It is another day and of course Obama's campaign gains more superdelegates

Since February 6th the national pundits and political scientists who could count easily ascertained that the nomination would come down to the simple math of superdelegates, a Democratic Party concept to insure that elected leaders in the party had a partial say in who would be their party's standard bearer. Well at that time Clinton had assembled an endorsement cache of about 255 to Obama's early support of about 170 or so, a differential of almost 85. Today that differential has fallen to a mere 16, as Obama gained the commitment of two more superdelegates, former DNC Chairman, Joe Andrew (DNC-IN) and John Patrick (DNC-TX).

More importantly Andrew's endorsement is another loss for Clinton as Andrew has now switched which brought her back to 260 after a late afternoon pickup of Luisette Cabanas (DNC-PR). Clinton appears to have lost a total of at least 20 superdelegates since late January. Also it was announced that Obama is expected to pickup more superdelegates this weekend as the ADD-On process gets into swing. Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that at a minimum Obama will gather Mayor Richard Daley, Barbara Flynn, (D-Chi), and Cook County Board President Todd Stoger. Other possibles are MD's selection of two ADD-On's today, plus South Carolina's and Lousiana's selection of their ADD-On's this weekend. It is probable that Clinton will pickup 4 ADD-On's this weekend as well from the Empire State of New York. The expected divide this week will be 7-4 going Obama's way. Without individual endorsements this would put the superdelegate count at 264 to 251, leaving Clinton to a mere 13 superdelegate lead. There are some rumors floating that tomorrow there will be more announcements, especially in North Carolina. If those rumored 6 supers come out of the closet it could bring Obama within 7 delegates.