Huge boost of Supers Pushed Obama over the top
As predicted, Barack Obama had a flood of SuperDelegates to his side on Tuesday.
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From TPM Election Central:
Obama’s haul of super-delegates is turning out out to be very heavy today — and that’s before any actual votes are counted from tonight’s primaries, increasing the likelihood that he will clinch the nomination imminently soon.
• Former President Jimmy Carter, who had dropped hints for quite a while that he was for Obama, and officially confirmed the news with the Associated Press.
• South Carolina Congressman John Spratt.
• DNC member Ralph Dawson, from Hillary Clinton’s home state of New York.
• Massachusetts DNC member Deb Kozikowski.
• Massachusetts Congressman John Olver.
• DNC member Joyce Beatty of Ohio.
• DNC member Jennifer Dechant of Maine.
• DNC member Maria Chappelle-Nadal of Missouri.
• State party vice chair Carnelia Fondren of Mississippi.
• DNC member John Perez of California.
• Six Michigan super-dels, who each count as half a vote: Detroit Mayor and DNC member Kwame Kilpatrick, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, and DNC members Debbie Dingell, Rick Wiener and Joyce Lalonde, and state party vice chair Tina Abbott.
• Florida DNC member Diane Glasser, who counts as half a vote.
• DNC member Kamil Hasan of California, who has switched from Clinton.
• DNC member Ben Johnson of the District of Columbia, who has switched from Clinton.
• Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California, who is defecting from Hillary Clinton.
• Delaware DNC members Harriet Windsor and Rhett Ruggerio, and state party chair John Daniello. Ruggerio has switched from Clinton.
• Congressman Dennis Moore of Kansas.
• Maryland DNC member Bel Leong-Hong.
• Oklahoma party chair Ivan Holmes.
• Congressman Bob Brady of Pennsylvania.
Score: Obama +23.5, Clinton -3.5.
The Obama camp also rolled out a list of endorsements by Edwards pledged delegates, totaling ten for the day.
According to the Obama camp’s most recent math, he is only eight delegates away from securing the nomination.
