Obama pics up another SuperDelegate: Wyoming's Drummond

[Kittycat]

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http://thepage.time.com/obama-release-on-wyoming-superdel/
Wyoming party vice chair Nancy Drummond endorses Obama.

Drummond said: “After much thought and prayer, I feel the time has come for me to endorse a presidential candidate. This isn’t a decision I have taken lightly but after listening, watching and reading about both candidates, I feel that Senator Obama is the candidate that can lead this Country in the direction I would like to see us go.

His position on education, his work with senior citizens and his advocacy for union members and veterans make me proud to support Senator Obama.

My husband was a Marine during Vietnam — he was one of many vets that has VA Benefits. The men and women in the military and their families are giving the ultimate sacrifice now and I support Senator Obama’s plan to honor their service by improving their healthcare, taking care of issues related to combat duty and caring for our homeless vets.

We have two incredible candidates and I will support which ever one is our candidate but as I said back in March I wanted to be sure to represent Wyoming well as the Vice Chair of the Wyoming Democratic Party. At both our caucuses and our State Convention, the majority said they want Senator Obama to be our Candidate to run for President. So with that being said, while I certainly respect and admire Senator Clinton’s tenacity, I have proudly decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama.”

[grantcart]

1. great news

48

[NightWatcher]

2. 48

[John Q. Citizen]

at this rate, SD and MT pledged delegates will put him over the number needed for nomination.

Cool!

[FSogol]

3. Get thee to the greatest page. n/t

[DevonRex]

4. Fantastic!!!! nt

[BlooInBloo]

5. woot!

[mystieus]

6. woo hoo!

[Coexist]

7. cool!

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. k&r

:kick:

[JimGinPA]

9. Keep 'Em Coming - Slow & Steady

K&R

[AllentownJake]

10. 48!

[SharonRB]

11. Drip. Drip. Drip.

This will finally be over next week.

[ampad]

12. n/t

:kick:

[Lucky 13]

13. Drip Drip Drip

One at a time or all together... it doesn't matter. The point is we are winning the superdelegate war. Hillary can't stop it.

[quantass]

14. And yet again. Thank you.

[Hope And Change]

15. K & R!

[me b zola]

16. K&R!

:)

[grantcart]

17. notice how they pull out a single western SD while he is in the west campaigning

just to keep the news going strong.

Nobody has mastered managing the news cycle better than Obama.

[Kittycat]

18. I caught that. Good call.

They're truly masters at this game. The clinton's were never prepared for the way information and news is done these days.

[WyLoochka]

19. Inside scoop on this

Drummond finally endorsed probably because of what happened to her compatriot super, Cynthia Nunley, at the WY Dem Convention in Jackson on Saturday.

Nunley, finishing up a 4 year term as DNC Committeewoman, was running for another term for which the election was to be held at the convention. WY Dems pleaded with her for weeks to announce her position on who she supports for Pres before they had to vote, but to no avail. She was persistently arrogant and obstinate in her refusal to announce.

So... less than a week before the convention she suddenly found herself faced with an opponent for the DNC position. And she lost overwhelmingly! She was stunned. She was so sure her constituents would not hold her accountable for her weasly hiding of her position, on a matter of such great importance, and that they would just rubber stamp another term for her. Ha!

It was a real wake-up call for Drummond - who had been just as arrogant and obstinate about not announcing her position. I'm surmising she wants to run for state chair in a few months and figured she had better get out publicly on the side of the majority of WY Dems - or she would make herself "unelectable" as Nunley had.

Supers are accountable to people somewhere along the line. If you don't like what your state party supers are doing or not doing - fire them by voting for someone else. It works!

[democracy1st]

20. K & R