The Superdelegate Tally
The Caucus (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Today's superdelegate scorecard.
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Tonight's the Night
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
That long-predicted flood of super-delegates has finally arrived. In our feature to the right you can see the link to Eric Kleefeld's running count of Obama's delegate total for today, pre-primaries. As of 5:36 PM on the East Coast, he's...
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Jimmy Carter for Obama
Slog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The all-day series of Obama endorsements keeps rolling right along, with Jimmy Carter the latest to announce. (Full list with updates here .) Obama is, as of this moment, about 30 delegates away from the 2,118 he needs to win the nomination.
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Obama Picks Up Super-Delegates
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The Barack Obama campaign claims they are 10 delegates away from clinching the nomination. TPM Election Central has a tally of recent super-delegates that just pledged their votes for Obama. • Former President Jimmy Carter, who had dropped hints for quite a while that he was for Obama, and officially confirmed the news with the Associated Press. • South Carolina Congressman John Spratt. • DNC member...
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Huge boost of Supers Pushed Obama over the top
Where's the Outrage? (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
As predicted, Barack Obama had a flood of SuperDelegates to his side on Tuesday. ——— From TPM Election Central: Obama’s haul of super-delegates is turning out out to be very heavy today — and that’s before any actual votes are counted from tonight’s primaries, increasing the likelihood that he will clinch the nomination imminently soon. • Former President Jimmy [...]
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Delaware Getting in Line Behind Barack Obama
TommyWonk (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
TPM Election Central reports that super delegates announcing their support for Barack Obama today include Delaware DNC members Harriet Smith Windsor and Rhett Ruggerio (who is switching from Clinton), and state party chair John Daniello. The New York Times reports that Tom Carper was among the senators talking about endorsing Obama at a meeting last night in Washington.
