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Superdelegate #1 for Obama today... how many more?

Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 08:53:37 AM PDT

Obama got 2 yesterday. Will they keep doing the morning afternoon thing?

Superdelegate Wu Backs Obama In Oregon
Oregon Rep. David Wu, one of Oregon's 12 Democratic superdelegates, announced Thursday that he'd back Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, citing Obama's stand against the Iraq war "from the very beginning."

Wu joins Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer in backing Obama. Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Rep. Darlene Hooley are supporting New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The rest of Oregon's superdelegates have not yet announced their choice.

"We need new policies both at home and abroad," Wu said in a statement. "Like Americans, the international community wants to see real change in America and I believe that Senator Obama embodies that change."

The endorsement is an important win for Obama in one of the few states still to vote. Oregon's primary ballots are counted on May 20. Fox 12

And now... fun with numbers from 2008 Democratic Convention Watch

And if you haven't seen we now have a widget of our top tracker that we update anytime something changes.

And finally... a note to Marc Ambinder. What rock have you been hiding under for the past 5 months?

Lots of talk, not a lot of action. There's been talk for weeks about an effort by liberal bloggers to figure out the names of the undecided superdelegates, out them, and pressure them into announcing their support for one candidate or the other. So far -- so far as I'm aware -- no organized effort has sprouted.

He wrote that today!

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