UPDATED: Big day for Obama on the pledged delegate front. He picked up nine seven delegates at the Iowa county conventions while it looks like Clinton lost one. Also, in California, he got five additional delegates and Hillary got two more.
Washington Post has details:
Sen. Barack Obama picked up nine more pledged delegates in Iowa, his presidential campaign said late Saturday night, as thousands of Democrats took part in county conventions.Bottom line is that Hillary Clinton is still losing.
All but one of the delegates had been among the 14 won Jan. 3 by former senator John Edwards, who has since dropped out of the Democratic presidential race. Election-night projections showed Obama getting 16 delegates and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 15.
With the other six standing firm for Edwards at the county conventions, Obama's camp claimed 25 delegates from Iowa to 14 for Clinton.
"This is a very significant improvement for us," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters of the Iowa result. "We both fought as hard as we could here."
Plouffe said Obama's gains included blue-collar counties where he had finished third in the January caucuses.
If the Iowa numbers hold at the June 14 state convention, which sends delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August, Obama will have gained more than half of the state's delegates. On Jan. 3, he was backed by 39 percent of caucusgoers, compared with 30 percent for Edwards and 29 percent for Clinton.
The Associated Press reported late Saturday that, in final counts from California's Feb. 5 primary, Clinton picked up two more pledged delegates, and Obama added five. According to AP's count, the Iowa and California results give Obama a national lead of 119 delegates over Clinton.
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