***May 1st Super Delegate Update Thread**(plus why so many for Obama/Clinton today) [View All]

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For more information pls see DemconWatch http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/add-on-superdelegate-selection-schedule.html

1) As previously advised this week will be a big week for add on delegates here is the schedule - please note that 4 are from New York today and 3 from Illinois on 5/5. You would expect 4 for Clinton to be announced today and 3 have already been announced for Obama but will become actual SDs on 5/5. The other 4 Add ons are all from states that went big for Obama:

Maryland 2 5/1/2008 Selected at the State Democratic Central Committee meeting.
New York 4 5/1/2008 Selected during the State Democratic Executive Committee
Louisiana 1 5/3/2008 Selected by the Democratic State Central Committee).
South Carolina 1 5/3/2008 Elected during the State Convention
Illinois 3 5/5/2008 Selected during the State Convention


Illinois has already announced the 3 that will be selected and announced them - presumably to minimize the expected announcement of 4 SDs from NY.


Here are all of the SD announced for today - including the 3 for Illinois that will not be counted in stats until 5/5:

2)DNC JOE ANDREW (IN) SWITCHES ENDORSEMENT FROM CLINTON TO OBAMA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_el_pr/superdelegates

WASHINGTON - A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to "heal the rift in our party" and unite behind the Illinois senator.

Joe Andrew, who was Democratic National Committee chairman from 1999-2001, planned a news conference Thursday in his hometown of Indianapolis to urge other Hoosiers to support Obama in Tuesday's primary, perhaps the most important contest left in the White House race. He also has written a lengthy letter explaining his decision that he plans to send to other superdelegates.

"I am convinced that the primary process has devolved to the point that it's now bad for the Democratic Party," Andrew said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Bill Clinton appointed Andrew chairman of the DNC near the end of his presidency, and Andrew endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton last year on the day she declared her candidacy for the White House.

3)ILLINOIS' 3 SUPER DELEGATES ALL FOR OBAMA

Obama picks up 3 more Illinois superdelegates: Daley, Currie and Stroger.
WASHINGTON--When the Democratic Party of Illinois meet next week to finish filling out the delegate slate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will pick up three more superdelegates, according to Steve Brown, a spokesman for state party chair Michael Madigan, who is also the speaker of the Illinois House.

That's because the three appointments are all pledged to Obama: Mayor Daley --he shares strategist David Axelrod with Obama and brother Bill, the former Commerce Secetary is on the Obama team; Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago), a Hyde Parker who lives near the Obamas'; and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger.

4)DNC JOHN OLSEN (CT)WILL ENDORSE CLINTON

http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2008/04/hillary-to-pick-up-a-superdele.html

Hillary To Pick Up A Super-delegate
By Mark Pazniokas on April 30, 2008 9:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (16)
John Olsen, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO and a super-delegate, is expected to announce Thursday his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

His announcement follows a commitment to Clinton by Bill George, the president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, who also is a super-delegate.

Barack Obama won the Connecticut primary with 51 percent of the vote, but his supporters will have little cause to complain about Olsen. Obama already has a lopsided majority of the state's super-delegates



Will add any other SD announcements down thread