ABC: Obama has MORE SUPERDELEGATES than Clinton: 267-265

[futureliveshere]

:woohoo:

About time I say!!

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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.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-now-takes.html

[JackORoses]

1. hoot! hoot! hoot!

[futureliveshere]

2. Wow, not much of a response to this awesome news.

I thought this would take off?

[olkaz]

5. I'm waiting for demconwatch to confirm it.

Then I'll get excited.

[K Gardner]

6. LOL.. I'm waiting for grantcart to confirm it :-)

[futureliveshere]

Yup grantcart and phringdumass... They are the numbers team here.

[redqueen]

17. Also there's another thread about it...

but still... yay! :)

[futureliveshere]

19. Yup, it seems there are 3 of them now.

No worries.. this is something worth shouting about. Though I wish I had seen the other one which was the earliest one out before posting this.

[rocktivity]

3. Well, duh

It was simply a question of WHEN she'd lose her superdelegate lead--I had guessed by the end of this week. Say goodbye to your last piece of leverage, Hillary.

And my rep Donald Payne is right in the mix! CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[ampad]

4. The news of the day

K/R

[backscatter712]

7. Here's hoping...

demconwatch still shows Clinton ahead by 6.5 delegates.

But it's only a matter of time...

[Better Today]

8. Excellent News.

[Bigleaf]

9. So now she only leads in 2 categories.

Campaign debt and racist bullshit.

[tblue37]

12. And dirt. Don't forget dirt. Territory on the ground is the new metric.

Remember grantcart's thread about this?

"HRC Campaign New Metric : Dirt****** McCauliffe 'last night we won 90% of the territory'"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5867816&mesg_id=5867816

[tabasco]

10. Open the floodgates.

Wash Hillary and her filthy gutter campaign into history.

[rocktivity]

13. The superdelegate floodgates will open May 20

when Obama will have the 33 pledged delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. And even then, he won't need more than 134 of them!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[BlueManDude]

11. Are they "hard working" Superdelegates?

[Lisa0825]

14. K&R!

:woohoo:

[dempartisan23]

15. GOBAMA

more great news!!

[me b zola]

16. K&R!

:bounce:

[Pawel K]

18. Make that 268-265 now

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5900838

[Melinda]

20. Yeah!!! Gobama!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy tears. :toast: to us all. :toast:

[TheWraith]

21. Kicked and recommended