 years after the death of Dr. King, have yet to enter and abide in that place of rest. W.E.B. Du Bois talked about the Color Line of 150 years ago, and that Color Line, though moved up and redrawn, has not been thoroughly disintegrated or demolished.

Not long ago, a saying was passed around, “Black folk are the only people in this nation without a place to call home. We aren’t from Africa, and we aren’t fully Americans either.” Yes, the Constitution does say that anyone born in the United States of America is considered a full-fledged American with all the rights and privileges accorded hereof, but how much of that is truth and how much of that is just on paper depends on who’s talking and what kind of mood they are in on any given day.

Black folk have always lived like two-fisted drinkers drink. One drink for this hand, and another drink for the other hand. It is one of the most animate hypocrisies of all time to live in two worlds, one where we know the truth, and two where we can’t always tell it.

Enter the Year 2008 and our first viable black presidential candidate is finally running for office and all some blacks have to say is “he isn’t black enough.” Black enough for what?

If we’re waiting on a black president-elect who will turn things around and make it all right for black folk in America, we’d best not hold our collective breath. We will turn white waiting.

Truth told, Barack Obama, like so many black folk who have gone on before him, don’t owe today’s African Americans anything. He owes a debt of pride in his legacy and his righteous inheritance to his parents, grandparents, and to those unrelated who paved the way before him, but his obligations and duties end there.

The black and colored citizens of the Americas who have hailed from some root of connection to the Diaspora are no longer blood-born citizens of Africa and are only annexed onto the Constitution of the United States by a couple of bills and a hand full of amendments that can be overridden and re-amended. There’s proof enough of that in every state in the union, where there seem to be a set of written laws for whites and a set of unwritten laws for blacks, and where the written laws only apply to blacks when whites are the victims of their various animosities.

How did we ever come from that place to this one? By lack of knowledge and insolence.

The greater collective black folk, though miseducated and mostly misunderstood, had no place and made no room in their hearts for re-education, and had little to no respect for those who knew the truth. When we don’t know, don’t care to know, and have nothing but loathing and disrespect for those who do know, we soon learn that roosting chickens have more than one place to come home to and hatch.

Others amongst us have made a mighty effort to fill our swept-out societal pariahs with new knowledge to replace the old. Once we come to the place of recognition that what once was no longer exists, we must either choose to dwell with what is familiar and comfortable, or choose to move forward and embrace what is unfamiliar but will become familiar as time possesses it and doles it out in unequal proportions amongst us.

Once upon a time, when we had not many choices set before us at the conference table of life, we acted as others expected us to act. Sometimes we did this to appease, other times we did it to appeal, many times we did it to rebel, and more often than not, we did it because we knew that even those who can only sneak a peek from hell can still visualize the horizon of heaven looming just beyond their reach.

At some point along the way, the black collective understood that a people incomplete and with hope deferred tend to make unwise choices and end up living with the consequences. I often found within myself a certain double-mindedness that “made me” do wrong even when I knew what was right.

On the one side of my inner conscious, I looked at a certain set of black folk and shook my head in despair, saying that surely Dr. King’s life, and the lives of the hundreds of thousands of others lost in the Civil Rights Movement, and the time before that during the radical reconstruction, was a huge waste of time. Dr. King, I thought, could have lived out his life in peace, an old black preacher man from the south that his children and his wife could have seen off, not by the blow of a bullet, but by the deliverance of a eulogy in the church in which he delivered his first sermon. However, the other side of my inner conscious tells me that those who took no wooden nickels and made it all count for joy are the ones of which he, and all the others who sacrificed their lives and put their heads on the chopping block, would be proud; barring all others to their own detriment.

As we meander down the road, waiting for the sounds of joyous cries from the black community across the land, the joyous cries that are not walled behind stained glass or mirrored reflections of financial prosperity that will never apply to all, the evolutionist pundits will tell us that we’re supposed to have better sense than to have “faith” in anything. Everything in life, per the critical ‘they’, is coldly and methodically calculated, easily guessed or figured out, and our formerly peanut-sized brains have so developed and expanded over time, that if there were a “god” of some kind to behold, we would still be smarter than he, she, or it. Problem is, without faith, black folk would still be living under Jim Crow law in America.

Marches were planned, and plans were devised, and devices were put in place, but we all know the real truth behind the matter of changing fundamental and operational founding government laws: They can never change what is in a person’s heart.

The only thing that opens and unfolds cloaks filled with unkosher food that we’ve called unclean when God calls it clean, and pulls back blinds and blinders alike, so that we can see from the finite to the unfathomable, is a guiding and divine spirit that moves amongst all. When the truth starts to tear our hearts into pieces, the living sunshine of God’s love pours in like ice cold lemonade on a burning hot day.

Sooner or later, there is no more denial.

Once the denial stops, a hard life becomes a soft one with a firm undercurrent, an impure vegetative thought that once festered like a rotten potato becomes a pure one, a rock and a hard place become a bed and breakfast inn, and the gaping bleeding wound that someone thought could be fixed with a band-aid miraculously begins to heal on its own. The cancer of racism that someone tried to cure with Epsom Salts goes into remission; and the stroke of demonstrable bigotry that someone tried to heal with a pat on the back and the words “good luck” subsides and covers itself over with healthy blood vessels and tissue that doesn’t scar.

No weapon formed against us shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against us in judgment shall be condemned by us. For this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and our righteousness does not come from us, but from Him.

In times past, we have lived in a disaster area in our hearts, souls, minds, and spirits. Corporately and collectively, the American black person whose substance was once rooted in Africa dangled dangerously on the edge of negativity and passivity.

One of Michelle Obama’s opening speeches on the road to the White House spoke of not being afraid; of being tired of being afraid, of being sick and tired of being sick and tired, and it was obvious that some of the words of The Preacher had taken root in her heart.

She had not learned to despise America, as I once had. She simply learned, as I did, that better than complaining is doing. Better than griping is action. Better than denying what is, is formulating an opinion on what can be, and how to change it.

Then came her husband’s speech, “Yes we can,” and the power couple of Illinois that we tuned in and out on, was on the move to being the supernova couple. Though the supernova won’t stay forever, and will never be bigger than the sun, for a brief moment in time it is brighter than the sun because the sun itself, which has control over all things, has mandated it.

The Obamas transcended much in their complete willingness to be transparent and show forth honesty in a time when dishonesty is in power and when asking for righteousness is like asking for trouble. Even if they never sit in the Oval Office and make the kinds of decisions that will change America, and change the world, and even if they can never tell their generations to come “your pop-pop was once the President of the United States…” they did so much to de-polarize a very racially-charged and polarized nation in such a short amount of time that they were a walking, living, breathing Civil Rights memorial unto themselves. It is in them and in others like them that I see Dr. King’s living was not in vain, nor was his death. As Rafiki once told Simba, if God told Barack Obama “it is time,” there’s nothing that any naysayer of any political ilk or trapping will be able to do to stop it.

The world at-large has overwhelmingly, in a 10-1 vote, asked, requested, and required that Barack Obama be president of the United States. It means that he is the only one that they will care to listen to as the next four years roll on. They don’t want to hear anything else America has to say, and this nation could stand to be humble and learn a thing or two from the world it claims to lead. For once, we hope that this nation will do the right thing instead of the white thing.

Right now, internationalism is everything, and it will make or break America in the sense of how the rest of the world sees and beholds us: As a light in the tunnel of darkness, or as a self-destructing global heaping mass conglomeration of confusion and ever-brewing nothingness.

In order to set the world upright again, in order to set this nation back on the right path for everyone and not just a select few, the grassroots folk will, once again, have to change “what is” into what can be. It is not impossible, it is an exercise in resilient and upstanding faith, the kind of faith that finds a second set of footprints in the sand when it seems that only one person is doing the walking.

I do not claim to know the future, or to have premonitions or precognitions about what the future holds, but it doesn’t take a brainiac to figure out that as long as we keep doing what we are doing, we will continue getting what we got. This isn’t just for America, but also for black America, which has to learn to take care of itself, Obama or no Obama. He isn’t The Answer or The Way, he is simply the right leader called at the right time. There is only one way to transform the world, and that one way is to believe in the power of love of all humanity in spite of those who strike out against it in their own self-interests.

We’ve seen the forces of evil at work over many centuries, and they tried and tried hard to destroy the harmonious songs that were barely heard over the sound of crash-boom-bam ugly. They failed.

This is the hour of trading ashes for beauty, dusty mirages for clear cold water, and bitter untruths for the timeless and solid principles of mutual reverence and respect for others amongst God’s holy creation. Maybe we’ll never see another pre-911 America, but nevermore will we make the mistake of voting for and supporting a lie just because we can.

Love is not difficult to figure out, it’s difficult to carry out. Once the bloodletting is shunted and the process of healing begins, nothing in this world, or in our personal lives, will ever be the same again.

Everything we need to know about life and love, we learned in Sunday School: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep,” “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine,” and “Yes, Jesus loves me.”

For the Bible tells us so.

O-Bama, O-Eight: African American Spiritual Writers for Obama.

Five Today (One from Hillary)

Deborah Simmel — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:07:25 EDT

The Huffington Post has some nice quotes from the five Superdelegates endorsing Senator Obama today, one switching his support from Sen. Clinton. Watching our candidate cement this nomination is going to be a wonderful kick-off to the start of Summer. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many announce for Obama before the end of Memorial Day? Enjoy!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/23/superdelegates-shift-to-o_n_103275.html

Pelosi Calls For Cut In Superdelegates In 2012

Inspired in Florida - a Recovering Republican — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:00:59 EDT

According to CQ Politics

Speaker Nancy Pelosi , who will chair the Democratic National Convention, said Thursday she thinks the party should slash the number of so-called superdelegates for the 2012 presidential race.

With Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York extremely close in their race for delegates chosen by voters in primaries and caucuses, the choice of a presidential nominee will fall to the superdelegates.

They are the 796 ex-officio delegates chosen from select ranks — members of Congress, governors and other elected officials and state party leaders. They include Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, who is a superdelegate from California and of course Pelosi herself.

The unprecedented prominent role of this year’s group of superdelegates has led to charges that their very existence is undemocratic, taking the presidential choice out of the hands of voters.

“I think 800 is far too many,” said Pelosi, D-Calif.

Pelosi said she opposed the idea of superdelegates when they were created some three decades ago. She also ran a losing campaign for Democratic National Committee chair two decades ago, in which abolishing superdelegates was part of her platform.

“There should be some way to have some ex-oficio delegates, some elected leaders of the state parties and the rest,” she said. “They do the work of the party between conventions, but it shouldn’t be 700, 800 people. It should be some representation of the leadership of the party and of the congressional, gubernatorial and other manifestations of the party.”

As Pelosi spoke, the latest Associated Press count showed Obama needs just 61 delegates to clinch the nomination. Including committed super-delegates, he has 1,965 delegates to Clinton’s 1,780, with 2,026 required to win.

“On June 3 the math will become clear,” she said, referring to the final day of state primaries and caucuses. “And we’ll have a nominee.”

Will Pelosi endorse Obama today?

Inspired in Florida - a Recovering Republican — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:19:37 EDT

A number of senior party members, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have said the superdelegates should endorse the decision of the pledged delegates.

The majority of pledged delgates have decided.

Will Pelosi endorse Obama today?

John Edwards was the gift for Michigan. What will be the gift to Florida?

Wouldn't THAT be sweeeeeeet?

Barack Obama Captures the Majority of Selected Delegates

ObamaBob NSB — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:41:14 EDT

From Barack: What we just achievedby Christopher HassTuesday, May 20, 2008 at 10:00 PM

The polls are closed in Kentucky and votes are being counted in Oregon, and it's clear that tonight we have reached a major milestone on this journey.
We have won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the people in this Democratic primary process.
From the beginning, this journey wasn't about me or the other candidates. It was about a simple choice -- will we continue down the same road with the same leadership that has failed us for so long, or will we take a different path?
Too many of us have been disappointed by politics and politicians more times than you can count. We've seen promises broken and good ideas drowned in a sea of influence, point-scoring, and petty bickering that has consumed Washington.
Yet, in spite of all the doubt and disappointment -- or perhaps because of it -- people have stood for change.
Unfortunately, our opponents in the other party continue to embrace yesterday's policies and they will continue to employ yesterday's tactics -- they will try to change the subject, and they will play on fears and divisions to distract us from what matters to you and your future.
But those tactics will not work in this election.
They won't work because you won't let them.
Not this time. Not this year.
We still have work to do to in the remaining states, where we will compete for every delegate available.
But tonight, I want to thank you for everything you have done to take us this far -- farther than anyone predicted, expected, or even believed possible.
And I want to remind you that you will make all the difference in the epic challenge ahead.
Thank you,
Barack Obama

2 MORE SUPERDELEGATES

ObamaBob NSB — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:01:26 EDT

Two more Superdelegates just this morning, the day of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries!

Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo Endorses Barack Obama; Delegate Countdown - 107 To Goby Sam Graham-FelsenTuesday, May 20, 2008 at 11:10 AMCHICAGO, IL – Guam Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo endorsed Barack Obama today, saying she believes he is the right candidate to move our nation forward.

“Today I have pledged my support as a superdelegate to Senator Barack Obama. Senator Obama offers us the leadership needed to address the challenges Guam and our nation will face in the coming years.

Senator Obama is working very closely with Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and other Senate leaders to secure more support for H.R. 1595, the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act. Senator Obama fully understands and supports the efforts to seek full recognition for the patriotism and suffering endured by the people of Guam during enemy occupation in World War II.

Senator Obama has also pledged to help improve Guam's economy, including through opportunities with the military build-up—an issue I have worked very hard on since taking office—and I believe he is the right candidate to help move Guam and our nation forward given the challenges we face in our world today.”

Iowa Democratic Chairman Scott Brennan for Obama; Delegate Countdown - 108 To Goby Sam Graham-FelsenTuesday, May 20, 2008 at 11:07 AM

The Quad City Times reports...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Democratic Chairman Scott Brennan will announce on Tuesday his endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, The Associated Press has learned.

The decision adds more momentum for Obama in an important swing state likely to be hard fought in November.

Big Day Tomorrow

Roger — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:57:25 EDT

Although the primaries are already pretty much a done deal for us, it is still a very important day tomorrow. We have, as I'm sure the campaign as already let you know, the opportunity to clinch a majority of pledged delegates tomorrow. We will almost certainly get the seventeen needed for such a majority. On top of that, tomorrow we will likely reach a lead of 200+ total delegates over Senator Clinton.

Clinton is now claiming that she in fact leads in the popular vote, which is no more than an out and out lie. Even if we count Florida (which we really shouldn't), Obama is still ahead in the popular vote by about 400,000 votes. And Michigan we certainly cannot count considering that Obama wasn't on the ballot, and that there were upwards of 40% uncommitted.

So, to recap, we are about to clinch a majority of pledged delegates. We are leading by around 200 total delegates. We are ahead (w/o Florida and Michigan) by over 700,000 votes. And despite Clinton's initial endorsement by so many early in the campaign, we are now creating a sizable superdelegate lead (20+) and it only continues to grow.

R.W.

Using MSNBC's number - 27 superdelegates to shut out Clinton

Thatcher — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:17:25 EDT

On March 28, over at Chris Weigant's blog, Chris asked his readers to place their bets (in quatloos) when Clinton would drop out of the Presidential race. Well, I've done pretty well so far. I predicted that Obama would surpass Clinton in Superdelegates before the West Virginia primary (got it right) and several of my delegate totals from the primaries were darn close (I didn't do so well on my original delegate estimate for Indiana). Also, I was only 1 day off for the John Edwards endorsement of Obama. My final prediction is Clinton drops out on June 16, just 31 days from now.

27. This is the magic number.

The blog editor won't allow tables ... so the rest of the post is over at The Dead Guy

No confusion, here's the math for Obama

ObamaBob NSB — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:57:42 EDT

Countdown to the Nomination - 121.5 Delegates to Goby Sam Graham-FelsenFriday, May 16, 2008 at 08:44 AM

Yesterday, Obama secured the support of 4 superdelegates (Reps. Henry Wexler, Jim McDermott and Howard Berman and Larry Cohen (CWA DNC)), 1 pledged delegate in North Carolina (because of updated vote tallies in the state) and 7 pledged delegates that had previously supported John Edwards. That means that the number for Obama to secure a majority of pledged delegates has gone down from 25 to 17. And the number Obama needs to secure the nomination is 121.5.

The Math

Total Pledged Delegates: 3,253

Pledged Delegates needed for a majority of pledged delegates: 1,627

Total delegates needed for nomination: 2,025

Edwards Pledged Delegates who are now Obama Delegates:7

Obama Pledged Delegates:1,603

Obama Super Delegates: 293.5

Obama Total Delegates:1,903.5

Delegates Obama needs for a majority of pledged delegates: 17

Obama need to secure the Democratic nomination: 121.5

Please make some calls and make a donation today http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama and continue the momentum. We're getting close, but we need everyone to continue to be involved if we want to make this thing happen.

Edwards Endorses. Now, About Those Delegates . . . .

Deborah Simmel — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:44:26 EDT

The Democratic Convention Watch site gives a good explanation of what will happen to the pledged delegates allocated to John Edwards, now that he's endorsed our guy. Read the details and what a few Edwards Delegates have to say.

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-happens-to-edwards-delegates.html

Barack Evening Buzz 5-14-08: John Edwards on Board

N. Julio Barthson - E-Campaign Leader — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:01:36 EDT

On to Victory in November

Edwards Endorses Obama

Luke from Chesterton — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:34:02 EDT

Hoorah! John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama. Unfortunately, he did it after West Virginia. A little too much too late? Maybe it'll have an impact on Kentucky. And Superdelegates.

Edwards endorses Obama

jp — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:17:11 EDT

Per breaking news on msnbc, others may have reported this, but I think this is a goodie.

The Real Numbers

Inspired in Florida - a Recovering Republican — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:06:15 EDT

135.5 TOTAL DELEGATES needed for the nomination. There are appoximately 50 delegates who haven't publically endoresed Barack, but have privately promised their vote. That means Barack needs 85 delegates FOR the nomination. Not close, not a majority. A decisive win. It will play out until June 4. CAN WE DO IT? YES WE CAN!!

Lanny Davis Traitor

Spencer — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:15:01 EDT

Lanny Davis is spearheading the anti DNC position someone ought to throw him out of the Democratic party. He flatly stated repeatedly on Larry King that he was speaking for the Clinton camp. He stated that 2025 was not the number, even if Sen, Obama made it there before the convention it was meaningless. Of course he has his own set of rules, numbers and is thumbing his nose ( speaking for the Clinton camp) at the DNC, Howard Dean, the rules committee, the Superdelegates, the delegates, the Democratic party. I think it is high time for someone to swat him like the gnat he has shown himself to be.

Avalanche Warning

Carole@www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:15 EDT

It's raining delegates, storm warning dispatched. What was a trickle of four, then five, became 20, with no promise of letting up.

What's an avalanche anyway?

"Anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity: an avalanche of misfortunes; an avalanche of fan mail."
"To overwhelm with an extremely large amount of anything; swamp" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

Did you know there's a verb, avalanching?

A friend of mine writes that she's tired, just finished having company. "Sleep now," I wrote back, "An avalanche is coming, and it's so exciting you won't be able to sleep later."

Snowy white, pure and clean. Fresh air. It's here.

It smells avalanchy (new word).

Carole

150 Delegates Away: Idaho Democrat Chair Endorses Obama

Carole@www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:40:27 EDT

Superdelegate Keith Roark endorsed Barack Obama for President today.

Roark, the Chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party, said Obama's candidacy will give a "once in a lifetime boost" to rebuild the Idaho Democratic Party.

"The unprecedented enthusiasm Senator Obama has generated here in Idaho is unlike anything I have seen in the past 31 years of active political participation in this State," Rorak explained.

Young voters' "mint fresh optimism" has been captured by Obama, Roark said.

281 Number of superdelegates endorsing Obama

150 Number of delegates needed to secure the nomination

Carole

OBAMA WINS FOR SURE!

Mary — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:09:34 EDT

"Think about what I am going to be running against, the failed policies of the Bush administration which John McCain wants to continue." Obama said.

Obama has the lead in Superdelegates!!!

Beth — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:05:00 EDT

The Associated Press just announced that Sen. Obama has finally taken the lead in superdelegates. Here is the link to the article if anyone is interested.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556427/

It mentions that 2 of Sen. Clinton's endorsers from the Virgin Islands have jumped ship and swam over to Sen. Obama. Plus he picked up 3 more endorsements from superdelegates from Utah, Ohio & Arizona.

Saturday Super Tally - 5-0 !!

John Nail — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:28:09 EDT

Day’s Tally: Obama 5, Clinton 0*

Obama gets nod of Arizona Congressman Harry Mitchell.

Land of Lincolner nabs two Virgin Island supers — Kevin Rodriquez, who switched from Clinton, and Carole Burke.

Also picks up Utah DNC super Kristi Cumming after the state elects her as its add-on, and Ohio add-on labor leader Dave Regan

Clinton gets Massachusetts DNC super Arthur Powell after state makes him its add-on.

Clinton supporter and former DNC chair Don Fowler on Obama: “It is perceived that he is the leader. The trickle is going to become an avalanche.”

*Rodriquez’s switch to Obama takes one super away from Clinton.

Saturday’s Super Battle

My Letter to the FL SD's Urging a Switch from Clinton to Barack Obama

Inspired in Florida - a Recovering Republican — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:27:17 EDT

It's time to start healing and preparing for a Democratic Victory in Florida in Nov. I like both Obama and Clinton and believe either would be markedly better than the alternative.
I am sure that Hillary Clinton is dealing with how to handle the crumbling of a life-long dream. All of us, at one time or another, have come face-to-face with such a moment. But her comment to an AP reporter about hard working American’s, white Americans, is a grotesque insult to African-American voters, as well as an insult to white voters, including white working-class women voters like me. Surely the United States, and Florida, with it’s richness in diversity, is in a much better place now than it was when people could make political hay by appealing to the very worst in people, using the kind of poisonous rhetoric.
Only one can be the Democratic nominee and this battle has to end sooner or later. While I hope Hillary's is working on a positive exit strategy, her campaign is one she can be proud of despite her comment about hard working American’s, white Americans, I’m sure she didn’t mean it the way it was heard, but sometimes it’s the impact, not the intent one must consider when making choices.
It's time to unite the party in Florida. There is much work to be done.
The momentum in the Democratic presidential contest is rapidly shifting to Barack Obama even in a state where Clinton carried 50 percent of the vote. Even if you include the votes of Florida's Jan. 29 primary – or even Florida and Michigan both – Obama still prevails
The April 23-29 Quinnipiac University's poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points, and found the economy was by far the most important issue to Florida voters. R Sen Martinez is heavily lobbying for the Columbia Free Trade agreement as having significant positive impact on Florida's economy. Property taxes, education, healthcare/Medicare, immigration and crime are all hot issues for Florida voters. Republicans are again pushing for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf, which will not make environmentalists very happy.
Obama's favorable/unfavorable rating was 47 percent/36 percent and McCain's was 51 percent/32 percent.
Against Obama, McCain led among men 46 percent to 42 percent, while women split 44 percent for Obama, 42 percent for McCain. McCain led white voters by 14 percentage points, while Obama beat him among black voters 83 percent to 8 percent.
McCain's Navy record and medals chronicle the career, heroism of a pilot and POW will play well in FL. The BIGGEST factor may be if McCain taps Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as his running mate.
Crist's 59 percent rating continues his slow, incremental decline that has come more among independents and Democrats. His approval rating peaked at 73 percent in March and July of 2007, while his previous low was 65 percent in September and October of 2007. By a margin of 51 - 33 percent, including 46 - 40 percent among Democrats, Florida voters think the Republican Crist has kept his campaign promises.
We have so much work to do. And Florida DOES MATTER. There can be only one Democratic nominee and this battle has to end sooner or later. Preferably sooner, so we can focus on Nov, united.
I urge you to switch your Convention voting pledge from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama.

Obama Is Gaining Strength In Florida

Inspired in Florida - a Recovering Republican — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:00:42 EDT

It's time to start healing and preparing for a Democratic Victory in Florida in Nov. Tell these superdelagates while we hope Hillary's is working on a positive exit stratgy, her campaign is one she can be proud of. But it's time to unite the party in Florida. There is much work to be done.

Lobby those now pledged to Clinton to switch to Obama; Bill Nelson, Ken Curtis, Alcee Hastings, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Corrine Brown Kendrick Meek, Raul Martinez, Chuck Mohlke

Lobby those now Uncommitted to pledge their vote to Obama; Alex Sink

CLICK HERE. IT'S EASY

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According to a May 9th article pulished Here

OBAMA IS GAINING STRENGTH IN FLORIDA

Clintom carried 50 percent of the vote in the primary, but she is viewed as the underdog.

TALLAHASSEE | As Hillary Clinton pins her last, best hopes for reviving her campaign on the still uncounted Florida and Michigan primaries, the momentum in the Democratic presidential contest is rapidly shifting to Barack Obama even in a state where Clinton carried 50 percent of the vote.
"If I had to put this in a sports analogy, it's the seventh inning of the ballgame and the score is 8-to-2. Obama has got a huge lead," said state Sen. Steve Geller, D-Cooper City, one of Florida's uncommitted superdelegates. "But it doesn't mean the game is over yet. Stranger things have occurred."
As part of her underdog strategy, Clinton is pressing for the national party to count the Florida and Michigan primaries - which she won but were not recognized because the primaries were moved up in violation of party rules.
Clinton beat Obama by a 50-to-33 percent margin in the Florida primary.
Clinton is also heavily wooing the superdelegates, where seven of Florida's 25 superdelegates to the national convention have endorsed the New York senator. Clinton, though, has not won any new commitments, while Obama recently picked up his fifth superdelegate from Florida.
Geller said he had received a half-dozen calls from Clinton emissaries seeking his commitment. He had not heard from Obama.

The Uncommitted Superdelegates

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:48:11 EDT

213 Preference Unknown

Daniel K. Akaka, Senator, Hawaii Mr. Akaka will not make an endorsement, but is willing to support whoever the Democratic nominee is, according to a spokesman. All the major candidates are qualified, Mr. Akaka said.

Tom Allen, Representative, Me.

Jason Altmire, Representative, Pa. Says that he remains on the fence for now but was wondering whether he had a "moral obligation" to let voters know his preferred candidate.

Max Baucus, Senator, Mont.

Joyce Beatty, Party official, Ohio

Howard L. Berman, Representative, Calif.

Steven Beshear, Governor, Ky.

Joseph R. Biden, Senator, Del.

Donald Bivens, Party official, Ariz.

Anita Bonds, Party official, D.C.

Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Representative, Guam

Dan Boren, Representative, Okla. "I don't think Hillary will carry Oklahoma. I'm not going that far. But if you look at the tide across the country, Democrats rank ahead of Republicans on just about everything except terrorism."

Barbara Boxer, Senator, Calif. Although she does not plan to endorse either candidate as long as both are running, she says she plans to vote for Mrs. Clinton at the convention because Mrs. Clinton won the California primary, saying "the will of the voters is paramount."An aide to Senator Barbara Boxer of California said Ms. Boxer would cast her superdelegate vote for the winner of the California primary.

Nancy Boyda, Representative, Kan.

Bill Bradbury, Party official, Ore.

Robert A. Brady, Representative, Pa.

Donna L. Brazile, Party official, D.C. "I don't want to superimpose my personal views; I want to reflect the will of the voters. Honestly, I don't want to decide this."

Phil Bredesen, Governor, Tenn. Three years ago, he said that Mrs. Clinton would face an "uphill road" to win the White House. "Surely in the United States we can go further than having to have a single family dominate one side and a single family dominate the other."

Scott Brennan, Party official, Iowa

Sherrod Brown, Senator, Ohio

Raymond Buckley, Party official, N.H.

Elsie Burkhalter, Add on delegate, La.

Robert C. Byrd, Senator, W.Va.

Margaret Campbell, Party official, Mont. "I am very interested in endorsing Obama, but party rules preclude me from endorsing." "It's been emotional, it's been frustrating. It has been very frustrating. It is a huge responsibility."

Benjamin L. Cardin, Senator, Md.

Robin Carnahan, Party official, Mo.

Thomas R. Carper, Senator, Del. "I frankly don't care a lot who ends up at the top of the ticket, but I hope at the end of the day they could be convinced to run together."

Jimmy Carter, Party official, Ga. "Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family. We have four children with their spouses, we have 11 grandchildren, four or five of them are married, and all of them, except one, are for Obama. I think that Obama will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now and the distrust that relates to our country and its government."

G. Nick Casey, Party official, W.Va.

Don Cazayoux, Representative, La.

Cheryl Chapman, Party official, S.D.

Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Party official, Mo.

Linda Chavez-Thompson, Party official, Tex.

James E. Clyburn, Representative, S.C. "I still remain studiously neutral. I think that the historical significance of so-called superdelegates — these are unpledged delegates — is very, very important for us to maintain. We are in place in order to either extend the wishes of the voters or to try to make corrections if they need to be made."

Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Party official, S.C. "I'm undeclared because I think it's important for the process to play itself out. I don't see inserting myself into the process. I'm not interested in being wooed. I'm not important." "It seems to be making me a pretty popular kind of girl in some circles, at least with the media."

Larry Cohen, Party official, D.C.

Jim Costa, Representative, Calif.

Ed Cote, Party official, Wash. "I am still firmly uncommitted and I am going to stay uncommitted. I do not have to vote until the week of Aug. 25. This is only Feb. 11."

Joe Courtney, Representative, Conn.

Robert E. Cramer, Representative, Ala. Has said that he would not been endorsing anyone in the nomination phase.

C. Richard Cranwell, Party official, Va. "I think the fray will be settled long before the convention starts."

Inez Crutchfield, Party official, Tenn.

John Daniello, Party official, Del.

Susan A. Davis, Representative, Calif.

Lincoln Davis, Representative, Tenn. Says he will head to the convention uncommitted, adding: "Senator Clinton won by a sizable margin in my district, better than 70 percent. I usually try to be sure I represent the wishes of the people in my congressional district."

Ralph Dawson, Party official, N.Y.

Howard Dean, Party official, Vt.

Jennifer DeChant, Party official, Me.

Joseph C. DeCotiis, Party official, N.J.

Nancy DiNardo, Party official, Conn.

Frank Dixon, Party official, Ore.

Joe Donnelly, Representative, Ind.

Wayne Dowdy, Party official, Miss.

Mike Doyle, Representative, Pa.

Nancy Drummond, Party official, Wyo. "I do have a favorite, but I'm remaining uncommitted. If it gets down to the superdelegates as a deciding factor, I want to be sure I represent Wyoming."

Brad Ellsworth, Representative, Ind. "I don't think anyone knows how long the race for the Democrat nomination will go or what role the superdelegates will play. But I am glad that, for the first time in a long time, Indiana will likely have a say on who the nominee will be."

Rahm Emanuel, Representative, Ill. "Everybody knows I worked for the Clintons. I'm very close to the Clintons. And I'm very close to Barack. Let's be honest, does anybody want to pick among friends? It's a human thing, not a political thing. At some point, if I have to make a decision, I will. But I prefer, you know, they've got to go on and develop their campaigns."

Bob Etheridge, Representative, N.C.

Sam Farr, Representative, Calif.

Jimmie Farris, Party official, Tenn.

Russ Feingold, Senator, Wis. "I'm having a hard time deciding between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as are many people. Those are the two I take the most seriously. I go back and forth, to be honest with you. I'm torn on this whole issue of who's more likely to be progressive and really seek change vs. who's ready to do the job today. It really is a true dilemma in my mind."

Bob Filner, Representative, Calif. "It's my dream that each side will get 2,024 delegates, and I'll cast the deciding vote. There seems to be too many delegates this time. Too many people not making decisions who haven't had to be elected in support of a candidate."

Thomas Foley, Party official, Wash.

Carnelia Pettis Fondren, Party official, Miss.

Jim E. Frasier, Party official, Okla.

Lawrence Gates, Party official, Kan.

Yvonne A. Gates, Party official, Nev.

Alice Travis Germond, Party official, W.Va. "We're all hopeful that one way or another it will be resolved without having our first vote at the convention be a test vote or a vote that in any way appears to show Democrats in disarray."

Gabrielle Giffords, Representative, Ariz.

Terry Goddard, Add on delegate, Ariz.

Bart Gordon, Representative, Tenn.

Al Gore, Party official, Tenn.

Jenny Greenleaf, Party official, Ore. "Because I'm an officer of the state party, and we don't want the state party to be seen as providing more or better services to one candidate or another, I plan to stay neutral until Oregon's late primary in May."

Karen Hale, Party official, Utah Has said that she is considering switching her support to Mr. Obama because some party insiders believe the excitement of an Obama candidacy will boost the chances of Utah Democrats running in state races. "I'm conflicted. There has been a lot of pressure to change my vote."

David Hardt, Party official, Tex. Officially uncommitted because he is president of the Young Democrats of America, but plans to vote for Mrs. Clinton after fielding calls from her, Mr. Clinton and Chelsea, who also visited him in Nevada. "It's always shocking when you get a call from someone like that."

Tom Harkin, Senator, Iowa "I haven't made up my mind yet. I'm still neutral in this race, and I intend to remain that way."

Vicki Harwell, Add on delegate, Tenn. "At this point, I'm leaning toward Senator Clinton." She met Mrs. Clinton personally and found her to be a "dynamic, dedicated Democratic woman." "I certainly think she has earned the right to run and certainly to be our nominee."

Kamil Hasan, Party official, Calif. "I think the difference between the delegates for the two candidates will be so small that none of them will have the majority. It looks very likely that the superdelegates will end up deciding who the next Democratic nominee will be."

Alexis Herman, Party official, Va.

Tim Holden, Representative, Pa. "I haven't made a decision on either Obama or Clinton. I usually don't get involved in the primary when there is an open seat. We really haven't talked about it."

Chris Van Hollen, Representative, Md.

Ivan Holmes, Party official, Okla. "My inclination at this point is to stay uncommitted to the end."

Rush Holt, Representative, N.J.

Mike Honda, Representative, Calif.

Steny H. Hoyer, Representative, Md.

William J. Jefferson, Representative, La.

Blake Johnson, Party official, Alaska

Joe Johnson, Party official, Va.

Marcy Kaptur, Representative, Ohio

Awais Khaleel, Party official, Wis. "I don 't think anybody my age, 23 years old, expects to be this deep in the process right now."

Wayne Kinney, Party official, Ore.

Helen Knetzer, Party official, Kan.

Herb Kohl, Senator, Wis.

Debra Kozikowski, Party official, Mass. "I appreciate my position as a party leader and don't shirk those responsibilities. I just don't want to run out on a street corner and scream it out."

Dennis J. Kucinich, Representative, Ohio

Reggie LaFayette, Party official, N.Y.

Nick Lampson, Representative, Tex.

Mary L. Landrieu, Senator, La.

Frank R. Lautenberg, Senator, N.J.

Claude Leach, Party official, La.

Jim Leaman, Party official, Va.

Jerry Lee, Add on delegate, Tenn. Said he intends to "listen very closely" to both Democratic frontrunners in the coming weeks and then vote at the convention "for the one I think is most electable in November."

Belkis Leong-Hong, Party official, Md.

Sam Lieberman, Party official, Nev. "If it had been a blowout for one candidate, I would have probably gone with the Nevada candidate. Because of how close it was ... it will probably play only a small role in my decision."

Pilar Lujan, Party official, Guam

John Lynch, Governor, N.H.

Eileen Macoll, Party official, Wash. "They have so much to offer. It's an amazing experience to be a superdelegate and in this position. I truly am undecided." "I'm going to watch the traffic and watch the flow and see which way it's going. I'll especially be watching how the vote goes in the large states that remain, like Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio. That will perhaps lead me to a decision."

Joe Manchin, Governor, W.Va.

Edward J. Markey, Representative, Mass.

Christine Schon Marques, Party official, Dem. abroad

Jim Marshall, Representative, Ga.

Catherine Cortez Mastor, Party official, Nev.

Jim Matheson, Representative, Utah

Jim McDermott, Representative, Wash.

Dennis McDonald, Party official, Mont. "Out of respect for this process, our superdelegates will not take a position. Certainly not until after the June 3 primary."

David T. McDonald, Party official, Wash. "Delegate-by-delegate fights are very emotionally intense. There is a great risk to all of us that the support base of the two candidates will not be able to work for the other. The single best way for a Republican to win is for us to have a fight that gets out of hand. Whoever we support, the overriding concern is to not have a Republican in the White House next year."

Mike McIntyre, Representative, N.C.

Jerry McNerney, Representative, Calif.

Leila Medley, Party official, Mo. "I still haven't made a commitment, and I still don't know what to do."

Charlie Melancon, Representative, La.

Michael H. Michaud, Representative, Me.

Glenard S. Middleton, Party official, Md.

Carole Migden, Party official, Calif.

Harry E. Mitchell, Representative, Ariz. "I've read the position papers of the candidates, I've been contacted by them and their surrogates and I'm still not committed yet."

George Mitchell, Party official, N.Y.

Heather Mizeur, Party official, Md.

Alan B. Mollohan, Representative, W.Va.

Dennis Moore, Representative, Kan.

Jennifer Moore, Party official, Ky.

Theresa Morelli, Party official, Dem. abroad "The fact that she has devoted her life to helping children and those less fortunate speak volumes about Hillary Clinton’s character. She has not only an incredible grasp of the issues facing America, but a track record of delivering real results. Hillary is the strongest Democratic candidate to beat John McCain in November and restore America’s standing in the world."

Mike Morgan, Party official, Okla.

Bob Mulholland, Party official, Calif.

Phil Murphy, Party official, N.J.

Jay Nixon, Add on delegate, Mo.

Donald Norcross, Party official, N.J. "We need to seize this momentum, attract a new generation of leaders to our party, while rallying behind the candidate who can best unite the country during these uncertain economic times. That candidate is Senator Barack Obama."

Cynthia Nunley, Party official, Wyo. "It's too early in the process to be in the mode of one-candidate-take-all. There are a lot of voices to be heard yet and there are a lot of questions to be asked."

Muriel K. Offerman, Party official, N.C.

John W. Olver, Representative, Mass.

Ben Pangelinan, Party official, Guam

David Parker, Party official, N.C. "Frankly, I'm torn both ways. My mind is with Hillary, my heart is with Obama, and I'm waiting for my gut to report."

Jay Parmley, Party official, Okla. "I guess if it's still undecided at the convention, I'll be free to make a decision one way or the other."

Gregory Pecoraro, Party official, Md.

Christine Pelosi, Party official, Calif.

Nancy Pelosi, Representative, Calif. Ms. Pelosi says she remains neutral in the race and that her "focus is on reelecting a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives".

Dwight Pelz, Party official, Wash.

John A. Perez, Party official, Calif.

Carol W. Peterson, Party official, N.C.

Collin C. Peterson, Representative, Minn.

Roberto Ramirez, Party official, N.Y.

Robert Rankin, Party official, Calif. "I try to listen to everybody. I would like to weigh everything together before I make a decision. We should consider our own people that we feel we represent."

Gail Rasmussen, Party official, Ore.

Richard Ray, Party official, Ga.

Chris Redfern, Party official, Ohio

Jack Reed, Senator, R.I. He has said the votes of Rhode Islanders will be a major factor in his decision about whom to back. He sees both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama as potentially "very capable" candidates and presidents. "But the qualities of the candidates are important, and so is electability." "There's no on-off switch, there's no simple formula."

Harry Reid, Senator, Nev. Says he is "not going to weigh in on this at all" until the states finish voting.

Jeffrey Richardson, Party official, D.C. "The Democratic Party has an opportunity, with the groundswell of support Sen. Obama has built in his campaign with independents and young people, to expand the party long-term."

Betty Richie, Party official, Tex.

Boyd Richie, Party official, Tex.

Bill Ritter, Governor, Colo.

Keith Roark, Party official, Idaho

Kevin Rodriguez, Party official, V.I.

Roy Romer, Party official, Colo.

James Roosevelt, Party official, Mass. "I would urge superdelegates who are undecided to wait and see to get a better gauge of electability of the candidates."

Eliseo Roques-Arroyo, Party official, P.R.

Ken Salazar, Senator, Colo. "How I'm going to decide the question is to look at each and determine who would be best for Colorado. I'll look at their positions on all the issues in detail."

John Salazar, Representative, Colo.

John Sarbanes, Representative, Md.

Gray Sasser, Party official, Tenn. Says he is fretting over the idea that insiders will "get in the back of some smoke-filled room and decide it." "I'm still hopeful this will be decided like every other nomination in recent history."

Brian Schweitzer, Governor, Mont.

Jerome Wiley Segovia, Party official, Va

.Lottie H. Shackelford, Party official, Ark.

Marva Smalls, Party official, S.C

.Nathan Smith, Party official, Ky.

Meredith Wood Smith, Party official, Ore. "We don't have to make a choice right now. It's too early for that. There are still caucuses and primaries going on."

Edward M. Smith, Party official, Ill.

Zack Space, Representative, Ohio

Cindy Spanyers, Party official, Alaska [Referring to the idea that superdelegates may override the decision of the voters] "I had no idea it would come down to this." "I find myself getting a little sickened over the prospect of that being the key decision."

Sam Spencer, Party official, Me. "I want to figure out how to most broadly represent Maine Democrats in the Democratic National Committee." "Superdelegates are sort of outdated; it's not a very democratic way of doing things."

John M. Spratt, Representative, S.C. He is "lying low," according to a spokesman.

Pete Stark, Representative, Calif.

Irene Stein, Party official, N.Y.

Crystal Strait, Party official, Calif. "I saw my role, being one of two women under 30 on the [Democratic National Committee], to advocate for young voters. It's crucial to understand what they think real investment in general election in the youth vote will be. Neither has come forward with that. The Clinton campaign has been much more serious in their delegate outreach. Senator Clinton and Chelsea Clinton have called me. Obama had Governor Napolitano call me."

David Strauss, Party official, N.D.

Robert Strauss, Party official, Tex.

Marie Dolly Strazar, Party official, Hawaii

John J. Sweeney, Party official, Md.

Gene Taylor, Representative, Miss.

Lena Taylor, Party official, Wis.

John Temporiti, Party official, Mo.

Jon Tester, Senator, Mont. "Jon will vote for the candidate he feels would best serve Montana and represents Montana values. But he won't make any decisions about his vote until at least after the Montana primary," Tester spokesman Aaron Murphy said in an e-mail message.

John F. Tierney, Representative, Mass.

Art Torres, Party official, Calif

.Niki Tsongas, Representative, Mass.

Susan W. Turnbull, Party official, Md

.Joe Turnham, Party official, Ala.

Mark Udall, Representative, Colo.

Tom Udall, Representative, N.M.

Keith Umemoto, Party official, Calif.

Peter J. Visclosky, Representative, Ind.

Patricia Waak, Party official, Colo.

Christine Warnke, Party official, D.C.

Vernon R. Watkins, Party official, Calif.

Henry A. Waxman, Representative, Calif.

Jim Webb, Senator, Va.

Yolanda Wheat, Party official, Mo.

Chris Whittington, Party official, La. He has said Mr. Obama's decisive victory in Louisiana will partly influence his thinking, but the main consideration is who looks to be the eventual nominee. "I think we need to go with a winner."

Charlie Wilson, Representative, Ohio

Harriet Smith Windsor, Party official, Del.

Joshua Wisch, Party official, Hawaii

Beverly Withington, Party official, Hawaii [Referring to Mrs. Clinton's plan for troop withdrawal in Iraq] "It can't be done in less than six months, that's for sure. I believe the sentiment of the majority of America is to get the troops out sooner, but everyone understands that can't be overnight because there needs to be a phase-out, but I don't believe anyone should be there until 2013."

Nancy Worley, Party official, Ala.

Ron Wyden, Senator, Ore.

Steven Ybarra, Party official, Calif. "Hillary Clinton's campaign is in trouble and the highest ranking Hispanic in her camp is paying the price. Campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle stepped down this weekend — after Barack Obama beat Clinton handily in four states scattered in different regions of the country."

Paula Zellner, Party official, Wis.

The Superdelegates Who Support Obama

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:37:12 EDT

New York Times Count of Superdelegates

265 Supporting Obama*

Based on public announcements, verified lists from the Clinton and Obama campaigns and telephone surveys by The New York Times and CBS News. The tally below does not include confidential responses to the telephone poll, unless the delegate's preference was subsequently publicly announced. Updated May 9.
*One superdelegate who expressed support for Mr. Obama on the telephone poll but wished to remain anonymous is not included in Mr. Obama's total below.
Neil Abercrombie, Representative, Hawaii "I think part of his appeal is the fact that he understands our diversity. He defines us, rather than divides us. And that's a message that I think needs to be taken into this poisonous political atmosphere. I believe he'll do very well. I believe he'll be nominated. I'm certainly going to work very hard for that to take place."

Anibal Acevedo, Governor, P.R. "Not only is he the right leader for Puerto Ricans, but he is the right leader for the Hispanic community and the right leader to unite all Americans. He has the determination to make our collective future great. Senator Obama demonstrates the strongest commitment to Puerto Rico that we have seen in recent times in U.S. politics."

Steven Achelpohl, Party official, Neb. "Sen. Obama continues to transcend 'politics as usual' and focus on the issues that really matter to American families and workers." "Our party can unite behind Sen. Obama and his positive campaign.""I am truly undecided. Hillary is such a lightning rod, and I know she would dampen turnout in our down-ballot races in Nebraska. I know Obama has greater appeal to young people, and I am influenced by the fact that Nebraska went so heavily for Obama."

Steven K. Alari, Party official, Calif.

Yvette Alexander, Add on delegate, D.C.

Joe Andrew, Party official, Ind. [On why he switched his support from Clinton to Obama] "I am convinced that the primary process has devolved to the point that it's now bad for the Democratic Party." "While I was hopeful that a long, contested primary season would invigorate our party, the polls show that the tone and temperature of the race is now hurting us." "John McCain, without doing much of anything, is now competitive against both of our remaining candidates. We are doing his work for him and distracting Americans from the issues that really affect all of our lives.""My commitment to her is profound, but I would be troubled if either she or Barack Obama actually became the nominee because superdelegates decided, opposed to actual voters going to the polls and pulling the lever."

Kitti Asberry, Party official, Okla.

Anthony Avallone, Party official, Conn.

Brian Baird, Representative, Wash.

John Barrow, Representative, Ga.

Willie Barrow, Party official, Ill. "I support Barack because exemplifies a real man. He is a Christian, husband and father. Universal healthcare, employment and education are the primary issues for me. Our children are not going to school and not graduating. The state is closing schools and opening jails. I think that people of faith have to broaden their ministries outside the walls of the church. Anyone can sing in the choir or serve on the deacon board but how many know the level of unemployment in their community or the number of people losing their homes?"

Melissa Bean, Representative, Ill.

Xavier Becerra, Representative, Calif. "Barack Obama is our strongest candidate for president because of his great crossover appeal that spans parties and regions and his unique ability to rally the American people behind a common purpose."

Teresa Benitez-Thompson, Party official, Nev.

Cecil R. Benjamin, Party official, V.I.

Jeremy Bernard, Party official, Calif. "The only way I could honestly sell her to people would be to say she's going to win. What's the point of that? When we started our company, we wanted to pick only candidates we would be enthusiastic about. Obama was that candidate. He absolutely has the best record on gay and lesbian issues."

Judy Bevans, Party official, Vt. "I'm personally very much leaning toward Obama. I'd love to be able to vote for a woman for president ... but I decided Obama represents a fresh start and it's time to be done with the Clinton-Bush years."

Jack Billion, Party official, S.D. "The overall mood of this state probably leans toward Obama."

Jeff Bingaman, Senator, N.M. "To make progress, we must rise above the partisanship and the issues that divide us to find common ground. We must move the country in a dramatically new direction. I strongly believe Barack Obama is best positioned to lead the nation in that new direction."

Sanford D. Bishop, Representative, Ga.

Margaret Blackshere, Party official, Ill. "Every day he was in the State Senate, he was standing up for working people. When the steel mills were shutting down, Obama said to me 'You know, I see the difference when someone belongs to a union and when they don't. You're their advocate, and I'm going to be an advocate for all of you.'"

Rod R. Blagojevich, Governor, Ill. "I know that Senator Obama will fight to make sure that working families have access to health care, good paying jobs, and opportunities to provide for their children. Senator Obama supports the very best of these Democratic values; they are values that he and I share, values I know he will fight for. Senator Obama has the vision, skills and dedication necessary to bring people together and make real progress in Washington to help solve our country's greatest and most pressing problems. Senator Obama offers real hope for the American people and I am proud to give him my support."

Earl Blumenauer, Representative, Ore. "Senator Obama is demonstrating a unique ability not just to unite Democrats, not just to bring in the vast pool of independent voters that are ultimately going to play such a critical role, but I'm convinced based on what I have seen, what I've heard, what I know, that Senator Obama can unite America."

Connie Borde, Party official, Dem. abroad

Rick Boucher, Representative, Va. "He has the broadest appeal of any of the candidates." "His positive message and steadfast focus on the future inspire hope and enable him to attract support from Democrats, independents and Republicans in a way that no other candidate can. He presents our best opportunity to win the presidency and to govern effectively with bipartisan support from the Congress."

Bruce Braley, Representative, Iowa "It's hard not to be excited about Barack Obama. On a cold January night, and again during Saturday's First District Convention in Iowa, I saw countless people participating in the political process for the very first time because they were so inspired by Senator Obama's unique ability to transcend the politics of fear and division that have crippled this country for the past eight years."

Gail Bray, Party official, Idaho

Joyce Brayboy, Party official, N.C.

Roy LaVerne Brooks, Party official, Tex. "I have listened to the words of many seeking to lead this Party and to lead this nation and I believe that the words, sincerity, vision and actions of Sen. Barack Obama prove he is the best candidate to lead our nation. Senator Barack Obama has gained my trust in that he, like I, seek to bring a better life to our communities. As I strive to make this a better place for future generations, I stand for a system of inclusion, a system of change and most of all a system of fairness and equality. Senator Obama will provide affordable health care for all Americans, end the war in Iraq and provide the care our veterans deserve, and I am proud to support him today."

Michael Brown, Party official, D.C.

Mark Bryant, Party official, Mo. "If the Missouri primary had been overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary Clinton, I would have felt obligated to support her."

Jeanne Buell, Party official, Idaho Said she backed Mr. Obama because he campaigned in the state. "I was tired of people flying over the state and not stopping." "I promised my support to the candidate, a serious candidate, who would come to Idaho."

Anna Burger, Party official, D.C. "S.E.I.U. members are waging an unprecedented effort to mobilize their co-workers and communities to elect Barack Obama. We are committed to bringing all of our resources to bear to ensure he is our next president."

Grant Burgoyne, Party official, Idaho

Stewart Burkhalter, Party official, Ala.

G.K. Butterfield, Representative, N.C. "In what has become a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, I believe our country needs Senator Barack Obama."

Carol Ann Campbell, Party official, Pa. "This used to be a Clinton city, but I don't know if this is going to be a Clinton city in this election." Referring to Obama, she added, "This is the first person I've seen on the horizon who is a wonderful example for a little black person — to set their goals higher."

Lois Capps, Representative, Calif. "This wasn't an easy decision for me. Democrats were blessed this year with many talented and capable candidates, and I believe both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama would make fine presidents. But Sen. Obama's proven judgment, his hopeful vision for America, and his unmatched ability to motivate millions of Americans eager for change made the choice for me.""As a superdelegate, I have decided to stay neutral in the race for the time being. I deeply respect and admire both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton."

Michael E. Capuano, Representative, Mass. "I wouldn't endorse him if I didn't think he could win in November. I've seen him on the stump and as a member of the legislative body. I think he's shown the ability to be a leader and to put his nose to the grindstone and keep pushing."

Ian Carleton, Party official, Vt. "Vermonters overwhelmingly embraced Senator Obama's message of hope and change in our State's primary earlier this week, and so it is with great excitement and optimism that I pledge my support for Barack Obama. Since the very beginning of his campaign I, along with so many Vermonters, have been deeply moved by Senator Obama's commitment to moving beyond the negative partisan rhetoric that has sadly characterized our nation's politics for so long. His leadership and vision for a more productive and decent future is exactly what this nation needs at this moment in history."

Russ Carnahan, Representative, Mo.

Andre Carson, Representative, Ind. "Senator Obama, I believe, will work day and night to ensure that the U.S. government is fighting for everyday hard-working American families."

Rob Carver, Add on delegate, Del. "I strongly believe that this country needs a leader who can lead and who has a fresh and positive outlook for our future. From what I have seen and heard, Barack has those qualities and that confident outlook we so desperately need!""The more they get to know Hillary, the more they realize she is not the right choice for the Democratic party. On the other hand, Obama is having just the opposite effect. As he continues to meet with and impress the likely voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, people get a real appreciation for his character, his positive message and his compassion and sincerity. He is the Bill Clinton of 1992, not Hillary."

Bob Casey, Senator, Pa. "I believe in my heart that there is one person who's uniquely qualified to lead us in that new direction and that is Barack Obama." "I really believe that in a time of danger around the world and in division here at home, Barack Obama can lead us, he can heal us, he can help rebuild America."He said he wants to avoid creating divisions within the party by endorsing a candidate.

Donna Cassutt, Party official, Minn.

Ben Chandler, Representative, Ky. "In these tough economic times, when many in our nation and right here in Kentucky are struggling to make ends meet and to provide for their families, too much is at stake for us to do nothing. I hope all Kentuckians and citizens throughout the nation will join with me in firmly supporting Barack Obama to lead our nation to a better future and to a place of respect for our country around the world."

Will Cheek, Party official, Tenn. "If they use the power to draw the process to a close with the candidate who has momentum, that's fine with me. But if we thwart the electorate, I'm offended by that."

Martha Fuller Clark, Party official, N.H.

William Lacy Clay, Representative, Mo.

Steve Cohen, Representative, Tenn. "Senator Barack Obama is the candidate that I trust to be the agent for change that our nation so desperately needs at this time. Barack Obama is the agent of change. He will demand higher ethical standards so that the government finally belongs to the people once again, and he will bring our troops home. This nation can be proud to have such a candidate running for president."

Brian Colon, Party official, N.M. "I believe that Senator Obama has presented a positive message of change while continuing to focus on our real opponent; a John McCain presidency and another four year term of failed Bush policies."

Toby Condliffe, Party official, Dem. abroad

Kent Conrad, Senator, N.D.

Jim Cooper, Representative, Tenn.

Jerry F. Costello, Representative, Ill.

Jeanette Council, Party official, N.C. "I know that we've got to do more than just talk about solutions. We've got to get people to the point where they work together and they are involved and are inspired enough to come up with solutions."

Michael Cryor, Party official, Md. "I have been inspired by what he represents."

Chet Culver, Governor, Iowa "I believe it's clear that the American people are hungry for change. I believe they're looking for a president to push back on the special interests, and I think it's also time for a fresh new approach to governing in Washington, D.C., and believe Senator Obama represents this new approach. I do think it matters too that Iowans have spoken loudly and clearly. And because of that, in part, I felt compelled to also stand with him."

Elijah E. Cummings, Representative, Md. "This campaign is the audacity of hope. Obama will be the next president of the United States."

Barbara Flynn Currie, Add on delegate, Ill.

Jean Lemire Dahlman, Party official, Mont. "At this point, after thinking about it long and hard, I would like to endorse Barack Obama." "I would just like to honor the Montana primary votes by saying that I would reconsider if there were a significant difference in the outcome on June 3." "I don't feel lukewarm about endorsing Obama. His leadership potential is amazing, and he has brought so many new people into politics."

Richard M. Daley, Add on delegate, Ill. "Of course, I'm endorsing Sen. Obama. He has made that decision and I think this is an exciting time for the country. It brings a new voice in regards to what is taking place far too long in Washington, D.C., the lack of moving the agenda forward in regard to the quality of life for the people of America."

Tom A. Daschle, Party official, S.D.

John Davies, Party official, Alaska [Referring to the role of longtime party activists as unpledged delegates] "The original intent by the party was to provide some long-term perspective on who should be the nominee."

Artur Davis, Representative, Ala. "What tonight shows, in every part of this state, in black neighborhoods and white neighborhoods, in every part of this state, people believed in this man."

Yvonne Davis, Party official, Tex.

Danny K. Davis, Representative, Ill.

Celita Arroyo de Roques, Party official, P.R.

Lois M. DeBerry, Party official, Tenn.

Peter A. DeFazio, Representative, Ore. "Senator Obama has proven he is able to energize young Americans, independents and even moderate Republicans to support his candidacy." "I believe he represents our best hope of winning in November.""You both claim to be better suited than the other to take on the so-called Straight-Talk Express, so prove it. Run the next six weeks of your campaign against McCain, not against the other Democrat. Go after McCain for his policy positions, not the other Democrat for theirs. Allow the Democratic voters to believe in a campaign that can provide a new direction for this country and stop McCain from continuing the failed policies of the Bush Administration. In the end, it is the candidate who can take the fight to McCain and win that deserves my support and, most importantly, the support of the Democratic Party.""This has never come up in my political lifetime. I have no idea how this will play out."

John deJongh, Governor, V.I.

Bill Delahunt, Representative, Mass. "The election of Barack Obama will restore America's image in the world and also reaffirm our claim to moral authority." "It will enhance our national security and our national interest."

Rosa DeLauro, Representative, Conn.

Arrington Dixon, Party official, D.C.

Christopher J. Dodd, Senator, Conn.

Lloyd Doggett, Representative, Tex. "Whether Obama or Clinton lead the ticket, it will be historic. I welcome the opportunity to work with both."

Byron L. Dorgan, Senator, N.D.

James E. Doyle, Governor, Wis. "Obama listens to competing points of view, but makes strong decisions; he identifies problems, and builds coalitions to confront them; and he inspires people to come together behind a vision of change. He has campaigned like he will govern, by bringing people together and inspiring average Americans to participate in the political process so that we can take on the special interests and the great challenges we face."

Martin Dunleavy, Party official, Conn.

Richard J. Durbin, Senator, Ill.

Mary Ellen Early, Party official, Calif.

Al Edwards, Party official, Tex.

Chet Edwards, Representative, Tex. "It's not Senator Clinton's fault, but the baggage she carries is the divisiveness of the 1990s. People are wanting to turn the chapter to the future rather than going back to the last chapter. It's not fair but that is the reality."

Keith Ellison, Representative, Minn. "Obama supporters were ecstatic about the explosion of democracy we saw."

Anna G. Eshoo, Representative, Calif. "Senator Obama's candidacy is historic, and so is the reaction to it. He has brought thousands of disaffected and skeptical people back into the political process, and he has struck a chord with thousands of young voters. Still more are poised to participate in the days ahead. Barack Obama is a true son of America."

Edward Espinoza, Party official, Calif. "This needs to be over and done with by Memorial Day."

Kathleen Fahey, Party official, Neb. "I think he's the one who could come up with something different in terms of being able to handle the nation's problems. It was a difficult decision because if there is any woman so qualified to be a great president, it would be Hillary. But you either love her or you hate her, and I don't think she could get elected in November."

Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, Party official, Am. Samoa "I have nothing against Hillary and respect her very much for her leadership and services to our country, but I believe Obama's style of leadership and his ability to bring people from all different walks of life and political persuasions is what our country needs right now."

Chaka Fattah, Representative, Pa. "This is a transformational moment in the history of America." Obama "motivates ordinary Americans to accomplish extraordinary things."

Adrian M. Fenty, Party official, D.C.

Charlene Fernandez, Party official, Ariz. "Senator Barack Obama is strengthening the Democratic Party by bringing in new voters, young and old, into the process. I believe Senator Obama has the best ability to win the White House in November and lead this country forward."

Michael L. Fitzgerald, Party official, Iowa "Endorsing a candidate this early is no ordinary occurrence in the Iowa caucuses — but Barack Obama is no ordinary candidate. He spoke out in opposition to the war in Iraq before it started, and today he has an aggressive plan to redeploy our troops out of Iraq by the end of March of 2008. We believe that Senator Obama has the vision to meet the challenges America faces, and that his message of hope and unity will lead us to a new kind of politics where we are not defined by our divisions but united by our love of country."

Stephen Fontana, Party official, Conn.

Bill Foster, Representative, Ill.

Carol Khare Fowler, Party official, S.C. She said she will base her decision on who she thinks is most likely to win in November, and "I don't have the answer to that yet."

Ken Foxworth, Party official, Minn.

Kalyn Free, Party official, Okla. "Barack Obama is a once-in-a-generation kind of leader and the best hope the American people have to rebuild the erosion our collective foundation has endured the last eight years. In 2008, we must elect a President who will restore our faith in the possibilities of each and every American, including the First Americans."

Dave Freudenthal, Governor, Wyo. "The negativity, partisanship and lack of purpose that characterize our national debate and government are crippling this country." "While no one individual can effect this change alone, the change must begin with someone. Senator Obama is the Democratic candidate with the openness, honesty and skill to end this vicious cycle of business as usual."

John Gage, Party official, Md. "Our people, I think, recognize the enthusiasm and vitality behind Senator Obama's campaign."

Alexandra Gallardo-Rooker, Party official, Calif.

Eric Garcetti, Party official, Calif.

Liv Gibbons, Party official, Dem. abroad

Parris N. Glendening, Add on delegate, Md. "I do not have anything against Senator Clinton. I just think Obama would provide the fundamental change we need."

Lauren D. Glover, Party official, Md. [Saying she based her decision to endorse Obama on his lead in pledged delegates and popular votes, she called him the best candidate to] "move our country past where we are now."

Charlie Gonzalez, Representative, Tex. "I think as people get to see him up close and personal, they will be moved and they will be inspired."

Enid Goubeaux, Party official, Ohio "I am endorsing Sen. Obama because his message, 'Yes we can' has inspired so many voters, especially younger voters, to take part in shaping our country's future."

Al Green, Representative, Tex.

Christine Gregoire, Governor, Wash. "He is leading us toward a positive feeling of hope in our country, and I love seeing that happen. I believe the nation faces significant challenges domestically and internationally and Obama is the person who has the ability to reach across artificial divides and move our national forward. Barack is that kind of leader."

Janice Griffin, Party official, Md.

Raoul M. Grijalva, Representative, Ariz. "The best opportunity to win in November rests with Senator Obama. I am proud to support Senator Obama as we move forward toward the nomination. This election is not merely about moving the pieces around in Washington, D.C., but to fundamentally change the rules of the game. I am proud to help Senator Obama work toward that change."

Stan Gruszynski, Party official, Wis. "Senator Obama will bring the change we need here in Wisconsin and across America to strengthen the middle class and standing for regular Americans." "From saving jobs from being sent overseas and creating new ones for our hard-working families, to creating universal health care and making college affordable to all, Senator Obama is a leader who will change America."

Luis V. Gutierrez, Representative, Ill. "In December of 2006, when he invited me to his office to talk about running for president [Mr. Obama asked] what do you think Luis, would you support me? And I said absolutely."

Dan Hannaher, Add on delegate, N.D. "Because Barack here won with 61 percent of the vote in a February 5th caucus, that brought out unprecedented numbers of new voters to the caucuses. He'll expand the map if he's the nominee and not start discounting the states before the race even starts."

Phil Hare, Representative, Ill.

Fred R. Harris, Party official, N.M. "I'll be [for] Obama for as long as he's in the race, unless he withdraws, which I don't expect."

Inola Henry, Party official, Calif.

Brad Henry, Governor, Okla. "Senator Obama is uniquely positioned to unite our nation and move beyond the divisiveness and partisan skirmishes that too often characterize politics as usual in Washington."

Stephanie Herseth, Representative, S.D. "I hope the superdelegates are not the ones deciding. It should be the pledged delegates who should be deciding."

Baron P. Hill, Representative, Ind. "Some have advised me to be cautious, to wait and see which way the electoral winds may blow. I confess that I have listened to those voices and been tempted by their reasoning. But, the stakes are just too high. We cannot continue to pursue the same politics of personal destruction we have engaged in for a generation, some never-ending 'groundhog day' endlessly playing out the cultural wars of forty years ago." "I believe Senator Obama has the capability to change the tone and tenor of politics in Washington."

Mazie K. Hirono, Representative, Hawaii

Paul W. Hodes, Representative, N.H.

Wayne Holland, Party official, Utah "Sen. Obama has helped to energize our State Party. Obama was clearly the choice of Utah Democrats on Feb. 5 and is the choice of the majority of Utah Democratic candidates to head the ticket in November. While it is not only important for me to reflect the sentiment of our Party, I also have a responsibility to endorse the candidate whom I believe will help unite the many voices of our 'big tent' Utah Party and help us build for the future.""I've always been pragmatic. I'll vote for what I think is best for the party."

Steven Horsford, Party official, Nev. "I think that the majority of the delegates — those that are representative of voters of states — should decide who the nominee is."

Constance Howard, Party official, Ill.

Waring Howe, Party official, S.C. "While I have great respect for the other two major candidates, Barack Obama has consistently demonstrated that he's the one candidate in this race who can move us past a '50 percent plus 1' politics and build a new, working majority to deliver change we can believe in. With him at the top of the ticket, Democrats will have a candidate they can run with, not run from."

Therese L. Hunkin, Party official, Am. Samoa

Thomas C. Hynes, Party official, Ill.

Jesse L. Jackson, Representative, Ill.

Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, Party official, S.C. Has said he could stay unpledged until the convention and that he was concerned about "taking away what the people back home voted."

Ben L. Jeffers, Party official, La.

Tim Johnson, Senator, S.D. "He is bipartisan and insists on bridging the difference between parties. That's what I see in him."

Denise Johnson, Party official, Tex.

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Party official, Tex. "Senator Obama's campaign has generated interest in young Americans who have never before been involved in politics. American needs these young people not only for their vote in this election, but for their continued participation in the future of our country."

Hank Johnson, Representative, Ga.

Emil Jones, Party official, Ill. "Barack Obama has spent 20 years delivering change we can believe in to communities across Illinois." "Every time we needed his help, Barack Obama stood up for us, and we need to stand up for him by voting on Feb. 5 to elect Barack our next president."

Raymond Jordan, Party official, Mass.

Peter Jorgensen, Party official, Wyo. "Having lived over 70 years and been down [in Cheyenne] six years, I know we need to tip the wheelbarrow over." "We need real change." "My inclination is to stick it out to the end." Saying you will support whoever wins your state "is a very popular thing to say until it comes down to analysis of who can win against McCain."

Steve Kagen, Representative, Wis. "What I plan to do is listen to the will of the people in my district. As they go, so will I."

Tim Kaine, Governor, Va. "Barack's success indicates his broad support and his ability to appeal to folks from across the political spectrum."

Edward M. Kennedy, Senator, Mass. "I'm not only supporting Barack because of what he has done. What counts in our leadership is not the length of years in Washington, but the reach of our vision, the strength of our beliefs, and that rare quality of mind and spirit that can call forth the best in our country and our people. That's why I'm most excited about the promise of President Obama."

Patrick J. Kennedy, Representative, R.I.

John Kerry, Senator, Mass. "I believe more than anyone else, Barack Obama can help our country turn the page and get America moving by uniting and ending the division we have faced."

Jane V. Kidd, Party official, Ga. "In Georgia, we're making grassroots voter contact our top priority in 2008, and I'm convinced that Senator Obama shares our dedication to neighbor-to-neighbor contact. I strongly believe that having Senator Obama as our nominee puts Georgia into play, and I know that, as the nominee, he will invest in our efforts to turn Georgia blue this year."

E. Lee Kinch, Party official, Kan.

Ron Kind, Representative, Wis. Has announced that his vote at the convention would go to whoever wins his district. "No person, regardless of position or office, should have his or her vote count more than anyone else's."

Paul G. Kirk, Party official, Mass. "After the attention paid to the poisonous and polarizing diatribe of recent days, Senator Obama's clear and compelling message which appeals to our best instincts as Americans is more important than ever. For all these reasons, I heartily endorse Senator Obama and hope my colleagues will do the same.""Once the contests are over, do the math. By mid-June, we must unite behind the candidate who has won the most delegates under a process we all understood and approved in advance. After eight years of Bush-Cheney, if we cannot unite our constituencies behind the Democratic nominee, shame on us!"

Amy Klobuchar, Senator, Minn. "I am endorsing Barack because he is a new kind of leader -- speaking with a different voice, bringing a new perspective and inspiring a real excitement from the American people. He is able to dissolve the hard cynical edge that has dominated our politics under the Bush Administration." "The energy that Barack has unleashed is impossible to contain."

John Knutson, Party official, Me. "It is clear that this presidential campaign will come down to a race for delegates, and I believe that by pledging to support the winner of Maine's caucuses, I will help to increase Maine's importance in the nomination process."

Frank LaMere, Party official, Neb.

Rick Larsen, Representative, Wash. "For me, what happened in North Carolina and Indiana ended up being a game changer." "Especially in Indiana where he came back after getting hit hard for a couple of weeks.""If I need to exercise my vote as a superdelegate in order to have a nominee this fall, then I will. I believe the grass roots of the party should select the candidate. The grass-roots process is not done. We should let it finish."

John B. Larson, Representative, Conn.

Nancy Larson, Party official, Minn. "I just think they are both wonderful candidates. Its been really difficult for me to make up my mind." "But I think the thing that really swung me over to Obama was his wonderful grassroots type of campaigning and the number of people he's got helping him out and supporting him.""They never anticipated that we would have two superstars locked in a dead heat, so I think there is no playbook for this." She hopes a decision gets made "before we have to step in."

Patrick J. Leahy, Senator, Vt. "Many around the world have lost respect for America and the hope that America once gave them. That's a tragedy. We need a president who can reintroduce America to the world and reintroduce America to ourselves."

Barbara Lee, Representative, Calif. "I am convinced that Senator Obama is the candidate who is a real agent of change; a man who can lead our nation in this young century in a new, progressive and positive direction. This century cries for social, environmental, diplomatic, global, and neighborhood solutions to the misery that confronts far too many people in our own country and around the globe. Senator Obama promises leadership to meet these challenges."

John Lewis, Representative, Ga. "In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit." "Something is happening in America and people are prepared and ready to make that great leap." "I've been very impressed with the campaign of Senator Obama. He's getting better and better every single day."

Cordelia Lewis-Burks, Party official, Ind.

Daniel Lipinski, Representative, Ill.

Dave Loebsack, Representative, Iowa "In a field of strong candidates, Barack is the strongest. What impresses me about Barack is his commitment to changing the way business is done in Washington. He understands that to pass universal health care, make energy independence a reality, and meet the other challenges we face, we need leadership that can bring all Americans together around a shared purpose."

Zoe Lofgren, Representative, Calif. "This year, above all, we need inspiration. We need a candidate and president who will summon us to unity, who will allow us to believe that America is a country whose ideals and principles matter and a country whose exceptional history can once again serve as a beacon of hope for the world."

Mary Long, Party official, Ga. "After careful thought, it is my honor today to endorse Sen. Barack Obama who day by day and state by state is challenging politics as usual and engaging so many new, diverse, Democratic voters -- voters who will propel Sen. Obama to victory in November and help elect great Democrats at the state and local level. As a delegate in August, I choose to be on the side of Georgians and on the side of history as I cast my vote for Barack Obama."

Leon Lynch, Party official, Pa.

Patrick Lynch, Party official, R.I. "The spirit, energy, intelligence, vision and inspiration that he offers is what our country needs right now."

Richard Machacek, Party official, Iowa "I think it needs to be over, and in good conscience, I can't fly in the face of my precinct, county and district. The raw numbers coming out of the district conventions really sat me down hard."

Michael Madigan, Party official, Ill. "For people who have had an opportunity to work with him and to see him and observe him, they are prepared to trust him with the most important office in the land."

Mark Mallory, Party official, Ohio

Debbie Marquez, Party official, Colo.

Iris Y. Martinez, Party official, Ill. "I really believe that, you know, we are headed towards a change in this country and I think the only one who can lead us there is going to be Barack Obama."

Jim Maxson, Party official, N.D.

Claire McCaskill, Senator, Mo.

Jennifer L. McClellan, Party official, Va. "My role is to vote in what is the best interest for my party as a whole."

Betty McCollum, Representative, Minn.

Rhine L. McLin, Party official, Ohio "I said all along that however Dayton and Montgomery County went, that's how I would use my superdelegate. I'm going with how the area went. That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

Jerry Meek, Party official, N.C.

John Melcher, Party official, Mont.

Brian Melendez, Party official, Minn.

Moses Mercado, Party official, Tex. "I thought he was the right candidate for the country."

Brad Miller, Representative, N.C.

George Miller, Representative, Calif. "Barack has the skills and experience that's necessary to really challenge the status quo in Washington, D.C. I'm very encouraged by the energy of the people responding to him and his vision of how people can come together to solve the problems that confront us."

John A. Millin, Party official, Wyo. "If Barack Obama is the Democratic presidential nominee, we will be the party of new ideas that understands that a united America will be much better able to address the serious problems facing our country than a divided America. If Hillary Clinton is our party's nominee, every Democratic candidate in Wyoming will be painted with that same liberal, big-government brush. We will also be the target of the locker room jokes that rightfully belong to Bill Clinton."

Susan Montee, Add on delegate, Mo.

Dannie Montgomery, Party official, N.C.

Gwen Moore, Representative, Wis.

James P. Moran, Representative, Va.

Mee Moua, Party official, Minn.

Patrick J. Murphy, Representative, Pa. "I am inspired by Senator Obama's call to service and believe he is best suited to bring about the changes we need in our country."

Christopher S. Murphy, Representative, Conn.

Janet Napolitano, Governor, Ariz. "I think we need fresh voices and fresh messages of unity and coming together. I think he's a new, young voice who has new appeal, particularly for those of us in the West."

Sonny Nardi, Party official, Ohio

Ben Nelson, Senator, Neb.

Nick Nemec, Party official, S.D. "South Dakota is a pretty bright red state, and I think a lot of South Dakota Democrats were sick of being beat around the head and shoulders with the Clinton name."

Mary Jo Neville, Party official, Md.

WASHINGTON -- Jeff Radjewski of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is pretty sure he's backing Barack Obama. Same goes for Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano and Oakland County Commissioner Eric Coleman.

"Probably get the letter out next week," said Coleman.

All three are undecided superdelegates -- a group of Democrats virtually assured of deciding whether Obama or Hillary Clinton becomes the party's presidential nominee. While their support isn't written in stone, it suggests an unmistakable momentum swing.

On Thursday, that shift was evident when former U.S. Rep. David Bonior of Mt. Clemens endorsed Obama. Though he's not a superdelegate, Bonior, who has deep ties to organized labor and ran John Edwards' failed presidential campaign, could help sway those who are.

He called Obama the "one candidate who has proven he can bring the kind of change to Washington that will mean more jobs, better pay for American workers and health care for every single American."

Meanwhile, Michigan party leaders said they would move ahead with a plan to ask the Democratic National Committee to seat their disallowed delegation with 69 delegates going to Clinton and 59 to Obama even though Clinton -- who would have won 73 delegates if the results of the Jan. 15 primary had counted -- rejected it.

Although Obama's 14-point victory in North Carolina this week and the 2-point win Clinton eked out in Indiana appeared to make it almost impossible for her to catch him in the delegate count, many superdelegates still aren't prepared to decide the contest.

Michigan has 29 superdelegates; 27 have been named and two more will be appointed next month by state party Chairman Mark Brewer, if the state's disallowed delegation is reseated. Of those superdelegates, seven have endorsed Clinton, including Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. John Dingell. Two are backing Obama: Rep. John Conyers and DNC member Virgie Rollins.

Of the undecided, the Free Press found three leaning strongly Obama's way, none who said they were moving toward backing Clinton and many who are outwardly or apparently waiting for more signals or the naming of a nominee.

The UAW, for instance, hasn't endorsed a candidate, and the union's two superdelegates aren't likely to make a pick public until it does. The same is true for other unions represented by superdelegates, like the National Education Association, which represents teachers.

Other superdelegates, such as U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, National Committeewoman Debbie Dingell, Reps. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and Bart Stupak, and Brewer weren't expected to make a selection at least until the state's delegation is seated. The state lost its regular delegates because it scheduled an early primary.

"I'm going to wait," Levin said Thursday.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has a vote, too. His spokeswoman said Thursday, "He's talked to both campaigns and it's not going to be hard for him to make a decision, but he's not ready to make an announcement."

Rick Weiner, former chief of staff to Granholm and former head of the state party, said he has a preference but won't reveal it; not yet, not even to his wife. And Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence said she's close but wants to wait for one more primary -- next Tuesday's vote in West Virginia.

It may have been telling, though, when she said: "The numbers have to be there for a nominee."

Lauren Wolfe, a 25-year-old University of Detroit Mercy law student, is president of College Democrats of America, and she's appealing to students on YouTube.com for advice on who to back.

Radjewski, of IBEW Local 58 in Detroit, said he had been leaning toward Obama and "Tuesday really strengthened that." Making his decision official, he said, was a matter of making sure the people he represents know who he intends to back.

"I wanted to support the candidate who could best win in the fall," he said.

Said Ficano: "It's reaching a point where it seems the math is going to be difficult at best and is looking almost impossible" for Clinton.

The Wayne County executive was waiting to work out details before making an announcement.

As for Coleman, he'd pretty much made up his mind that Obama represents the fresh start the nation needs.

"All you've got to do is add up all the delegates from all the remaining elections and she still comes up short," he said.

• Watch Lauren Wolfe's YouTube video

Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:24:29 EDT
    Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too
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.
Clinton’s advantage among superdelegates was once massive and has been dwindling steadily since Super Tuesday, when she was ahead by over 60 superdelegates.
Clinton’s institutional support from within the Democratic Party allowed her to build a commanding lead in superdelegates over Obama in the early part of this nomination battle.
Despite several rough weeks on the campaign trail, Obama has maintained momentum in picking up superdelegates. Obama has outpaced Clinton at every marker of this campaign since Super Tuesday -- after the controversial comments of Rev. Wright came out, after Clinton’s big win in Pennsylvania and after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:38:40 EDT

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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:36:53 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:19:18 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
Zax
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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:12:28 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
Zax
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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:10:43 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
Zax
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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:08:35 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
Zax
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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:06:35 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
Zax
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Missing You All At mybrackobama.com

Zax — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:53:56 EDT

Hi everybody. Sorry I've been out for a while. i've been very busy caring for my 24 year old son. He was critically injured in an accident on his job close to three years ago. A forklift he was driving tipped over onto him. He has been going through surgery after surgery since then. He just recently had another surgery and is schuled for another surgery yet in about a month. Hopefully this will be his last one. I haven't forgot about my blog here on Obama.com, I just haven't had the time or mind set to concentrate on my blog recently. I will attempt to post at lease one blog day for now. Thank you all who read my blog and/or wondered what may have happened to me.
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MSNBC "Obama Picks Up Nine Superdelegates Friday"

Deborah Simmel — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:28:50 EDT

When I saw the day's count it stood at seven. (Sometimes it's good to be wrong!) Take a look at what MSNBC's Race to the White House with David Gregory reported late Friday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24538157/

KALYN FREE, Superdelegate for OBAMA

Hope4Unity — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:19:52 EDT

The announcement appeared on Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog on May 5, 2008:
Kalyn Free, an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee announced that she supports Senator Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination. As a DNC member, Free will serve as a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Kalyn Free, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the founder and President of INDN'S LIST (The Indigenous Democratic Network).
Learn more about the impressive work of Kalyn Free and INDN'S LIST here:
http://indnslist.org/Kalyn_Free

Obama ahead in Superdelegates - NYTimes

jp — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:45:11 EDT

We knew this was inevitable, but it's fun to cross this particular threshold!
May 10, 2008
Obama Pulls Ahead of Clinton in Superdelegates
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/09cnd-campaign.html?nl=pol&emc=pol
Senator Barack Obama surged ahead of his rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton,
in the count of superdelegates on Friday, the first time since the outset of the
race that Mrs. Clinton has lost the lead in one of her few remaining trump
cards.
Mr. Obama racked up seven endorsements in the last 24 hours from superdelegates,
the Democratic Party insiders who are granted autonomy to support whomever they
wish at the convention in August. One, a New Jersey congressman, switched his
allegiance away from Mrs. Clinton, allowing the Illinois senator to pull ahead
of his opponent, according to the latest New York Times count.
The Times’s tally shows Mr. Obama with 266 superdelegates against 263 for Mrs.
Clinton, based on telephone polls conducted with CBS News as well as public
endorsements. A separate count by The Associated Press shows Mr. Obama running
even with Mrs. Clinton. And a measure by ABC News showed the Illinois senator
ahead as of this morning.
The superdelegate count was one of the few mathematical areas where Mrs. Clinton
still maintained an advantage in the race. She trails her opponent in the
popular vote and the total Democratic delegate count.
Superdelegates represent up to a fifth of the Democratic convention delegation,
and have historically supported the front-runner at the convention. More than
250 superdelegates have yet to publicly announce their decisions.
On Thursday, Mr. Obama picked up the support of Representative Donald Payne of
New Jersey, who told The Star-Ledger of Newark that he was switching away from
Mrs. Clinton after thinking through “one of the most difficult decisions I have
made.” Peter DeFazio, an Oregon congressman, also said he would back Mr. Obama.
The endorsements accelerated on Friday. Ed Espinoza, a Californian who is a
member of the party’s national committee, pledged his support in the morning,
along with John Gage, president of the largest union of federal employees, and
Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, a party official from South Carolina. In the afternoon, the
campaign sent out an additional round of endorsements from superdelegates in
Hawaii and New Mexico.
Mr. Obama’s gains came as other senior members of his party appeared to be
closing ranks around him. The Huffington Post reported that Representative Rahm
Emanuel, the influential Democrat from Illinois, referred to Mr. Obama as the
“presumptive nominee” at a discussion panel held by The New Yorker on Friday
morning.
(A spokeswoman for Mr. Emanuel told the Politico that “all Rahm said was that
Senator Obama was now the front-runner, which by and large means, because of the
calendar, he is the presumptive nominee, at this point.”)
Meanwhile, the fate of another significant endorsement in the race may hang on
the interpretation of a pronoun — for now, anyway.
Appearing on MSNBC this morning, John Edwards said he was “very likely” to
endorse the candidate he voted for in the North Carolina primary on Tuesday.
But, the anchors asked, which candidate was it?
In his demurral, Mr. Edwards may have slipped: “I just voted — I just voted for
him on Tuesday,” he said. But given Mr. Edwards’s Southern accent, that pesky
pronoun may have been plural, albeit in a shortened form: “I just voted for ’em
on Tuesday.”
David Schuster, an MSNBC host, attempted to ferret out the truth. “So it was a
him or a her that you voted for?” he asked, interrupting the former senator. Mr.
Edwards then backpedaled, saying, “No, no,” and laughing.
Ariel Alexovich, Julie Bosman and Megan Thee contributed reporting.
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Yes, it's over.

Mike Obama (Organizing Fellow) — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:43:34 EDT
Wow. I am pleasantly surprised by last night's results, to say the least. I believed that the Reverend Wright episode, combined with Bittergate and the gas tax pander, spelled a double-digit win for Hillary in Indiana, and a narrower-than-expected win for Obama in North Carolina. But while most exit polls indicate that the Reverend Wright issue was significant for about 50% of the public, the actual voting blocs did not change much. And this is good news. As Tim Russert put it last night, "after the tough few months he's had, status quo is a win for Obama".

The blogosphere and punditocracy are pretty much unanimous--Hillary is finished, and Obama is the clear nominee. Almost the entire panel at MSNBC read defeat and conciliatory gestures into Clinton's speech last night, given too late for many to have seen (around 10:30PM), and before any clear decision was available out of Indiana. Chris Matthews even referred to the "mating dance" in which Hillary and Obama appeared to engage, each realizing that the contest was over, and believing it is time to being the healing process. Clinton's statement that "whatever happens, I will work hard for the Democratic nominee, because we have to win in November" certainly seems to indicate that she realizes it is over for her.

I'm not so sure. She also sounded some combative tones in the speech, talking about how it was "full speed ahead--to the White House" and making a point of bringing up the Florida and Michigan delegate problem. After initial reports that she had cancelled all of her public events for today (a possible signal that she was mulling a concession), the campaign announced that she had an event set up in West Virginia. Some pundits suggested that her desire to continue to the next round of states was simply based on a desire to "go out on top", with victories in states she is favored to win. Perhaps. But Hillary has always pressed on in the past, even while presented with overwhelming evidence that she is beat. She could still be entertaining the notion that a brokered convention battle would be a good idea. I hope not--the cost to the party is too high, and I like to think that she is a smarter politician than that. I am hoping that all of her moves in the last 12 hours have been posturing--giving a little red meat to her supporters, while secretly contemplating an exit strategy.

The only way to get Hillary out, it seems, is to appeal to her ego, and her obsessive desire to achieve a lifetime ambition. For those in her inner circle, this might mean convincing her that Obama will probably lose this year, and she will have another "I told you so" shot in 2012. This strategy would hopefully dilute the intensity with which Hillary has pursued the prize and make her more amenable to making a deal. For Obama, such a deal might include agreeing to seat Florida and Michigan delegates (since they cost him nothing now), and paying off some of HRC's growing debt. A VP nod, which she would probably turn down to spite him, might help the healing, but I don't think Obama will offer it. And don't expect her or Bill to be too enthusiastic about campaigning for him. They are too petty for that.

The most significant consequence of last night, though, is how the results have finally created a new reality--a reality in which Hillary's choices are largely irrelevant.. She has failed in her last opportunity to convince the superdelegates that Obama is an irreparably flawed candidate. She declared North Carolina a "game-changer" before last night's results, and yet was barely able to dent his 20% lead of a few weeks ago. And rather than an Ohio-style win in blue collar Indiana, she had a razor-thin, next day victory. The remaining contests will likely yield few surprises, with HIllary most likely winning West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico, and Obama winning South Dakota and Oregon.

For the true "deciders"--the superdelegates who will actually deliver the nomination to one of these candidates--Hillary's tiny win in Indiana does not amount to convincing evidence of her strength as a candidate. They are already wary of denying the nomination to an African-American candidate (and thereby alienating a large group of voters) who has won the majority of the states, delegates, and popular vote. They needed a reason NOT to vote for Obama, and the only plausible one that Hillary could offer was that Obama was so hurt by Reverend Wright and the "bitter" comments that he could no longer lay claim to the nomination. The fact that so many supers remained uncommited as of Tuesday seemed to indicate their desire to see that theory in practice. But Obama weathered the storm and pulled out some convincing numbers, with his first win since those issues had begun to hamper his candidacy. To prove to them that she was right, HIllary needed to win someplace where Obama was favored (North Carolina), and she could not do it.

So, Hillary should quit--but even if she doesn't, she will not get the nomination. Nonetheless, she still has the potential to do significant damage by playing the Mike Huckabee to Obama's John McCain--proceeding even though her chances of success are clearly impossible, and existing simply to highlight her opponent's deficiencies with certain groups of voters. As many have pointed out, Hillary will have to decide whether feeling good on the way out is worth the damage that she could do to Obama simply by continuing. She must also decide if she can afford it--loaning herself $11 million and beginning her "victory" speech with a plea for online donations are not good signs in this regard.  If she must go on, one can hope that she will at least moderate her attacks on Obama's character and policies, and focus instead on the small percentage of her message that is positive and policy-driven. She can have her vote of confidence in these last states, but if she goes out ugly, sniping at the presumptive nominee to the very last, she will destroy her own future within the party.

ABC Reporting Obama Lead in Superdelegates

Deborah Simmel — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:15:15 EDT

Just in:
Click here: Political Radar: Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too

TGIF: Three More Superdelegates & A Union Endorsement

Deborah Simmel — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:53:06 EDT

Three more come our way, and one of them is a switch! And a bonus Union Endorsement. Gotta love Fridays!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_el_pr/obama_endorsement;_ylt=Aka47duyZSJSK9YiU1VlpGJh24cA

Hilary's 5 mistakes [TIME.com]

Social Activist/Writer — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:07:01 EDT
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
By KAREN TUMULTY [TIME.com]
For all her talk about "full speed on to the White House," there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey "that has been a blessing for me."

1-stop portal for influencing Super Delegates - Let your voice be heard.

Inspired in Florida - a Recovering Republican — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:14:45 EDT

The longer the uncommitted stay undecided, the longer Hillary can lobby her freinds on the Hill.
Too many want to wait until the end of June.
www.LobbyDelegates.com for the first time empowers grassroots Democrats with the only 1-stop portal for influencing Super Delegates, the nearly 800 top party officials allowed to vote for any Presidential candidate they choose at the Nominating Convention.
Let your voice be heard here

Lets wrap up this nomination so we can start working on Nov!!
YES WE CAN!!

Superdelegates that should never be re-elected

Mary — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:38:45 EDT

Let them know that if they support HRC with their vote that they are not representing your vote. If there are Superdelegates that are currently in office and will try for another term in their office let them know that they will not gain support from Obama's voters in the future!
Secondly, any Superdelegate that backs the idea of a Mich. Fla. count as HRC wants should not be re-elected in their next term. Let your voice be heard and send them a message that Obama supporters will not re-elect HRC backers!
All this tug-o-WAR that HRC is doing is ruining the democratic party's chance come the Nov. elections against the republicans. HRC is a warmonger!

Support for Clinton Wanes as Obama Sees Finish Line

Beverly Jurenko — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:17:32 EDT

Support for Clinton Wanes as Obama Sees Finish Line
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
At a mother-daughter dinner Wednesday in Washington, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, with her daughter, Chelsea, left, said she was staying in the race.
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture on Wednesday about continuing her presidential bid despite waning support from Democratic officials and donors. Some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about the future of her candidacy.
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With the political world trained on Mrs. Clinton’s financial and electoral viability, Senator Barack Obama moved closer to becoming the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party. Mr. Obama spent the day at home in Chicago, after increasing his delegate lead in Tuesday’s primaries — a result that led David Plouffe, a top Obama aide, to say on Wednesday, “We can see the finish line here.”
After a decisive loss in North Carolina and a disappointingly narrow victory in Indiana on Tuesday night, Mrs. Clinton told advisers that she wanted to start campaigning for next Tuesday’s primary in West Virginia, advisers said. At 3 a.m. Wednesday, aides added a noon event there. She was also eager to get away from Beltway buzzards circling her candidacy and feeding off fresh tidbits like the revelation that she had lent her campaign $6 million to keep it afloat, aides said.
In West Virginia on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Clinton said that it was “still early” — even though 50 of 56 nominating contests have concluded — and that the “dynamic electoral environment” could still swing the nomination her way.
“I’m staying in this race until there is a nominee, and obviously I’m going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee,” Mrs. Clinton said after an event in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
As adamant as Mrs. Clinton appeared on Wednesday, several advisers said that how long she would stay in the race was an open question. Some top Clinton fund-raisers said that the campaign was all but over and suggested that she was simply buying time on Wednesday to determine if she could raise enough money and still win over superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders who could essentially hand Mr. Obama the nomination.
Highlighting the financial woes of Mrs. Clinton’s expensive battle against Mr. Obama, campaign officials disclosed that the $6 million in loans she made to her campaign had come in three installments since April 11, with the last two since May 1. Mrs. Clinton and her husband made a separate $5 million loan to the campaign after the Feb. 5 contests.
Mrs. Clinton is willing to put even more money into her campaign, said Terry McAuliffe, her campaign chairman. “Senator Clinton has anted up and is fighting on,” Mr. McAuliffe said. Other advisers said in interviews that her campaign was nearly out of cash, raising questions about what kind of campaign she can continue to run. The campaign said, however, that it was running advertisements in West Virginia and in Oregon, which has its primary on May 20.
Clinton advisers said they were concerned that the candidate’s online fund-raising, which boomed after her victory in the Ohio primary in March and in Pennsylvania in April, had slowed by comparison on Tuesday night and Wednesday, and that her donor base was either tightening somewhat or playing wait-and-see, despite her public appeal for money on Tuesday night. Clinton aides did not send out the near-hourly e-mail blasts bragging about online donations that came after previous successes.
Political pressure on Mrs. Clinton to withdraw is growing. A widely known supporter of Mrs. Clinton, former Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, the 1972 Democratic nominee, announced on Wednesday that he had switched his endorsement to Mr. Obama and believed that Mrs. Clinton should drop out because it was mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination.
The Obama campaign also announced four new superdelegate endorsements, those of Jerry Meek, chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party; Jeanette Council, a member of the Democratic National Committee from North Carolina; Inola Henry, a member of the national committee from California; and Jennifer McClellan of the Virginia House of Delegates. Ms. McClellan also switched from Mrs. Clinton’s camp.
Representative Heath Shuler of North Carolina said on Wednesday that he would follow the will of his district, which supported Mrs. Clinton.
One Clinton adviser said the campaign was struggling to arrange meetings with large numbers of uncommitted superdelegates. This adviser said that at least a few superdelegates might not want to meet with Mrs. Clinton because they did not want to hear another pitch or because they had all but decided to go with Mr. Obama.
Still, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the speaker of the House, was among those on Wednesday giving Mrs. Clinton room to make her own calculations about the race, saying “a win is a win,” in reference to the Indiana results. “The race is alive and well and will continue,” she told reporters.
Top Democratic officials said privately that Congressional leaders were content to have the race play out as long as it did not take on a negative tone. Attacks on Mr. Obama by the Clinton campaign or its surrogates could lead to a leadership push for superdelegates to show their hand and bring the race to a close, said aides, who did not want be identified discussing internal strategy.
The itineraries of the candidates told the story of their stations in the race. As Mrs. Clinton raced to West Virginia and then back to Washington for a fund-raiser, which was expected to bring in more than $500,000, Mr. Obama spent the day at his Chicago home — a reward from his advisers as they intensified their effort to secure the nomination.
Overnight, Mr. Plouffe, the campaign manager, sent a memorandum to Democratic superdelegates suggesting that the race had reached its tipping point.
The results on Tuesday widened Mr. Obama’s lead in pledged delegates by 13, as he picked up 17 more than Mrs. Clinton in North Carolina, and fell 4 short of her in Indiana, according to a projection agreed on by both campaigns. With six contests remaining, Mr. Obama holds a pledged delegate lead of 168, according to a count by The New York Times. A total of 2,025 delegates are needed to capture the nomination.
The Obama campaign was courting superdelegates in districts Mr. Obama carried. Calling trees were organized — with lists parceled out to supporters — to contact superdelegates this week. A separate list was given to Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle.
But Mr. Obama issued a directive, aides said, to maintain a tone respectful of Mrs. Clinton and her supporters in the days ahead.
“It would be inappropriate, awkward and wrong for us to tell Senator Clinton when the race should be over,” said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, who supports Mr. Obama. “This is her decision. This is only her decision.”
Obama advisers said they would proceed through the final primaries mindful of a lesson learned after Iowa, when a dose of overconfidence contributed to defeat in New Hampshire. The campaign ran television commercials in Kentucky, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia and radio advertisements in Puerto Rico.
In a Clinton campaign conference call with reporters on Wednesday, three top advisers acknowledged that even if all the delegates from disputed primaries in Michigan and Florida were seated at the Democratic convention, Mrs. Clinton would still not have enough delegates to claim the nomination.
Phil Singer, a spokesman for the campaign, estimated that in a best-case event, where the Michigan and Florida delegates were apportioned according to each state’s popular vote, Mrs. Clinton would still be about 100 delegates shy of the number needed. Delegates in those states have not been counted, the penalty for holding early primaries.
Despite the accumulation of discouraging signs, campaign officials continued to assert, at least in the conference call with reporters, their belief that the nomination could still be won.
“We think the results last night strengthen the case that she will be the strongest candidate for the Democratic Party in November,” said Geoff Garin, the campaign’s top strategist.
One topic Mrs. Clinton and her aides discussed on Wednesday was how, and whether, the campaign could raise significant new sums when she has relatively little momentum and when so many donors have already contributed the maximum amount, her advisers say.
Even some of her most optimistic supporters were measured in their comments about how well positioned she was to stay in the race.
“It’s hard to answer that question; she has lost in North Carolina, but it looks like she won Indiana, which everyone expected,” said Alan Patricof, one of Mrs. Clinton’s national finance chairmen. “I think she’s committed to going forward, but it’s hard to know. She is the one to make the decision about what she does. And a lot of us have trust and faith in her to make the best decision.”

Carl Hulse contributed reporting.

Who Are The Superdelegates?

Godslovelyrose — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:03:45 EDT

I did some research and found this info for those of you who have been wondering who the Super Delegates are. I hope this is helpful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_(United_States)_superdelegates,_2008
Delegate  State  Position  Detail/Notes  Endorsement  Source(s)  Endorse DateЖ  Neil AbercrombieHIRepresentative Obamapolitico.com[9]10 Feb 2007Aníbal Acevedo ViláPRGovernor ObamaCNN[10]13 Feb 2008Steven AchelpohlNEDNCState ChairObamaLincoln Journal-Star [11]19 Apr 2008Gary AckermanNYRepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[12] Daniel AkakaHISenator Uncommitted  Steven AlariCADNC ObamaNew York Times[13]11 Jan 2008Yvette AlexanderDCAdd-onDistrict CouncilmemberObamaThe Washington Post[14]03 Apr 2008Tom AllenMERepresentative Uncommitted  Jason AltmirePARepresentative Uncommitted  Joe AndrewINDPLFormer DNC ChairmanObamaAP[15]01 May 2008Rob AndrewsNJRepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[16]02 Apr 2007Patsy ArceneauxLADNC ClintonThe Washington Post[17] Mike ArcuriNYRepresentative ClintonUtica Observer-Dispatch[18]03 Jan 2008Carmen E. ArroyoNYAdd-onState AssemblymemberClintonMSNBC[19]01 May 2008Dr. Celita Arroyo de RoquesPRDNC Obamael Nuevo Dia[20] Kitti AsberryOKDNCState Vice ChairObamaTulsa World[21] Anthony AvalloneCTDNC ObamaHartford Courant[22] Joe BacaCARepresentativeofficially DNC MemberClintonNew York Times[23] Brian BairdWARepresentative ObamaThe Associated Press[24]15 Feb 2008John BaldacciMEGovernor ClintonHillaryClinton.com[25]15 Dec 2007Tammy BaldwinWIRepresentative ClintonMilwaukee Journal Sentinel[26]02 Aug 2007John BarrowGARepresentative ObamaMacon Telegraph[27]28 Feb 2008Willie BarrowILDNC ObamaChicago Tribune[28], BarackObama.com[29] Max BaucusMTSenator Uncommitted  Rena BaumgartnerPADNC ClintonThe Morning Call[30] Evan BayhINSenator ClintonHillaryClinton.com[31]24 Sep 2007Melissa BeanILRepresentative ObamaPolitico.com[32] Joyce BeattyOHDNCDem. Legislative Campaign Comm.Uncommitted  Don BeaversARDNC ClintonClinton.com[33] Xavier BecerraCARepresentative ObamaAmerican Chronicle[34]27 Jan 2008Mike BeebeARGovernor ClintonHillaryClinton.com[35]20 Aug 2007Robert BellDA*DNC ClintonToronto Star[36]16 Feb 2008Teresa Benitez-ThompsonNVDNCState Vice ChairObamaTime[37]06 Mar 2008Cecil BenjaminVIDNCTerritory ChairObamaVirgin Islands Daily News[38] Shelley BerkleyNVRepresentative Clintonhillaryclinton.com[39]09 Jan 2008Howard BermanCARepresentative Uncommitted  Jeremy BernardCADNC ObamaSan Jose Mercury News[40] Marion BerryARRepresentative Clintonhillaryclinton.com[41]22 Jun 2007Steve BeshearKYGovernor Uncommitted  Judy BevansVTDNCState Vice ChairObamaBrattleboro Reformer[42] Gus BickfordMADNC ClintonBoston.com[43] Joe BidenDESenator Uncommitted  Jack BillionSDDNCState ChairObamaRapid City Journal[44] Rachel BinahCADNC ClintonAP[45] Jeff BingamanNMSenator ObamaAlbuquerque Journal[46]28 Apr 2008Belinda BiaforeWVDNCState Vice ChairClintonCharleston Gazette[47]23 Feb 2008Sanford BishopGARepresentative ObamaThe Associated Press[48]10 Sep 2007Tim BishopNYRepresentative ClintonThe Hill[49] Don BivensAZDNCState ChairUncommitted  Margaret BlackshereILDNC ObamaBarackObama.com[50] Rod BlagojevichILGovernor Obamanbc5.com[51]10 Feb 2007Earl BlumenauerORRepresentative ObamaOregon Live[52]01 Feb 2008Anita BondsDCDNCDistrict ChairUncommitted  Madeleine BordalloGURepresentativeCongressional DelegateUncommitted  Connie BordeDA*DNC ObamaCybercast News Service[53] Dan BorenOKRepresentative Uncommitted  Moretta BosleyKYDNC ClintonMessenger-Inquirer[54] Leonard BoswellIARepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[55]18 Dec 2007Rick BoucherVARepresentative ObamaTri-Cities Personal News and Media Center[56]21 Jan 2008Barbara Boxer?CASenator ClintonSilicon Valley Mercury News[57]06 Mar 2008Nancy BoydaKSRepresentative Uncommitted  Bill BradburyORDNCDem. Assoc. of Secretary of StatesUncommitted  Karla BradleyARDNCState Vice ChairClintonHillaryClinton.com[58] Bob BradyPARepresentative Uncommitted  Bruce BraleyIARepresentative ObamaAssociated Press[59]30 Apr 2008Gail BrayIDDNC ObamaIdaho Statesman[60]04 Feb 2008Joyce BrayboyNCDNC ObamaThe News & Observer[61].10 Mar 2008Donna BrazileDCDNC Uncommitted  Phil BredesenTNGovernor Uncommitted  Scott BrennanIADNCState ChairUncommitted  Doug BrooksMODNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[62] Roy LaVerne BrooksTXDNCState Vice ChairObamaThe Dallas Morning News [63] Marilyn Tyler BrownDCDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[64] Michael D. BrownDCSenatorShadow SenatorObamaWashington City Paper[65]26 Feb 2008Sherrod BrownOHSenator Uncommitted  Janice C. BrunsonAZDNC ClintonAZ Central[66] Mark BryantMODNC ObamaThe Associated Press[67] Ray BuckleyNHDNCState ChairUncommitted  Jeanne BuellIDDNCState Vice ChairObamaUSA Today[68]11 Feb 2008William BurgaOHDNC ClintonMSNBC[69]10 Apr 2008Anna BurgerDCDNC ObamaSEIU[70]15 Feb 2008Susan BurgessNCDNCNat'l Dem. Municipal Officials Conf.ClintonWRAL-TV[71]07 Feb 2008Tonio BurgosNJDNC ClintonAP NJ[72]02 Apr 2007Grant BurgoyneIDDNC ObamaIdaho Statesman[60]04 Feb 2008Carol BurkeVIDNC Uncommitted  Elsie BurkhalterLADNCState Second Vice ChairUncommitted  Stewart BurkhalterALAdd-onState AFL-CIO PresidentObamaThe Associated Press[73]01 Mar 2008Cordelia Lewis BurksINDNCState Vice ChairObamaWLFI-TV[74] G.K. ButterfieldNCRepresentative ObamaThe News & Observer[75]14 Jan 2008Robert ByrdWVSenatorFormer Senate Majority Leader - officially DPL?Uncommitted  Brendan ByrneNJAdd-onFormer GovernorClintonBlueJersey.com[76]17 Apr 2008Luisette CabanasPRDNCTerritory Vice ChairClintonThe Atlantic[77]30 Apr 2008Ellen CamhiCTDNC ClintonHartford Courant[22] Carol Ann CampbellPADNC ObamaTime[78]19 Feb 2008Margarett CampbellMTDNCState Vice Chair - Endorsed Obama, forced to retract same day due to party rulesUncommittedAP[79]07 Apr 2008Mary Eva CandonDCDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[64] Maria CantwellWASenator ClintonHillaryClinton.com[80]31 Dec 2007Lois CappsCARepresentative ObamaPolitico[81]30 Apr 2008Mike CapuanoMARepresentative ObamaThe Boston Globe[82]28 Jan 2008Yolanda CarawayDCDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[64] Ben CardinMDSenator Uncommitted  Dennis CardozaCARepresentative Clintonhillaryclinton.com[83]08 Dec 2007Ian CarletonVTDNCState ChairObamaBurlington Free Press[84]06 Mar 2008Robin CarnahanMODNCDem. Assoc. of Secretary of StatesUncommitted  Russ CarnahanMORepresentative ObamaSt. Louis Post-Dispatch10 May 2007Chris CarneyPARepresentative Uncommitted  Thomas R. CarperDESenator Uncommitted  André CarsonINRepresentative ObamaAssociated Press [85]16 Apr 2008Jimmy CarterGADPLFormer PresidentUncommitted  Rob CarverDEAdd-on ObamaThe News Journal[86][87]05 Apr 2008Bob Casey, Jr.PASenator ObamaPhiladelphia Inquirer[88]28 Mar 2008Nick Casey Jr.WVDNCState ChairUncommitted  Donna CassuttMNDNCState Vice ChairObamaMN Publius [89]29 Feb 2008Don CazayouxLARepresentative Uncommitted  Ben ChandlerKYRepresentative ObamaAssoicated Press[90]29 Apr 2008Cheryl ChapmanSDDNCState Vice ChairUncommitted  Maria Chappelle-NadalMODNC Uncommitted  Martin ChavezNMDNC ClintonNew York Times[23] Linda Chavez-ThompsonTXDNCDNC Vice ChairUncommitted  Will CheekTNDNC ObamaNashville Post[91] David CicillineRIDNCNat'l Conf. Dem. MayorsClintonNew York Times[23]14 Jun 2007Donna Christian-ChristensenVIRepresentativeCongressional DelegateClintonHillaryClinton.com[92]16 Sep 2007Alvaro CifuentesMDDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[64] Martha Fuller ClarkNHDNCState Vice ChairObamaBarackObama.com[93] Yvette D. ClarkeNYRepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[94]10 Jul 2007William Lacy Clay, Jr.MORepresentative ObamaSt. Louis Post-Dispatch10 May 2007Emanuel CleaverMORepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[95]21 Aug 2007Bill ClintonNYDPLFormer PresidentClintonDes Moines Register[96]20 Jan 2007Hillary Rodham ClintonNYSenator ClintonCandidate[97]20 Jan 2007Jim ClyburnSCRepresentative Uncommitted  Jon CorzineNJGovernor ClintonThe Associated Press[98][99]02 Apr 2007Gilda Cobb-HunterSCDNC Uncommitted  Larry CohenDCDNC Uncommitted  Steve CohenTNRepresentative ObamaMemphis Flyer[100]04 Feb 2008Brian ColonNMDNCState ChairObamaBarackObama.com[101]03 May 2008Toby CondliffeDA*DNCDems Abroad Vice ChairObamaToronto Star[36] Kent ConradNDSenator ObamaBarackObama.com[102]29 Dec 2007Vivian CookNYDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[103] Jim CooperTNRepresentative ObamaTheHill.com[104] Maria CordoneMDDNCNat'l Dem. Seniors Coor.ClintonHillaryClinton.com[64] Jim CostaCARepresentative Uncommitted  Jerry CostelloILRepresentative ObamaTheHill.com[104] Ed CoteWADNC Uncommitted  Jeanette CouncilNCDNC ObamaThe Fayetteville Observer[105]06 May 2008Joe CourtneyCTRepresentative Uncommitted  Bud CramerALRepresentative Uncommitted  Phoebe CraneINDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[106]29 Oct 2007C. Richard CranwellVADNCState ChairUncommitted  Joseph CrowleyNYRepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[12] Dr. Inez CrutchfieldTNDNC Uncommitted  Joseph CryanNJDNCState ChairClintonHillaryClinton.com[107]02 Apr 2007Michael CryorMDDNCState ChairObamaPolitico[108]05 May 2008Henry CuellarTXRepresentative ClintonHillaryClinton.com[109]15 Jun 2007Chet CulverIAGovernor ObamaDes Moines Register[110]08 Feb 2008Elijah CummingsMDRepresentative Obamapolitico.com[9]21 Jan 2008Andrew CuomoNYAdd-onState Attorney GeneralClintonMSNBC[19]01 May 2008Carole DabbsGADNC ClintonThe Associated Press[48] Jean Lemire DahlmanMTDNC"However, Dahlman says she may reconsider if Montana voters pick Clinton in the state's June 3rd primary."ObamaAP[79]07 Apr 2008Richard M. DaleyILAdd-onMayor of ChicagoObamaAssociated Press[111]05 May 2008John DanielloDEDNCState ChairUncommitted  Tom DaschleSDDPLFormer Senate Majority LeaderObamaMSNBC[112]21 Feb 2007John DaviesAKDNC ObamaAnchorage Daily News[113] Artur DavisALRepresentative ObamaNew America Media[114] Danny DavisILRepresentative ObamaNew America Media[114] Lincoln DavisTNRepresentative Uncommitted  Susan DavisCARepresentative Uncommitted  Yvonne DavisTXDNC ObamaTime[115]29 Feb 2008Ralph DawsonNYDNC Uncommitted  Howard DeanVTDNCDNC ChairmanUncommitted  Lois M. DeBerryTNDNC ObamaNew York Times[13] Jennifer DeChantMEDNC Uncommitted  Joseph DeCotiisNJDNC ClintonThe Associated Press[72] Peter DeFazioORRepresentative Uncommitted  Diana DeGetteCORepresentative ClintonThe Denver Post[116] William DelahuntMARepresentative ObamaThe Boston Globe[117]27 Dec 2007Rosa DeLauroCTRepresentative ObamaHartford Courant[22]02 Feb 2008Debra DeLeeMADPLFormer DNC ChairmanClintonBoston.com[118]13 Feb 2008Diane DenishNMDNCNat'l Assoc. of Dem. Lieutenant GovernorsClintonNew York Times[23] Grace DiazRIDNC ClintonProvidence Journal[119]19 Feb 2008Norm DicksWARepresentative ClintonKitsap Sun[120]07 Feb 2008Gaeten DiGangiNHDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[121] Thomas DiNapoliNYAdd-onState ComptrollerClintonMSNBC[19]01 May 2008Nancy DiNardoCTDNCState ChairUncommitted  Arrington DixonDCDNC ObamaThe Washington Post[122][123] Frank DixonORDNCState Vice ChairUncommitted  Martha DixonARDNC ClintonHillaryClinton.com[124] Chris DoddCTSenatorFormer DNC Chairman - officially DPL?ObamaNew York Times[125]26 Feb 2008Lloyd DoggettTXRepresentative ObamaMSNBC[126]20 Feb 2008Francisco DomenechPRDNCYoung Dems of AmericaClintonHillaryClinton.com[127]05 Jan 2008Ronald DonatucciPADNC ClintonNew York Times[23] Joe DonnellyINRepresentative Uncommitted  Byron DorganNDSenator ObamaAssociated Press[128]27 Feb 2008Wayne DowdyMSDNCState ChairUncommitted  Jim DoyleWIGovernor ObamaMilwaukee Journal Sentinel[26]05 Jan 2008Mike DoylePARepresentative Uncommitted  Nancy DrummondWYDNCState Vice ChairUncommitted  Martin DunleavyCTDNCNat'l Dem. 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Superdelegates Run to Obama!

Marie — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:41 EDT
MAY 7, 2008Three Superdelegates Endorse Obama; Delegate Countdown - 170 To GoChicago , IL – The day after Barack Obama’s commanding victory in North Carolina and tight finish in Indiana, three superdelegates today endorsed Barack Obama. The three previously uncommitted superdelegates endorsing Obama are North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Meek , North Carolina DNC member Jeanette Council , and California DNC member Inola Henry. These endorsements brings the total number of superdelegates to…CONTINUE READING

David Plouffe on The Numbers

Carole@www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:22:04 EDT
Barack Obama is only 33 pledged delegates away from achieving a majority of delegates, Obama's Campaign Manager David Plouffe announced today.

The math according to Plouffe:

Delegates in North Carolina: 66 Obama, 49 Clinton.
"This represents a net gain of 17 for Obama, and a chance it could be 19," Plouffe said in a phone call with reporters.

Delegates from Indiana: 38 Obama, 34 Clinton.
"Senator Clinton added 4 delegates"

"Our net is 13 delegates," Plouffe said. "Our pledged delegate lead is 172, the largest it's been in the entire campaign. This is bigger than it was in March and pre-Pennsylvania."

172 delegates overall are needed for the nomination, according to Plouffe, and "there are only 217 pledged delegates left."

"The night of May 20 this will happen, when Obama clinches the majority of delegates," Plouffe predicts.

Obama still led in superdelegate endorsements two to one over Clinton, after the Pennsylvania primary, and despite the controversy over Rev. Wright.

Pointing to the record-breaking turnout last night, Plouffe said, "It bodes well for Democrats in the fall. McCain is losing one quarter of the Republican vote despite being the Republican nominee."

Carole

Not so Super Superdelegates

Janet — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:42:55 EDT

I just read an article from The Hill on the CNN Election Center Hot Topics section in which a number of Representatives reported that they would cast their superdelegate vote based on issues that mattered to them, issues that ranged anywhere from "electability" to views on trade and defense spending. The article states that the majority of the noncommitted superdelegates in the House did not feel bound in any way by the primary results or by what the voters wanted -- that they would vote based on their own views and their own special interests and that ultimately they would decide who would be the best candidate to face John McCain in November.
For weeks Democratic strategists and Party leaders have expressed concern that overturning the will of the people might alienate black voters. Well, in my opinion, if the superdelegates overturn the will of the people because they think they know better than the people what this country needs, black voters will be the least of the Party's problems.  By treating the members of their Party like ignorant children who don't have the sophistication to pick an appropriate candidate, the superdelegates (and the Democratic Party) will have also alienated the newly registered voters, the young voters, the crossover voters, the well-educated voters, the independent voters, the wealthy voters, and the white middle-aged female voters like me who are tired of politicians doing whatever the hell they want.
My response to the superdelegates in the House of Representatives who are considering overturning the will of the people -- if I wanted a Party that didn't listen to voters, I'd be a Republican.
By the way, for those interested in the names of some of the Representatives who did not feel bound to support the will of the people, here's a partial list: Howard Berman (California), Lincoln Davis (Tennessee), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Mike Michaud (Maine), Gene Taylor (Mississippi), and Gabrielle Giffords (Arizona).

Superdelegates Event May 9 at Noon EST

Jo Lee — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:02 EDT

This Friday (May 9) at 12 noon EST, please join a conference call to discuss super.del.egates.us - a website that makes it easy for people to call/write/email undeclared superdelegates to encourage them to vote for Obama.

Super.del.egates.us is a strictly volunteer project.

The call will focus on how we can:

1) Get people to help enter superdelegate contact informaiton (a totally non-technical task and explained on the site)

2) Promote awareness about the site to fellow Obama supporters

The site was inspired by the recent spate of My.BarackObama.com house-party events in which people gathered together to write letters to the superdelegates on behalf of Obama.

Super.del.egates.us seeks to make it easy for more people to contact their state's undeclared or "wobbling" superdelegates by gathering all the relevant contact info in one site.

To join this call, please dial:(712) 432-1680 and enter the Participant Access Code: 540400#

This is a free conference call service. If you're having trouble, please contact me at the numbers below.

Thank you,
Jo Lee
jo_lee@citizenspeak.org
401.338.5445

The Morning After!

ObamaBob NSB — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:03:48 EDT

FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!
I FINALLY woke up to see results even better than when i gave it up last night!!
What a win! And Indiana within 2 points! Amazing!
OUR GUY IS GOING TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUPERDELEGATES, HE'S NOW PROVEN ON ALL FRONTS, IT'S TIME FOR YOUR ENDORSEMENT OF BARACK OBAMA!
Here he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsrgYvx7KJE
Yea, Yea, Yea, YES WE CAN!!!!

Superdelegates math and Clinton's options

Chip Roberson in Sonoma, CA — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:29:01 EDT

After I saw this AP story at Yahoo, I decided to take a quick look at the delegates.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/campaign_delegates;_ylt=Apo5gJ6l1LlSUsiv85lNtd6s0NUE
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_takes_early_lead_in_race_for_delegates

CLINTON CREDIBILITY: A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS

Eric from Covina, CA — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:23:53 EDT
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
CLINTON CREDIBILITY:
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Why are Democrats tolerating Hillary Clinton’s selfish juggernaut to destroy the Democratic Party? You’re sitting around allowing your nomination process to be corrupted, then asking, "Why can’t Obama close the deal?" Open your eyes. The man is fighting Hillary, Bill, the entire Republican Party, plus Rush Limbaugh and the entire FOX news staff.
No wonder Democrats can’t win an election. The Republicans must be falling down backwards laughing at your stupidity. Isn’t there anyone left with enough common sense to see that your acting as accessories to Hillary’s collusion with the Republican Party to sabotage the November election?

Love this one folks!!

ObamaBob NSB — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:51 EDT

This may be it.. Enjoy this Obama'ites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4fIB4ZU9qs
YES WE CAN!!

Barack beats MSM!!

CorpusMama — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:13:19 EDT

After the MSM's relentless attack on Barack using Wright to cause a phony controversy, he will still win soundly in NC.

Yet Wolf Blitzen whines about how Barack is outspending Hillary in campaign ads. Of course CNN and MSNBC have given her hours of free airtime nationwide.
I am just hoping the Superdelegates can see through the following:
A)Hillary buying the vote of white blue collar workers with her phony gas "holiday"
B) MSM's Wright Fight didn't work
C) Operation Chaos's success
D) The countless hours of MSM's openly campaigning for Hillary showing her ads, her speeches, and her husband.
E) Her statement on The Factor where she said "God blesses us RICH people" Yet she calls Barack the Elitist.

Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" THE REAL ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM!!!

Mattsumaru — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:49:42 EDT

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/will-republicans-cause-chaos-in-indianas-democratic-primary/#comment-1025912
Will Republicans cause chaos in Indiana's Democratic primary?Posted: 10:15 AM ET(CNN) –
Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Indiana is a major test for three campaigns: Hillary Clinton’s Barack Obama’s — and Rush Limbaugh’s.
Because many Republicans believe Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, has a better chance of beating Clinton in the general election, Limbaugh has encouraged listeners to his popular radio show to vote for the New York senator.
Limbaugh’s pro-Clinton campaign has been dubbed “Operation Chaos.”
Some exit polls from Ohio and Texas suggest that Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” may have had an impact on results in both states. Indiana “is so red and so Republican,” said Indianapolis radio host Jake Query, that one of the interesting questions on Tuesday “is how many people who are actually registered Republicans will now switch over for this primary and vote” for Clinton. “There is some talk about that, there really is,” Query’s co-host Terri Stacy said Tuesday about Limbaugh’s campaign in favor of Clinton.
Query and Stacy host a morning news show on Indianapolis radio station WIBC. They discussed Indiana’s Democratic primary with CNN’s Alina Cho on American Morning. Indiana’s open primary system allows supporters of the Republican Party to vote in Tuesday’s Democratic contest between Clinton and Obama.From: CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

Filed under: Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Indiana • Rush Limbaugh
I've been trying to draw attention to this since Ohio and Texas. The exit polls showed that over 100,000 Republicans voted for Clinton in EACH of those states -- and that's just the ones who admitted to being Republicans.
Assuming for the sake of argument that that's all there were, without them Obama would have been within 5 percent in Ohio and would have won the Texas primary easily. He wouldn't have had the media claiming he was "losing the white vote" in MIssissippi, and he probably would have won Pennsylvania, though I haven't seen exit poll numbers on that state.
At the very least, he would have been a LOT closer there. The bottom line is that without Rush Limbaugh and his "Operation Chaos" Hillary Clinton would be even farther behind in delegates and would not even be remotely close in the popular vote. This should be reported on much more in the media, but the media want this primary to continue indefinitely and their ratings.
Superdelegates take note: A LOT of Hillary Clinton's votes are stealth Republicans. Any popular vote argument she makes (or any argument about being close in delegates) is invalid.

Obama as an Independent?

Darrick — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:03:37 EDT

Would you support Senator Obama in an independent run if Hillary Clinton steals the nomination? Sign here.

1. Darrick Hussein Herndon

Two Maryland Supers to endorse Obama

Martin Edwin "Mick" from Churchton, MD — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:59:17 EDT

PolitickerMD is reporting that State Democratic Party Chairman Michael Cryor and Vice Chairwoman Lauren Dugas Glover will endorse Illinois Senator Barack Obama this afternoon.

Native American superdelegate endorses Barack

Martin Edwin "Mick" from Churchton, MD — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:53:58 EDT
Superdelegate Kalyn Free, an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee and leader in the American Indian community, today endorsed Barack Obama.

Wolf Blitzer gets Blitzed on his own show!!

CorpusMama — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:25:09 EDT

Finally, its happened.
On Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer:
Wolfboy was featuring a segment on Rev Wright (again) and he had 3 very well known Hillary supporters with him to beat up on Barack.
It totally backfired!
Charlie Rengal(D) from NY and avid friend and fan of everything Clinton said it first. I think it's you in the media who have given this story legs instrad of talking about what the American people want to hear about- issues.
He pointed out that never before has a candidate's church had any effect on the race yet the media has been playing this story non stop 24/7.

He said the Rev. Wright's name isn't on the ballot Obama's is. There is no mention of Falwell or Pat Robertson's inflammatory comments following 911 and yet the media won't let go of this.
Donna Brazil also agreed as did the Radio D.J. from Dallas.
Charlie Rengal went on to say after 2 more clips from Rev. Wright at the press club, that it saddens him that the media (not the people) are still talking about this when there are Rabbis, Priests and people with no beliefs that want to hear about the issues, not about Barack Obama's EX-Pastor.
It was the closest thing to a verbal spanking I've heard thus far and for Charlie I love Hillary Rengal to make it on CNN truly made my day because he is a Superdelegate and frankly, I think he reflects what is really happening behind closed doors with other Super-delegates.
My apolohies if I misspelled anything I just wanted to get this out to everyone to regain some hope.
Now more than ever.
Yes We Can!
AND
Yes We WILL!

Help Sway the Superdelegates - Petition

Sherry — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:41:19 EDT

The website below will allow you to petition the superdelagates to endorse Obama. They are listed by individual states or by House, Senate, Black Caucus, or Red States. Please visit this site and begin petitioning those who are either uncommited or are endorsing Hillary.
http://www.eyesonobama.com/superdelegates/groups/group_47/

Please contact SUPER DELEGATES

LuAnn in Indiana — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:22:19 EDT

If you go to the site "eyeonobama"....you can type in a user name (of your chose) and get a password. I think they send you the password.
Once you get to the HOME page over to the right you will see...contact Super Delegates. Click on that link and it takes you to the Super Delegates page. You can email each by State, Senator, Etc. There is a prewritten email so if you do not want to add more to it you just put your email and click send. Then you have to click ...go back to SUPER DELEGATES.
If anyone has any problems please email me and I will try and help. If you doget to the siteand have time, I was asked to blog for them and I write under the name of "BrownEyes".
Pas the super Delegate idea to everyone. Hillary is killing us promising the world here in Indiana.
She is being so phony and not telling the truth.
Thanks!
LuAnn

Political Nuclear War

Jim Dietz — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:53:15 EDT

Disclaimer: I'm Republican. Old school. I love small government and don't want government regulating morality OR interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.

I know things go on behind the scenes. But ultimately, I am hoping that the Obama campaign is prepared/in the process of political nuclear war.
In the press, Obama is taking a serious beating for his association with Reverend Wright. It is added to the insinuations/allegations related to Tony Rezko. They ARE legitimate criticisms--and supporters of Obama need to be aware, he is a normal person like anyone else. Sometimes with the way the process works, he is held up to be more than that. He isn't.
But to this point, in public at least, Obama has suffered the slings and arrows of fortune without using his own artillery to reply. He needs to. Now. As a Republican, I can say that I will not lose respect for him in the slightest for doing so...indeed, I'll gain respect because at a certain point, enough is ALWAYS enough.
Since the Clinton campaign is making insinuations about Obama and the people he associates with, Obama MUST bring up Hillary's associates and the issues of BIll's administration.
She brings up Rezko and fundraising, Obama has to note the Buddhist scandal. Hillary mentions Wright, Obama needs to mention the rather interesting quotes from her minister. Hillary calls Obama elitist for his degree--he HAS to mention hers...and the $100 million income.
It is not an issue of convincing blue-collar uneducated whites to vote for him. That won't happen...because no matter how much people choose not to talk about it, there is racism involved and Clinton plays up those fear of a black man in charge of the US. Racism decreases with education--and coincidentally, as you look at income and education levels, Obama's support rises and Clinton's drops.
So...I sincerely hope Obama is playing this angle behind the scenes where dirty fighting is not visible. There is an opportunity here to eliminate the "Me First" attitude of the Vietnam generation represented by the Clintons. I hope that choice is available in November.

This Endorsement Says it All

LindaC — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:06:17 EDT

Joseph J. Andrew
(DNC chairman under Bill Clinton)

On My Switch From Clinton to Obama
Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America. I am changing my support from Senator Clinton to Senator Obama, and calling for my fellow Democrats across my home State of Indiana, and my fellow super delegates across the nation, to heal the rift in our Party and unite behind Barack Obama

Statements by Joe Andrew

Mom for Obama — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:22:38 EDT

I found this part of his statement so telling. It talks about the efforts to do politics as usual. I don't know why it is not clear to more people. We must change how things are done. These old guard politicos who are listening to our movement and finding value in it have my respect. In the face of a powerful political machine they are stepping out and stepping up.......

"I say this as a longtime participant in old politics," he says. "I've sparred with everyone from Lee Atwater to Karl Rove."
Andrew points out that he was in charge during a rather tumultuous time for the party — during impeachment and the Florida recount.
"The same words will come out of the [Clinton campaign's] surrogates' mouths to attack me that the Republicans used — and that demonstrates the very hypocrisy of the old politics," he says. "We need to unite the party. You can actually be for someone without being against someone else."

Superdelegates

Siobhan — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:08:47 EDT

This is a plea to all the supporters out there in states like Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, and all the rest of the states who have superdelegates who haven't declared who they're supporting.

283 Superdelegates To Go!

Carole@www.Americans-Away-From-Home.com — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:32:50 EDT
Today, Obama got another superdelegate endorsement, from DNC member John Patrick, a 31-year member of the United Steelworkers. Patrick cited Obama's record of standing up for working families and opposing trade deals that don't protect American workers.

Patrick said Obama consistently opposed unfair trade deals like NAFTA. He said, "Sen. Obama has a real plan to put money back in the pockets of working families by restoring the manufacturing base in America." Patrick is a Vice-President of the Texas AFL/CIO.

249 - the total number of superdelegate endorsements for Obama.
283 - the number of superdelegates Obama needs to win the Democratic nomination.

Carole

a major Indiana SD switches to Obama

Social Activist/Writer — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:44:00 EDT
Jonta Williams <jonta_williams@hotmail.com> wrote:
Today, a major Indiana Super delegate and former Clinton supporter Joe Andrew has thrown his support behind Barack Obama, and released an eloquent letter urging other super delegates to do so as well.

19 to go - Has it come to that already?

Obamanizer — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:19:24 EDT

Thanks to the switch of Joe Andrew Senator Clinton is now only leading by 19 superdelegates. But considering the newest polls, where:
Clinton lowers her negatives
Obama increases his negatives
The diminishing of Obama's lead in NC
Clinton improves her standing with indipendents
...and Obama most likely ending up with more superdelegates
, it seems that at the end of the process, we could end up with a perception that Clinton is seen as the candidate of the people while Obama would be ... the elitist. Scary!

Delegates - Only 295 to Go!

Cindy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:20:50 EDT

After today's superdelegate announcements, the tally is Barack- 295 to go, Hillary - 432 needed.
Seems like a near-impossible "hill" for "Hill" to climb.

That's Just How it is

COL Mo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:53:08 EDT

Any of you who have been reading Robert Nowak and Karl Rove's columns have probably been amused by their providing Barack Obama campaign advice. These two, you will remember, should both be in federal prison for disclosing Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent. Like the Clinton's why don't you two knucle-draggers just go away.
I was amused to read three polls out today on Democrats' Presidential preference two showing Barack leading. The third poll was conducted by that voice of the lunatic right (FOX "news"). It would have us believe that Mrs. Clinton is the preferred candidate. Who are you guys polling? Certaining, not Democratic voters. Yes, I can believe HRC is the preferred candidate of the right. McCain and the republican attack machine have been joining Hillary in ganging up on Obama this week. In many ways it has been a tough week for him. The republicans figure that if they can help stop Obama's nomination, they can't stomp Hillary in November. Not a bad plan.
Just one problem with that strategy -- the Democratic Nomination math. Since the PA primary on the 22nd, 25 delegates have been awarded or superdelegates have announced their preferences. Barack Obama has received 64% (16) of these to HRC's 26% (9). This has reduced Barack's "Magic Number" to clinch the convention to 292. I expect the, as yet "uncommitted" super delegates to break 60-40 for Barack, which would give him 173 additional super delegates. He therefore needs to earn only 119 delegates in the remaining 9 contests to secure the nomination.

Obama backer predicts victory in Hill war (woo hoo!)

Mikeystyle — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:22:32 EDT

From Politco
Obama backer predicts victory in Hill war
By: Amie Parnes and Josephine Hearn
April 30, 2008 07:04 PM EST
Capitol Hill insiders say the battle for congressional superdelegates is over, and one Senate supporter of Barack Obama is hinting strongly that he has prevailed over Hillary Rodham Clinton.

While more than 80 Democrats in the House and Senate have yet to state their preferences in the race for the Democratic nomination, sources said Tuesday that most of them have already made up their minds and have told the campaigns where they stand.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9968.html

Just 36 Supers to Go!

Mac Guy for Obama — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:25:54 EDT

The endorsements keep coming in! All the superdelegates know that Rev. Wright is not running for president and Obama has his own voice.
Regardeless of what Hillary spins, she is losing and the end is very near. As soon as next Wednesday, Obama should be close winning the candidacy. It just takes 36 more superdelegates and it's will be mathematically impossible for her to win.
While we wait for the Supers to position themselves, must read for the day on Politico.com.
thanks...Lee

I'm a fan of good conspiracies...

Jim Dietz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:19:06 EDT

I was talking with a friend last night and we wondered about a conspiracy of sorts. I am skeptical of conspiracies (other than Kennedy in 63...), but the rationale for it makes ruthless political sense, it's cold-hearted, and that means you have to consider it as possible or likely.
Hillary Clinton is 60 years old. Anymore for a politician, that's not very old. She probably has a 'shelf life' of about 10-12 years left. Her objective--what she feels she is ENTITLED TO--is the presidency (because $100 million just isn't enough for a normal, aw-shucks, blue-collar ex-presidential family to live on nowadays...).
The one thing Hillary can NOT have--that makes the presidency impossible--is an Obama victory in November. Obama is young enough that he could easily serve two terms and change the face of the Democratic Party...'change' means the destruction of the Clinton Empire and two terms gives her a shelf life left of four years...not enough for two terms as president.
Thus, it is in her personal best interests to make sure Obama is dragged through the mud and left unable to win in November if he is indeed the nominee. A crippled Obama makes it more likely McCain is elected--and because of Iraq, as well as his age, McCain is more likely to be a one-term president...and that leaves EIGHT YEARS for Hillary and since Obama would have lost--she becomes the obvious candidate in 2012 for the Democratic Party.
That means that no matter what happens in Carolina or Indiana, this party campaign WILL go on to the bitter end or until enough superdelegates come forward and force one candidate or another out of it.
Actually, what I hope comes from this--and remember, I AM Republican...I hope blacks realize that they are exploited by the Clinton wing of the party. They've forgotten which party enforced segregation in the South (Democrats) or farther back, which party actually ended slavery (Republicans), desegregated schools (Republican), and that George Bush actually has more minority members in higher positions than Clinton EVER did.
MY disclaimer is above--I am a Republican. Old-school. Small government, no interference in private lives. And I still support Obama's campaign for president.

Convince New Jersey SuperDelegate to pick Barack!

Jennifer Riggins — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:05:42 EDT

“The challenges we face are bigger than the smallness of our politics.”
–        Barack Obama, April 22, 2008.
Each of you has encouraged a friend or relative (or twenty) to support Barack.  You didn’t begin this by saying “Just go to BarackObama.com” or by telling them to watch a debate. You did this by sharing your passion, your personal reasons and stories for giving your time and your vote to him. One of this campaign’s strengths is its respect for the individual, each person’s story and background that led each of us to support such a progressive change agent like Barack.
Now, it looks like this campaign may come down to more than the voice of the people – it may come down to the voice of a few Super Delegates. Much of New Jersey's political power has leaned away from Barack, with only one Congressman, Steve Rothman, endorsing Barack.
And we’re lucky because we have the opportunity to affect another Super Delegate’s choice. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg still hasn’t decided who he’s supporting. And he happens to be running for re-election against a certain Congressman who ardently endorsed the “other” candidate.
So, we’re encouraging you to take five minutes of your time to write Senator Lautenberg about your story and why you’re supporting Barack and think he should too. Be respectful. Be personal. Be Fired Up!
Newark Office
One Gateway Center
Twenty-Third Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
Fax: (973) 639-8723
Camden Office
One Port Center
Suite 505, Fifth Floor
2 Riverside Drive
Camden, NJ 08101
Fax: (856) 338-8936
Washington, DC
Hart Senate Office Building
Suite 324
Washington, DC 20510
Fax: (202) 228-4054
We like the idea of the physical presence of stacks of letters piling up at his office, representing each of his constituents (maybe one to each of his three offices!), but we encourage you to write e-mails as well at:
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/contact/
Want to make it even more personal, comparing Obama & Lautenberg’s beliefs? This is Lautenberg’s Web site: www.lautenbergfornj.com
Please forward this e-mail to every Jersey Hopemonger you know.
We can make a difference. In this election. And in the country. We can change the future of the world.
Yes WE Can!
Thank you!

Superdelegates should note Obama's Edge with Independents

Deborah Simmel — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:22:32 EDT

We will weather this latest media storm around the disappointing and hurtful behavior of Rev. Wright, by being ever mindful, and reminding others, of our candidate's record - HIS words and HIS work.
I firmly believe the vast numbers of new voters that are being brought into the Democratic party are registering to vote for Obama. It might also be a wise time to remind the superdelegates of Senator Obama's strength among independent voters and crossover Republicans, who by most all accounts will be the deciding voters in this election.
To drive that point home, read John Avalon on RealClearPolitics.com, and take a look at the numbers: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/obamas_independent_edge.html

Superdelegates

Hope4Unity — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:42:28 EDT

The link below is for "Eyes On Obama" which provides information about Superdelegates as well as an easy way to contact them in support of Senator Obama. The signup for the site takes only a few seconds.
http://www.eyesonobama.com/superdelegates/
                                                        Say "NO" to Distractions!
                                                                                     OBAMA'08

NC Governor Endorsement for Clinton?

N. Julio Barthson - E-Campaign Leader — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:48:15 EDT

Last minute action. Please, act on this one fast...

Now only 42 Super Delegates to Go!

Mac Guy for Obama — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:12:45 EDT

Welcome aboard, Arizona Superdelegate Charlene Fernandez Endorses Barack Obama for President!
I think we'll start to see people leave the Clinton camp and start moving over to Obama. The lies and deceit are catching up with the Clintons. Now the Democratic House whip is saying Bill Clinton has morphed into something not recognized by the strongest voting base of the Democratic party - African Americans.
Only 42 to go. I feel more this week!
Lee

Please, sign a petition to the superdelegates,asking them to support Obama!

Loulair — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:43:07 EDT

Link:
http://www.eyesonobama.com/superdelegates/

My plea to the Superdelegates

CorpusMama — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:19:45 EDT
It has become obvious to many of us here that Hillary Clinton doesn't care about this country, she doesn't care about our people, all she cares about is winning. With the help of the ignorance of hate being fueled by the far-right,and led by Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton has sunk to the lowest I have ever seen her go by joing "the vast right wing conspiracy" to destroy the public's faith in Barack Obama just so she can run in 2012. Mewsflash: She can't win now and she can't win then. Mrs. Clinton is so engaged in this process that she doesn't realize this isn't the McGovern campaign in which she worked "for" Senator McGovern so she could advance her own career in politics. In that race, Senator McGovern had the youth vote and the minority vote but the country was still full of KKK, Goldwater, John Birch Society whites who held the majority of power because they had kept minorities from reaching their full potential by segregation and discrimination. Shamefully, these were my own parents; Democrats and Jews who were afraid of everything because anti-semitism was running rampant abroad and at home when they were children. Now we are the baby-booomer generation and we hold the wealth and the power and the affluent white vote our parents held before us. However, we don't cling to our parent's fear because we grew up in an integrated society and our classmates were of all colors, creeds and genders and some of them were gay and getting ready to come out of the closet because society was becoming more willing to believe that everybody had the right to choose their own lifestyle free of the prejudice that blinded our parents and grandparents before. So now we recognize a once in a generation presidential candidate for the first time since the tragic losses of JFK, and Bobby Kennedy. That man is Barack Obama. He truly wants a United States of America. If the Superdelegates don't get this message quickly Hillary will continue to bring Barack down. She will also lose our chances of victory in 2012 because by virtue of what she has done to Barack she will lose the hearts and minds of the future of our party, the youth vote forever. By making Barack lose she herself will never be able to win and she will split the Democratic party for 30 more years. Of course Barack Obama can win in the general election because we are sick of Bush and we want real change. Hillary talked about change as one of her ever-changing messages. However, those of us who know Hillary and the Clinton machine know they really have not changed their ways in 35 years. They get off on the one thing that has kept their marriage/business together for all those years through Zippergate; their lust for political power. For 35 years it has been the goal of both Clintons to seize the white house and be the first husband-wife team to both be Presidents. However this time my generation and today's youth as well as the inclusion of all minorities will prevent her from ever taking the Oath of Office. My question is are the Superdelegates going to risk weakening the Democratic party forever? Bill Richardson got it. Do you? Whatever the Clintons did to help you they only did for themselves. So you owe them nothing. You owe everything to the American people who voted for you. It's time for payback. Now, before its too late.