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Kohl yet to pick candidate
Senator, superdelegate plans decision after final primary

By ELLYN FERGUSON • Press-Gazette Washington Bureau [e-mail] • May 25, 2008

WASHINGTON — Wisconsin sens. Herb Kohl, D-Milwaukee and Russ Feingold, D-Middleton, are among the 200 or so Democratic superdelegates still on the fence as sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., battle for the party's presidential nomination.

Feingold has dropped a hint as to which way he may be leaning by acknowledging that he voted for Obama in the state's Feb. 19 primary. Kohl, the state's senior senator, remains tightlipped about any leanings he may have.

The senator said he would wait until after the last party primary on June 3 to announce a decision. In an interview with Gannett News Service, Kohl showed no favoritism to either Clinton or Obama, whom he said were both fine candidates.

Larry Sabato, a national political pundit from the University of Virginia, said late-declaring superdelegates run the risk of being forgotten by the candidates unless they happen to be the one to help them clinch the nomination.

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