Superdelegate Update: Obama Gains 3, Clinton Gains 1

[JimGinPA]

Obama continues to outpace Clinton among superdelegates...

Barack Obama continues to outpace Hillary Clinton among undecided superdelegates. He picked up two more supers over the weekend and added one more today in New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman. Obama has now gained six superdelegates since Clinton's win in PA on Tuesday while Clinton has gained two since then (and the two Clinton got were add-on delegates which differ from official superdelegates). The endorsement also means that Obama now has more Senator superdelegates supporting him than Clinton, 15 to 14. Clinton gained one superdelegate over the weekend.

So my overall superdelegate count now has Clinton leading Obama 264 to 244, a lead of 20. This is the closest Obama has been as he continues to eat into Clinton's superdelegate lead basically daily. At this point, assuming things play out as expected in the remaining states, Hillary Clinton will need 76% of the remaining undecided superdelegates to endorse her to win. Since February 5th, she has gotten less than 5% of the undecided superdelegates, so she has some hard work ahead of her.

And just to clarify, add-on delegates are delegates added on in states. Based on who wins where, they end up getting certain add-on delegates. For example, since Clinton won Arkansas by so much, most of the add-on delegates would go to her. So they don't reflect momentum, as in a superdelegate endorsing someone. Some 60 add-on delegates are expected to be revealed in the next week or so and Obama is expected to get a slight majority among them since he has won more states. The add-ons ARE included in the total 794 superdelegate number, meaning the actual number of undecided superdelegates is pretty low now, around 200.

edit to add link;

http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/74213/Superdelegate-Update:-Obama-Gains-3,-Clinton-Gains-1.htm

[C_U_L8R]

1. Three to one

Hillary is losing so bad she doesn't know it... apparently

[bigdarryl]

2. And if you watch the stinking media pundits they act like Clinton is running away with this race

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. I like that ratio.........k&r

:kick:

[roguevalley]

4. they need to declare and stop making this shit about them. God.

[Coexist]

5. One of her reported Guam's will be Obama's,

but she got a replacement.

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS01/804290307/1002

At least one of Guam's five unpledged "superdelegates" to the Democratic National Convention in August has decided to use her vote to nominate presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton.

<snip>
But candidate Sen. Barack Obama could be getting one of the island's other superdelegate votes, even though the national media has reported that vote also going to Clinton.

Guam Democratic Party Chairman Tony Charfauros yesterday said he is about to appoint either Sen. Benjamin Cruz or attorney Mike Phillips to a vacant superdelegate position -- the party's "committee man" position. Cruz and Philips are both Obama supporters.

*** please note when you click over - how friggin' awesome the Obama campaign is. It is a Guam newspaper, and there is a click-through add from the Obama campaign that shows you where to vote. They kick butt. ***

[JimGinPA]

8. Yeah, That Is Cool...

When I looked earlier the ad was for a cineplex. B-)

[BlueIdaho]

6. The faster she goes the more behinder she gets.

That's the problem with a war of attrition.

[thevoiceofreason]

7. Yeh you right!

This bs will die out soon. Then we get back to all the kids getting killed in Iraq, the sinking economy, and the global environmental catastrophe.

[Aloha Spirit]

9. I'm just glad they're MAKING up their minds.

[panAmerican]

10. Awesome news, thank you!