It's official! Obama Catches Clinton in Support From Superdelegate Lawmakers

[babylonsister]

Obama Catches Clinton in Support From Superdelegate Lawmakers

By Nicholas Johnston and Lorraine Woellert



April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has pulled even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials, with a surge in support from congressional freshmen and governors from Republican-dominated states.

Obama yesterday won the backing of Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, who became the sixth head of a Republican-leaning state to come out for him in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the past week, Obama picked up support from first-term Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Clinton, backed by two governors from Republican states, gained no superdelegates in that time.

Obama, 46, is endorsed by 16 U.S. House freshmen to Clinton's 6, and 40 percent of his congressional allies are from ``red states,'' or those that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, compared with one-quarter for Clinton. That bolsters the Obama campaign's argument that he would have broader backing in the general election.

``If freshman Democrats in so-called `red states' and Barack Obama were not on the same page, I would think something is wrong,'' said Bernadette Budde, senior vice president of the Business-Industry Political Action Committee, a Washington-based group that works to elect pro-business lawmakers and hasn't endorsed a presidential candidate. ``He is the highest evolution of what the voters were looking for.''

The race for superdelegates -- elected and party officials who automatically receive votes at the national convention -- matters most to Clinton because she trails Obama in the pledged delegates awarded in primaries and caucuses. Among all delegates, Obama leads Clinton 1,634 to 1,500, according to the Associated Press, with 2,024 required to win; professional politicians make up about 20 percent of the total.

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[SoFlaJet]

1. what do you MEAN sis

you KNOW Obama can't win...

[babylonsister]

2. I don't know about that; this is looking pretty promising! nt