Obama Takes Lead Over Clinton in Superdelegates
The Democratic primaries are clearly over. Barack Obama today took the lead in superdelegates leading Clinton 267 to Clinton’s 265, thus taking the lead in the only metric in which Senator Clinton had held a narrow lead. Here’s more:
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.
Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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