5/27/08

Another superdelegate and a hint about banked superdelegates.

This morning Obama gained another superdelegate endorsement from neighboring Wyoming in Nancy Drummond (DNC-WY) bringing his superdelegate total to 316.5 and 1977.5 hard count overall. This reduces the Obama hard count magic number to 48 needed to nominate. The daily narrative (which might be the name I take for my next political blog) has moved over to Bill Clinton bullying the press by saying that Hillary Clinton is the victim again. Both ways Bill is a master of making any accusation because he is above press reproach, for now.

I just witnessed MSNBC former fellow Bloomington IN resident, David Schuster, tear into a Clinton spokesperson when he challenged her on the quit narrative. First Schuster asked the female spokesperson whether she believed the press had for month said Hillary should quit and she answered in a strong affirmative. Then he followed up by asking who, specifically and the spokesperson balked and jived saying she said they were saying the math was against her. Schuster said those are altogether different and said who said for Hillary to quit.

Atlantic.com's Mark Ambinder today stated:
To prepare for that eventuality, the Obama campaign has, for the first time, really, begun to bank delegates. Sources close to the campaign estimate that as many as three dozen Democratic superdelegates have privately pledged to announce their support for Obama on June 4 or 5. The campaign is determined that Obama not end the first week in June without securing the support of delegates numbering 2026 -- or 2210, as the case may be.

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