Obama Catches Clinton In Superdelegate Lawmakers
Barack Obama has pulled even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials, with a surge in support from congressional freshmen and ...
Barack Obama has pulled even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials, with a surge in support from congressional freshmen and ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
In recent days, aides to Sen. Hillary Clinton have increasingly pressed the idea that the popular vote in the Democratic primary should be a guide for...
Erin Medlicott | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Being a superdelegate from New Hampshire, (with their "first in the nation primary" January 8th) AND having declared your support of Sen. Hillary Clin...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Gregory Roberts | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
With the anxiety level among Democrats ratcheting up daily at the prospect of a bloody presidential nomination struggle, some Washington state superde...
NY Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
To listen to some of the discussion about the Democratic presidential contest these days, one would think that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton should h...
NY Times | Katherine Seelye | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judg...
NY Times | Patrick Healy | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Ever since Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton started running for president, her team has argued that she is more electable than Senator Barack Obama: mor...
Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., expressed support of a proposal floated by Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen to hold a superdelegate primary in an interview wit...
MSNBC News | Mark Murray | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
By our count, the Clinton campaign hasn't publicly announced the support of a new superdelegate since just after February 5. Indeed, since Super Tuesd...
New York Times | Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny | Posted 03.15.2008 | Politics
Lacking a clear route to the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee, the party's uncommitted superdelegates say they are growing increasingly ...
Bloomberg | Julianna Goldman and Catherine Dodge | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has pulled almost even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials and has cut into her lead among the other superdel...
Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
So CW is that last week was the "week from hell" for Obama, and given that he could've closed this thing out and didn't, we can stipulate that it coul...
Politico | Mike Allen and Ben Smith | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
A behind-the-scenes battle broke out late Tuesday over superdelegates who had secretly committed to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), with Clinton campaign ...
Washington Post's The Trail | Peter Baker | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Forget Wii. The real computer game for those of us mesmerized by Ohio and Texas today is located over on the site of our corporate cousin, Slate. As D...
Politico | Josephine Hearn | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
African-American superdelegates said Thursday that they'll stand up against threats, intimidation and "Uncle Tom" smears rather than switch their supp...
Off The Bus | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home
HuffPost's OffTheBus members produced these superdelegate profiles as part of its Superdelegate Investigation. You can find all profiles here. Marily...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
For weeks, the Barack Obama campaign has warned that Hillary Clinton would try to use her ties to the Democratic establishment to muscle 'super delega...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters _ straight to Barack Obama. In just the past two weeks, more than ...
Richard Riehl | Posted 02.22.2008 | Home
Who are the superdelegates? If you think of them as old cronies, horse trading their votes in backroom deals, you haven't met 28-year-old Democratic National Committee member Crystal Strait.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
Surely if Hillary wins both Ohio and Texas she will continue onward, hoping that after 36 contests, there is still such a thing as momentum. But win or lose, the math is still daunting.
Newsday | Glen Thrush | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel - one of Hillary Clinton's most stalwart African-American defenders - is apparently questioning her reliance on unelected s...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
A co-chairman of Hillary's Michigan campaign and has a line that's sure to drive a whole bunch of red state governor's up the wall: "Superdelegates ...
James Freedman | Posted 02.17.2008 | Home
Hillary Clinton currently leads Barack Obama by a wide margin among superdelegates appointed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Clinton maint...
NY Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY and FARHANA HOSSAIN | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics
The dwindling group of elected officials and party leaders publicly undecided in the Democratic presidential contest -- about 300 out of the 795 so-ca...
New York Daily News | KENNETH R. BAZINET | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama picked off a superdelegate previously committed to Hillary Clinton Friday in another setback for her campaign. Sarah Swisher, a Service ...
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Bloomberg | Nicholas Johnston and Lorraine Woellert | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics