Another Superdelegate for Obama — Dayton Ohio Mayor Rhine McLin endorses Obama

[NYCGirl]

http://208.122.14.138/thefield/?p=840

This should raise some eyebrows (and cut against the wrongheaded presumption that Clinton’s symbolic victories last night will stem the flow of superdelegates to Obama)…

Dayton, Ohio Mayor (and superdelegate) Rhine McLin today endorsed Obama:

Mirroring the unofficial results of the Democratic Presidential race in Montgomery County, Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin today announced her endorsement of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

Despite a win statewide by New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Montgomery County, the results told a different tale with Obama beating Clinton by over 10,000 votes.

In a morning interview on CNN, McLin said the decision of Dayton and Montgomery County voters would determine how she used her superdelegate vote.

(Is there anybody else out there that senses that the fact that the Clinton campaign didn’t go quietly into the night last night may push more superdelegates out of the closet to declare for her rival?)

[SoFlaJet]

1. 47 to go

off the list of 50-2 yesterday and this one today

[jlake]

4. lol. some people will believe anything.

[damonm]

12. Pot, meet kettle.

[jsamuel]

2. So when Obama wins a state, superdelegates are supposed to vote with the state, but when Obama loses

a state, they are supposed to vote with their local constituents?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. I suspect...

that she wanted to make sure she'd be on the winning side. Coattails, and all that.

[RoadRage]

9. We all have our opinions on how they should vote..

but it obviously carries no weight.

I'd happily "trade in" the superdelegtes in areas Obama lost for those who have endoresed Clinton in areas that he won. She can have Kennedy.. but I think there are quite a few we'd get back for that trade.

But, it's all talk - these guys are going to do what they want anyway.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Kick!

Thanks Mayor McLin! :applause:

[groovedaddy]

5. Why did she wait until the day after her state's primary to endorse him? n.t

[pampango]

22. She had previously stated that she would support whoever carried Dayton. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. I think they'll start coming out for Obama even faster now, yes.

[GainesT1958]

7. Oh, she'll get a few "S-D" committments out of them...

But Obama will get more. Why? Because they sense it would be a strategically auspicious time to go ahead and declare for him, to prove he's still the one with the inside track to the nomination. Their endorsements will also serve to prove he'd be a far stronger candidate against McCain.

B-)

[goldcanyonaz]

10. Wow, fuck the will of the people, we'll just endorse who lost our state.

Kingmaker comes to mind.

[totodeinhere]

14. If all of the supers from states Obama has won....

endorse him and all of the supers from states Clinton has won endorse her, then Obama gets a majority of the supers. If you want to play it that way that's fine with me.

But it seems that to a lot of Clinton supporters it's fine when supers like Senators Murray and Cantwell support Clinton even though Obama won their state (Washington,) yet when it's the other way around it's not OK. All I'm asking from Clinton supporters is some consistency.

[catgirl]

16. He overwhelmingly won the county

The will of the people have been with Obama, and Clinton could care
less.

[totodeinhere]

18. Right.

Perhaps that super delegate was reflecting the will of her local constituents, not the state wide results.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

19. What ignorance. This endorsement is the will of the people there.

53% - 46%

Educate yourself: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#OHDEMMAPprimary

[Zachstar]

20. Nice try Hillbot

Go cry somewhere else. No more Mr nice guy! The party allows this and it has happened!

Looks like the flow of supers towards obama has started. Granted it likely wont be all at once. However, now that Obama is on the game again and hopefully will expose Clinton for what she is. The supers want to be on the winning side of this.

Now don't yall wish Clinton ran a good clean race. Too late now!

[goldcanyonaz]

24. Thanks Obamabot.

:hug:

[bleowheels]

11. Duck, here come the bitter Hillbots. Hillary wants to poach pledged delegates...

but how dare a super delegate from Ohio choose Obama. The effing hypocracy.

[Metric System]

13. She seems to be a great person. I'm up here in Canada right now and I saw the Mayor

interviewed yesterday on CBC Newsworld early in the day before the results were in. She said that she was staying neutral and would vote the way her constituents vote later that night. Her reason for doing so is that she is the head of the Ohio Democratic Party and she wanted to stay neutral. She said that both are great candidates and she had harsh words for super-delegates who've endorsed one candidate only to later switch to another depending on which way the wind blows. She said she wouldn't want that type of person in her corner.

[Scurrilous]

15. Good news!

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

17. Obama's not going quietly into

the night and there's no reason his millions of supporters should, either. The reason Obama is our choice is to get rid of the status quo in DC..we are the rebels, the renegrades who keep on fightin' only we fight with facts..not making up shit about hilary. There's enough damn dirty facts on hilary.

[Rex_Goodheart]

21. She's black. Who would have guessed it?

[NYCGirl]

23. And your point is?

(As if I didn't know.)

[anigbrowl]

25. Yep. Can't trust dem darkies!

Apologies to African-American readers. I hope the satirical meaning is self-explanatory, please PM me if not.

[writes3000]

26. This post exemplifies exactly what I cannot stand about the Clinton supporters

It's disgusting and obnoxious.

I would never assume that all women would vote for Hillary just because they're women. What an insult to women that would be.

I know all Clinton supporters don't do this shit but I'm seeing more and more of it.

[NYCGirl]

27. Waiting to know what the point of your post is. NT