Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Sunday, May 11, 2008 7:24:10 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.
Obama added superdelegates from Utah, Ohio and Arizona, as well as two from the Virgin Islands who had previously backed Clinton. The additions enabled Obama to surpass Clinton's total for the first time in the campaign. He had picked up nine endorsements Friday.
The milestone is important because Clinton would need to win over the superdelegates by a wide margin to claim the nomination. They are a group that Clinton owned before the first caucus, when she was able to cash in on the popularity of the Clinton brand among the party faithful.
Those party insiders, however, have been steadily streaming to Obama since he started posting wins in early voting states.
They are key because neither Obama nor Clinton can win the nomination without them.
Nearly 800 superdelegates will attend the convention. Obama has endorsements from 276, according to the latest tally by The Associated Press. Clinton has 271.5.
How do you get half a superdelegate? 271.5? Does that mean half of that particular superdelegate supports Hillary while the other half of the same person is undecided? I say the other half of the superdelegate must be undecided because I don't see half a superdelegate on the Obama total. Is this count representing someone with a multiple personality disorder?
That's a pretty slim lead for Obama. You can hardly call the race "over" with a four-and-a-half point lead against Hillary. That split-personality superdelegate on Hillary's side, well half of the person is on Hillary's side, is really mucking up the numbers for Obama. He could be a whopping five points ahead if it wasn't for the schizo!