Obama picks up four superdelegates; Clinton adds two

[JimGinPA]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/04/obama-picks-u-2.html

A few more superdelegate dominoes have fallen:

• The Des Moines Register (a Gannett cousin of ours) reports that Richard Machacek, a Democratic National Committee member, convention superdelegate and farmer from Winthrop, Iowa, has announced he supports Sen. Barack Obama's bid for the party's presidential nomination.

• The Obama campaign says that Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, will say this afternoon that he too is endorsing the Illinois senator.

• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign reports that Pennsylvania superdelegate Bill George, who is president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, has endorsed her candidacy.

There are nearly 800 superdelegates -- Democratic lawmakers, activists and party leaders -- who can vote as they wish at the party's convention. Obama now leads Clinton by about 133 delegates overall (including superdelegates who have announced their intentions). He and Clinton are reported to be close in the numbers of superdelegates they each have collected. To get the 2,025 delegates needed to be the nominee, the winner will need the support of a majority of the superdelegates.

Update at 12:50 p.m. ET. The announcements continue:

Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., is using this entry at The Huffington Post to announce her support for Obama. (Trivia note: Bill Burton, one of the Obama campaign's spokesmen, is Capps' son-in-law.)

Update at 12:30 p.m. ET: Our original headline said Clinton had added one superdelegate today. She's now picked up another -- Luisette Cabanas, from Puerto Rico.

Update at 11:35 a.m. ET: Our original headline said that Obama had picked up two Iowa superdelegates. He's now gotten the endorsement of Indiana Rep. Baron Hill, a Democratic superdelegate from the Hoosier State (which holds its primary next Tuesday).

[4_Legs_Good]

1. I'm really excited about Capps

She's close to home!

Go Lois!!!

David

[JimGinPA]

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