UPDATED:
Obama gets 3 supers from Hawaii
Update 2: From the AP:
HONOLULU (AP) - Barack Obama has picked up three superdelegate votes from Hawaii.
Hawaii Democrats selected three Obama supporters to fill its remaining superdelegate slots at their state convention today, including the new chair and vice chair of the party.
Chairman Brian Schatz and vice chairwoman Kari Luna say they will support Obama at the national convention. State Democrats chose retired Judge James Burns, also an Obama supporter, as the final superdelegate.
The three Obama supporters are among the state's nine superdelegates, only two of whom support Obama's rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Among Hawaii's pledged delegates, Obama leads Clinton 14-6.
The rest of this is now out of date, as the AP had previously announced only one new Super, and I was confused as to who it was.
Demconwatch set out the superdelegate schedule for this weekend. Yesterday, GA split its two add-ons across the two candidates and Wyoming and Alaska each chose an add-on for Obama. Saturday summary: 3-1.
Today, in Hawaii, the state Democrats are (or were) continuing to meet in their state convention and are supposed to pick three add-ons. In addition to that, Hawaiian superdelegate Dolly Strazar just endorsed Obama (update: she endorsed two weeks, ago sorry.) The AP is claiming a new SD for Obama today (see below). If the AP is correct, so far today: 1-0, with more possibly to go. Is the new delegate the Hawaii add-on?
This is obviously a pro-Obama state, but supposedly much of the state Dem leadership was initially lined up behind HRC. These add-ons don't have to follow the overall state vote. If Obama gets a couple of the add-ons, he will have less than 50 more to go! It is starting to get to the point where the final three states could possibly put him over the top without any further superdelegate movement (subject to whatever happens at the May 31 rules committee meeting.)
I will try to update if there is further news from Hawaii.
UPDATE 1 (already out of date)
My bad, the new SD is not Strazar, really ought to check dates better. But in today's AP article we still see:
Clinton spoke of her determination to stay in the race despite trailing Illinois Sen. Obama, who picked up one more superdelegate in Hawaii on Sunday, giving him a total of 1,975 delegates, just 51 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to clinch the nomination. Clinton still has 1,779.
Also, it is not three add-ons but 1 add-on and a new Chair and Vice-Chair of the party, who immediately become Supers. From DemConWatch:
Sunday. May 25, Hawaii Democrats hold their State Convention, followed by a meeting of the State Central Committee, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort in Waikiki, and name their add-on, and also select a new state party chair and vice-chair, both of whom immediately become superdelegates.
So there should eventually be three new Hawaii supers announced today -- I don't now which one the AP article refers to.