Clinton Picks Up Three Superdelegates

[Kber]

Clinton Picks Up Three Superdelegates

PITTSBURGH – Three superdelegates in 36 hours.
That was the good news from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign on Thursday, a rare string of endorsements for a candidate who has watched one superdelegate after another pledge their support to Senator Barack Obama.


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/clinton-picks-up-three-superdelegates/

edit to correct the link - sorry!

[SeaLyons]

1. Great News!!!!

Love it. Thanks for posting.

Go Hillary!!

[scheming daemons]

2. Key phrase: "a RARE string of endorsements"

She's now back to -2 since Super Tuesday.

Obama is +68.

[GarbagemanLB]

5. Wait, she's STILL down 2 since Super Tuesday?!?! LOL

[scheming daemons]

7. Yep... she had 260 on the morning of ST.... She's now back to 258.

[chill factor]

11. Great point....

Hillary seems to be going backward not forward. CNN said today that Hillary has only a 4% lead in PA. Other polls reflect similar results - only one has her with a huge lead. the strides Seantor Obama makes when he 'hits the ground' are remarkable.

[Kittycat]

6. I read on thepage that one didn't even want to discuss it, LOL.

Off to find the article, and edit to share here.

Here is it is: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/10/134455/167
Also note that she lost a super to uncommitted, and another is wavering.

[walldude]

3. A rare string of endorsements for a candidate

who has watched one superdelegate after another pledge their support to Senator Barack Obama.

Yeah, that's um... good news.. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[oasis]

4. Hillary will ride The Pennslyvania Railroad to the White House.(eom)

[OzarkDem]

21. All Aboard! Woo-Wooooo!

[Tesha]

28. Well, you picked the right decade for the Clinton campaign: the 1940s! (NT)

[against all enemies]

30. I guess that train runs over the most voters and delegates, great.

[oasis]

32. Just get on board and you wont get run over.

;-)

[PBS Poll-435]

8. Wahoo!

I guess they don't know about the 'math...'

:woohoo::woohoo:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. SWEET

[MattBaggins]

15. Could you change that image?

As a New Yorker I feel you should change that sign to read "I love Hillary". You really shouldn't try to speak for others.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. the NYers I know do Love Hillary..and i speak for them...change your thinking

[book_worm]

10. wow! congrats! this is the first I've heard of super delegate endorsment for Hill in ages.

[zulchzulu]

12. That makes -2 since Super Tuesday... n/t

[Barack_America]

13. Didn't she also LOSE 3 superdelegates...

The past couple of days?

Interesting that part of the story isn't reported.

Man, the media really wants to keep this going, don't they?

ETA Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5443902&mesg_id=5443902

[rodeodance]

14. Good on Hillary

[tekisui]

16. Unfortunately she lost two in that same time frame. Net +1 in 36 hours.

4-8-08 - DNC Harry Thomas Jr.(DC)# removed from Hillary Clinton's list after he withdrew his support for her.
4-9-08 - Removed Aleita Huguenin (CA) from Clinton.

[GarbagemanLB]

17. and Obama gained one today: Utah's Democratic chairman.

[jackson_dem]

18. But it is over! I read it on the "netroots"!

[RamboLiberal]

19. I'm not surprised that former Mayor Sophie Masloff

endorsed Clinton. I love Sophie and she's one great lady and was one of Pittsburgh's better mayor. But she is 89 years old! I'm sure she'd love to see a woman in the White House.

[burythehatchet]

20. ...BEFORE THEY ASK HER TO PLEASE PUT THEM BACK DOWN

[ElsewheresDaughter]

23. And she got one yesterday from Arkansas. That's 4 in the past 2 days.

[tekisui]

26. But, she lost 2. It's a net of +2, still not too bad.

[avrdream]

24. Excellent!

Just reinforces what some of us have been saying for weeks, though: Hillary and Barack are TIED!

[Skwmom]

25. One is a REPLACEMENT SD, and the labor guy didn't even won't quoted.

There was a post yesterday about this. Doesn't seem like he was too excited to endorse Clinton.

[Spider Jerusalem]

27. Rather half-hearted endorsements.

Bill Burga, for instance, doesn't seem especially thrilled, and doesnt' want to make any public statements:

For having just endorsed a presidential candidate, Burga doesn't sound too enthusiastic. It fact, he didn't even want to talk about her.

"You not going to make a story out of this?" he asked.

When pressed, he added, "I just don't need to make any public statements on this."

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/04/clinton_gains_ohio_super_deleg.html

And Jackie Speir is a 'soft' Clinton supporter:

The Times asked for her response to the fear among many Democrats that, if Clinton takes the fight all the way to party convention in late August, it will give Republican nominee John McCain more time to consolidate his party base, raise money and widen his lead in the polls.

We expected Speier to downplay the risk of a possible convention fight, which has many liberals worried about losing the election despite the fact that public opinion on the economy and the war in Iraq favors the Democrats.

Instead she replied, "I don't think it'll go to the convention."

Speier, who will become a superdelegate if she wins the race for Lantos' seat, said she expects the nominating contest to end not long after the last states hold their primary elections in early June.

Given Obama's practically insurmountable lead in the delegate count, Speier would appear to believe that either Clinton will bow out for the good of the party or Democratic leaders will put sufficient pressure on her to step aside.

Even more surprising, Speier said that despite her endorsement of Clinton, she would decide whom to vote for after the primary, leaving open the possibility that she'd go for Obama.

She declined to say which candidate would get her vote, but her silence itself was revealing.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_8821893

[my3boyz]

29. Pitiful! They did not even give glowing reviews or her..Perhaps

they are doing it because their states went for her (or will go to her in case of PA).

[UALRBSofL]

31. As usual a positive thread about Hillary turns into a freeper slam

Clinton supporters can't have a positive thread without all the freepers interjecting slime into it. The Obama Camp has a reputation of negative campaigning so I guess it's standard procedure as usual.

[otohara]

33. Will She Successfully Win Through Super delegates?

over turning the popular vote and pledged delegate vote, causing chaos and mayhem in Denver come August?

Stay tuned!

[crankychatter]

34. almost back up to where she was Super Tuesday eh?

hoorah

[grantcart]

35. Jackie Speier already backing off SD endorsement - thinks Obama will be nominee

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_8821893

FORMER state Senator Jackie Speier made a surprising remark on the presidential race Thursday when she visited the Times for an editorial interview.
Speier — the overwhelmingly favorite in the race to fill the seat of Rep. Tom Lantos, who died in February — is a longtime supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is locked in a battle with Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Times asked for her response to the fear among many Democrats that, if Clinton takes the fight all the way to party convention in late August, it will give Republican nominee John McCain more time to consolidate his party base, raise money and widen his lead in the polls.

We expected Speier to downplay the risk of a possible convention fight, which has many liberals worried about losing the election despite the fact that public opinion on the economy and the war in Iraq favors the Democrats.

Instead she replied, "I don't think it'll go to the convention."

Speier, who will become a superdelegate if she wins the race for Lantos' seat, said she expects the nominating contest to end not long after the last states hold their primary elections in early June.