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Friday, May 09, 2008

ABC now has Obama ahead with superdelegates

ABC News is the first news organization to place Obama ahead in the one category where Clinton has always led -- superdelegates:

Sen. Barack Obama moved into the lead today in the last category that Sen. Hillary Clinton had claimed to have an edge -- support among the Democratic Party's superdelegates.

The Illinois Democrat grabbed the superdelegate lead thanks to a switch by New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne and an endorsement from previously uncommitted Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon.

Those two votes gave Obama a 267-266 lead over Clinton. That is a huge shift since the days when Clinton boasted about a 60-plus vote lead among the party's pros back on Super Tuesday.
Everyone has a different tally for superdelegates. I rely on Democratic Convention Watch. They name names -- their totals are: Clinton 269.5/Obama 263.

It's just a matter of time -- a short amount of time -- before Obama takes the lead on all the sites tracking superdelegates.

Some superdelegates are actually getting their spines.

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