Joe Donnelly endorses Obama
South Bend's congressman, Notre Dame Law School alum Joe Donnelly, is the latest superdelegate to endorse Obama.
I'm not sure how the 2nd District as a whole voted, but Donnelly's home county, St. Joseph, favored Obama 53% to 47% last Tuesday.
Also, Clinton has lost a pledged delegate to Obama, according to the Washington Post. "I cannot in good conscience go to the convention and not support Barack," said Jack B. Johnson, who was selected to fill one of Clinton's elected delegate slots "in consultation with the Clinton campaign by the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee." (Oops.) "She ran a great campaign, but she fell short of the line," Johnson says of Clinton. I wonder if the Obama campaign will include this "switch" in their count, in light of the previous fury over Clinton's threats to try and "flip" pledged delegates? (More here, and here.)
Oh, and in other news, there's a primary today. Shh, don't tell anyone. ;)
UPDATE: And now Ray Nagin endorses Obama. Ugh.
Any mention of painting the white house chocolate from Nagin?
Posted by: Gardner | May 13, 2008 10:42:04 AM
The Nagin nod is almost as good as the one from Hamas.
Posted by: Jay Johnson | May 13, 2008 11:08:26 AM
Clinton won the 2nd district by about 3K votes out of over 140K cast. So, it was more or less a 50/50 pick for him.
Posted by: Sean Braisted | May 13, 2008 11:45:23 AM
I love his music! The fact he is voting for BHO makes him rock even more!!!
Posted by: | May 13, 2008 12:54:24 PM
Wait! I thought it was entirely unfair and immoral for Supers to change their minds! And who decided that congressional district results are necessarily dispositive in such a decision? Why shouldn't the statewide result trump other considerations? Or overall electoral math? Or, or, or?
Is it only immoral if a Super chooses to side with HRC?
What a load. I give credit to BHO for pre-emptively creating the meme that the front runner simply must be given the nomination at the convention. Nowhere in American history is such a thing true, but with the help of the complicit drive-bys, it's become de facto Democrat law. What a load.
Posted by: Ed | May 13, 2008 5:23:04 PM
And it isn't true now. What is true is that if these super delegates would like to be super delegates for more than just this one time, they best respect the will of voters.
Posted by: Jim | May 13, 2008 10:47:36 PM