Barack Obama Delegates

Obama To Make History As First African American Nominee

ABC News | JENNIFER PARKER | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


After a bruising battle, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has won enough delegates to clinch the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, ABC News projec...

Obama Picks Up Three Hawaii Superdelegates

Honolulu Advertiser | Sudhin Thalawala | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics


Hawai'i Democrats selected three Obama supporters to fill its remaining superdelegate slots at their state convention Sunday, including the new chair ...

Superdelegates Endorse On Primary Day

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama has picked up a superdelegate endorsement on the morning of the Oregon/Kentucky primaries. Iowa Democratic Chairman Scott Brennan announ...

Obama wins Oregon, moves to brink of nomination

AP | DAVID ESPO and SARA KUGLER | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Barack Obama stepped to the brink of victory in the Democratic presidential race Tuesday night, defeating Hillary Rodham Clint...

Obama Adds To Superdelegate Tally

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics


Obama has pulled in the endorsement of Washington State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz this morning. Pelz told his supporters, "that Sen. Obam...

Obama Returns To Iowa For Tuesday Primary Night

NY Times | Larry Rother | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics


Senator Barack Obama has chosen to spend Tuesday night not in Kentucky or Oregon, the two states that will be holding their primaries that day, or eve...

Edwards Delegates Switches To Obama

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics


UPDATE: Six more Edwards' delegates have signed up with Obama. So far, one of John Edwards' pledged delegates has switched to Obama: Joshua Denton o...

Obama In Limbo Over 'Almost Nominee' Status

NY Times | Jim Rutenberg | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics


The contest with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton not quite over and the one with Senator John McCain not quite under way, Senator Barack Obama is float...

Obama Delegate Purge -- Slash and Burn in California

Marcy Winograd | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics


Marcy Winograd

Names of candidates, people who had filed to run to represent Obama at the Convention, disappeared, not one by one, but hundreds at a time, from the Party Web site.

Obama Delegate Forced To Quit After Remark

Chicago Sun Times | Abdon Pallasch | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics


Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama's campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was tickete...

Obama Expands Delegate Lead Over Clinton

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 03.15.2008 | Politics


DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up nine d...

Obama Clear Mathematical Front-Runner After Potomac Primaries

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 02.13.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

Barack Obama had never been so close to the Democratic nomination. And this is not so because he won 7 states in a row. Those wins were entirely expec...

Max Follmer

Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Delegates And Superdelegates

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics


Here's everything you always wanted to ask but never dared to about the Democratic delegates and superdelegates. Who are the Democratic delegates and...

Potomac Primaries: The Delegate Breakdown

Campaign Diaries | Daniel Nichanian | Posted 02.13.2008 | Home


This disastrous night for Hillary will have profound implications for the future of the race and, more importantly, for the delegate count. The most r...

Delegate Math Predicts an Uncertain Summer for Democrats

Colorado Confidential | Dana Houle | Posted 02.12.2008 | Home


Colorado Confidential guest columnist Dana Houle pens a fascinating analysis on the potential of a brokered convention. It is almost certain that nei...

CBS: Obama Takes Delegate Lead, Including Superdelegates

CBS News | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics


Illinois senator Barack Obama finished a series of weekend primary and caucus contests undefeated as he bested Hillary Clinton in Maine today, accord...

Obama Claims New Lead

Ari Melber | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

The Obama campaign manager says that he won 9 more delegates than Clinton, based on a pledged delegate estimate conducted overnight by analysts in the campaign's Chicago "boiler room."