Confirmed: Obama Has 50 Superdelegates Ready To Endorse

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:

Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO), Sen. Barack Obama's Missouri co-chairman and pledged Obama superdelegate, said Obama will gain the support of 50 undecided Democratic superdelegates later this week, according to the Columbia Missourian.

Said Clay: "She (Sen. Clinton) will not make up those numbers. This race is over."

Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw first reported yesterday that Obama had about 50 secretly committed superdelegates.

Read the whole story: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire

Comments

[leftcoastsportsbabe]

08:11 PM on 03/07/2008

This just in, Senator Clinton has stated that since they are "super" delegates they should only vote according to the popular vote in the super sized states... like California, Texas and New York.

[MichaelO]

01:46 PM on 03/07/2008

I thought he said this wasn't true. Now it is? Like a fish...

[genia]

02:02 AM on 03/07/2008

On Hardball Andria Mitchel said that Clinton managed to have Obama's 50 SD frozen....that we will not see the 50 SD.

[Denni]

12:42 PM on 03/06/2008

We can only hope it's over... now the question is, what does she do with her 'Destroy the Democratic Party' playbook. Does she burn it,,or offer it to McCain, for a fee, of course?

[detriangulation]

12:07 PM on 03/06/2008

Obama surrogates need to be wary of insulting Pennsylvanians into voting for Hillary by declaring the race over. It's not over until the resonably height/weight proportionate 60-year-old lady sings. I don't think Obama will win Pennsylvania either way, but he needs to get it reasonably CLOSER. Yes, the math presents Obama with an almost insurmountable pledged delegate lead, which is what technically counts, but the chances of Hillary catching up or surpassing Obama in aggregate popular vote are slightly better (though also improbable). But it's a real nightmare for the Party if we end up in that situation, which as far as I'm concerned would justify superdelegates in overriding pledged delegates to favor Clinton. So obviously Obama has to keep playing to win as much pop vote as possible. Frankly, I'd rather have these superdelegates remain neutral because they're not going to sway Hillary to drop out, and they may give Obama an aura of establishment "inevitability" that no one needs.

[ched]

12:59 PM on 03/06/2008

As a Pennsylvanian, I assure you I'm not insulted by the notion of 50 supers coming out for Obama. More importantly, you can also rest assured that the Obama campaign is taking no state for granted, and will continue to do the hard work of organizing in every state, which is how he came from behind in every state that he won, and how he accrued the insurmountable delegate lead that he has now. Compare this to Hillary, who likes to talk about hard work and experience but apparently isn't very good at actually putting organizations together on the ground, or worse, thinks that she doesn't have to.

Last poll by Rasmussen in late February had Obama down by 4 points. Even assuming a bump for Hillary from Ohio and Texas, do you really think Obama can't close that gap in 7 weeks, as he has done everywhere else?

[BoulderSue]

01:05 PM on 03/06/2008

The latest polls (that dirty word this year) I saw this morning on MSNBC show Obama only six points behinfd in Pennsylvania, up from twelve. I don't know if that poll was taken before or after Tuesday and I'm not sure how much it means. If things have been nasty lately, I don't necessarily blame Hillary, though I regard her as very hard driving and ambitious. No one gets to be president without those qualities. I do wonder about the judgement of her high priced advisors, though. They get paid, win or lose, destructive to the party's White House hopes or not, She might want to have a serious sit-down with herself and consider what some of them are advising, what are their motives, what are her true aims for this country and how can they best be accomplished, whether she becomes president or not.

[DennyCrane]

09:48 AM on 03/06/2008

I really hope this is true. I just wonder why they're waiting. It's already Thursday. They should've endorsed before March 5. These politicians who wait to see how a candidate does in an election before endorsing have no guts. If the person is the best person for the job, then endorse. Don't wait for the voters to tell you whether or not to endorse.

[Lalo]

08:47 AM on 03/06/2008

If he really has 50 more superdelegates, why don't they come out so we can end this thing?

Terry McAuliffe apparently said they won't come out anymore after the Obama's Ohio and Texas bomb.

[Shorty155]

12:27 PM on 03/06/2008

They won't come out because it's not true---just another Obama tactic---coming out with a story and then three days later saying he didn't say it or didn't know about it. I think this time maybe the press will call him on it. Let us wait until the voters are done having their say.

[Seattlelite]

02:08 AM on 03/06/2008

Hillary's tactics the pass week, she deserves to lose. Many of us are sick and tired of the dirty trick politician winning. All you heard on the news today is who has crap on who to win. This is whats so seriously wrong with our system, it's nothing more than a dirty fight game. Sickening. People claim they wanted to rid WA of the status quo dirty trick politicians -- so why is Hillary still in the race is my question, has she just not stooped low enough yet? How much more status quo does it get than her and Bill Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton and you expect something to change, your nuts! . She's only hanging on because the "old" people are more comfortable with the status quo. Well they had their presidents, it's time the under 50's had theirs.

[skylinepro]

02:08 AM on 03/06/2008

Damn right it will get ugly. No Democrat does ugly like the Clintons. It's that same "win at any cost" attitude that Karl Rove made famous. Hillary shows the same judgment and unchained ego of her husband that threw his Presidency and his party under the bus for the sake of a blowjob. The Clinton selfishness has destroyed the party before and they are on their way to do it again. Is there any wonder why Rush Limbaugh is asking his legions to vote for Hillary? Vote Hillary = Get McCain.

[Stax]

12:15 AM on 03/06/2008

Said Clay: "She (Sen. Clinton) will not make up those numbers. This race is over."

oh, snap.

[Tariqahmed]

11:12 PM on 03/05/2008

My patriotic salute to these 50 Superdelegates who will endorse OBAMA 2008..
Obama is a prize. Such persons are born once maybe in 2 or 3 ceturies.
Please look at him,listen to him and know about him.
He need to be rewarded. If we disregard Mr.Obama's well earned right to
the nomination for Democratic candididate for the President2008,
then you cannot say to any African-youth, go to his level
of achievement ( HARVARD UNIVERSITY) and not be rewarded.
He is leading in delegates& POPULAR VOTES. Party said MI and FL are no go--Clinton defied it,
Obama obeyed the party.
Superdelegates and rest undecideds must ENDORSE OBAMA.
My precinct in WA Caucus overwhelmingly voted for OBAMA and I live in a richer, educated, Microsoft community next to Redmond WA.

[ghostwriter5]

07:27 AM on 03/06/2008

Your sentiment is fine, but the facts are wrong--Clinton did not violate the rules. she did not campaign in those states--only Obama ran ads in Florida.

[kingshmoopy]

07:37 AM on 03/06/2008

Actually, ghost, your facts are wrong. He did not campaign in FL. He was running National ads that ran in Florida because they were on networks. This is not running in FL, this is running a National campaign.

[HowardRoarke]

11:03 PM on 03/05/2008

Before the Clinton supporters whine, remember you're the ones who keep telling us the superdelegates don't have to respect the elected delegate winner, there are no rules on what they can do, they exist to make decisions to make the party stronger, yada yada yada

It is perfectly consistent for Obama supporters to support this action, because they ARE supporting the elected delegate winner, and it will make the party stronger.

[KDH]

11:57 PM on 03/05/2008

Nobody's whining here. Hillary will get them all over to her side, eventually. Maybe as soon as 1 or 2 months.....maybe during the Rezco trial? Stay tuned...it's gonna get ugly.

[kingshmoopy]

08:03 AM on 03/06/2008

The Rezco thing is tired, it is time to give that one up. Obama made a "boneheaded" decision, but he is not guilty of anything illegal.

If there were anything dirty in Obama's background you can bet the farm that Clinton's campaign would have found it and used it during her "kichen sink" attacks. Instead, she had to resort to fearmongering (noooo, he's not a Muslim, as far as I know . . . ), her 3 am ads, which are a prime example of nasty politics, her statement that McCain, essentially, would be a better President than Obama because of his experience, and her own assertion that she actually has the foreign policy experience to be President.

Meanwhile, we have yet to find out what, exactly, qualifies her as having all this valuable foreign policy experience. She never had a security clearance while she was first lady, which means she could not have, legally, participated in meetings or negotiations.

And, we are still waiting for those 2006 tax returns. Not 2007, 2006. Why is it that she can't just call her accountant, why not release them and put to rest any doubts that she has something to hide in there?

[JTBKLYN]

04:29 PM on 03/06/2008

....and they'll switch back as soon as the Peter Paul trial starts hitting the MSM.