We all know Obama will eventually get a majority of Edwards' delegates but there's no rule saying the pledged delegate has to vote for Obama.

Tonight just a few short hours after the endorsement we've all been waiting for Obama picked up one of those delegates.

A New Hampshire Democratic Party delegate who had supported John Edwards says he will support Barack Obama, now that Edwards has endorsed his former political rival for the party's presidential nominee.
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Joshua Denton of Portsmouth, 26, an Iraq war veteran, says he thinks that both Obama and Hillary Clinton would be a better president than Republican nominee John McCain. He thinks that Obama is the change the country needs, along with having the best chance of beating McCain in the general election.

"My fear with Hillary was just because she is who she is -- for better or worse -- she would sink, not just lose the presidency," but Democrats in Congress, Denton said Wednesday. - Boston Globe

John Edwards now has 18 remaining pledged delegates (not counting Florida)

Superdelegate #1 for Obama today. How many more will we see before the end of the day? If today is anything like Friday we'll see quite a few more.

Democratic Rep. Tom Allen announced this morning that he is supporting Barack Obama for president.

"I have been friends for a very long time with former President Clinton and Sen. Clinton. I respect their service to our nation," Allen said in a written statement. He added that "most of the primary voters across the nation have now spoken. It is time to bring a graceful end to the primary campaign. We now need to unify the Democratic party and focus on electing Sen. Obama and a working majority in the United States Senate."

Barack Obama won both Maine and Tom Allen's district by wide a margin.

Allen's endorsement brings Obama's superdelegate vote total to 276. He leads Hillary Clinton by 5.5 superdelegate votes after taking the lead on Saturday.

Barack Obama is now only 1/2 of a superdelegate vote behind Hillary Clinton.
The Utah Democratic Party selected Kristi Cumming as the newest superdelegate.

Obama only needs 164 more total delegates to win the nomination

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver were elected Friday, including unpledged add-on (or so-called superdelegate), Kristi Cumming.

Others elected were:

• Congressional District 1 for Hillary Clinton: Carlos Vasquez and Connie Nelson.

• Congressional District 1 for Barack Obama: Kathy Snyder, Scott McCoy, and Kelvin Davis.

• Congressional District 2 for Hillary Clinton: Lisa Alcott and Ross Romero

• Congressional District 2 for Barack Obama: Josie Valdez, Pat Jones, Theodore Cowan, and Kurt Bestor.

• Congressional District 3 for Hillary Clinton: Jordon Payell and Emily Rushton

• Congressional District 3 for Barack Obama: Brian Spitten and Millicent Lewis.

The Obama campaign has just issued a press release announcing the SC Democratic Party's Vice Chair Wilbur Lee Jeffcoat endorsement for Obama

SOUTH CAROLINA SUPERDELEGATE ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA
South Carolina Democratic Party Vice Chair Endorses Obama

CHICAGO, IL – Today, Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, the Democratic Party Vice Chair in South Carolina and superdelegate endorsed Barack Obama.

Jeffcoat is the 269th superdelegate to endorse Barack Obama.  Obama is 162 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination.

His statement is below:

"Barack Obama inspired thousands of new voters in my state of South Carolina to get involved in our democratic process and I am proud to announce my endorsement today.  With Barack Obama as our nominee, we can bring more and more new voters out to become involved and have their voices heard. Obama has worked his whole life to unite people from all backgrounds and walks of life for change, he has done that in this campaign and he will continue to do that as President.  I am excited to join his campaign today."

Cross-posted from 2008 Democratic Convention Watch

One of the greatest mysteries of this primary season isn't who will win the nomination but rather who is Mr. Super? Today we finally found out!

   MrSuper.org is a website which was created in March to debunk myths, offer insight and answer questions about the 2008 Democratic nomination process for President. The author, who has been posting under the pseudonym "Mr. Super" will announce his identity today.

   The site was created by Edward Espinoza, an undeclared Superdelegate and elected DNC Member from California and a former Field Director to 2008 Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson.

At 2008 Democratic Convention Watch we don't count superdelegate endorsements until they're official. Today Illinois will officially announce their 3 add-on Superdelegates. Everybody knew about these endorsements... but I have a new treat for you.

The chairman and vice-chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party are throwing their support behind Sen. Barack Obama on the eve of Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, giving the Illinois senator at least two additional superdelegates.

Maryland Democratic officials said this morning that a few more of the state's uncommitted superdelegates -- including state Del. Heather R. Mizeur of Montgomery County -- could also announce their decisions today. - Baltimore Sun

UPDATE: Obama just picked up super #2 of the day

Winthrop farmer Richard Machacek, an Iowa superdelegate, said today he is pledging to support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

Machacek, a member of the Democratic National Committee, had been uncommitted. He said he saw little difference between Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on policy positions or ability.
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Machacek, a Buchanan County Democrat also on the party's state central committee, said Obama's performance at Saturday's Democratic district conventions in Iowa tipped the balance in his favor. Des Moines Register

While Clinton may have just gotten the endorsement of NC Governor Mike Easley, Barack Obama quickly canceled it out with the endorsement of Kentucky Representative Ben Chandler.

You've all seen or heard about the ad Republicans are planning on running in NC. The one that the media is happily repeating ad nauseum for free. The one that NC TV stations are refusing to air. The ad's main purpose is to make the Democratic candidates for Governor look bad.

So how do you think the Clinton campaign feels about this?

"Even though they (Perdue and Moore) are supporting Senator Obama they are good Democrats, and this ad is wrong," Carson says, in a statement sent to ABC News' Eloise Harper. "It's exactly the kind of ad Republicans run every cycle to distract us from their failures and the real issues that face our country." - ABC

So take heart fellow Kossaks! Even though you support Obama the Clinton Campaign thinks you can still be a good Democrat.

Even though there are 234 superdelegates supporting Obama, they just may still have a chance of being considered "good Democrats" by the Clintons.

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

This is Obama's second endorsement of the day.

From BarackObama.com

Audra Ostergard, Associate Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party and member of the Democratic National Committee, publicly announced her support for Senator Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

"I have carefully weighed input from Democrats across Nebraska and closely watched results from primaries and caucuses across the country," said Ostergard.  "There are compelling arguments for supporting both candidates, but my decision came down to what’s best for our country and for Nebraska.  In that regard, I am confident in my decision to endorse Senator Obama.  He has a proven ability to activate Democrats in Nebraska."

"The gravity of this decision has weighed on me heavily," Ostergard added.  "I don’t want to use my position to influence the process, but at the same time I agree with Howard Dean that our party needs a nominee.  Senator Obama’s prohibitive lead in pledged delegates was a major factor in my decision."

As if whining about Obama's kindergarten paper on being the President wasn't enough the Clinton campaign is now calling Obama a copycat.

Hillary Clinton was clearly having a blast during her drop-in appearance with Stephen Colbert here last Thursday, but her campaign's mood soured when aides learned Barack Obama would be appearing on the same show via satellite.
"I can't believe it -- he's such a copycat," fumed a person close to Clinton, telling Newsday that the candidate herself said was surprised by Obama's Colbert Nation invasion.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton says his boss was simply taking the show up on its repeated requests that he appear - and that the producers had suggested the Thursday time slot. (Colbert's spokeswoman didn't return calls for comment.) "I'm not surprised the Clinton campaign attacking us for going on the Colbert Report -- since their campaign is 100% negative," Burton said. "But I do have to say this is about the lamest attack they've come up with so far." - The Swamp

Longtime Hillary supporter Jane Hamsher from FireDogLake may not be a Hillary supporter after today.

The Huffington Post headline reads "Hillary Slams Democratic Activists." I'm being told that Hillary Clinton was caught on tape disparaging Barack Obama because he's being supported by MoveOn, and that they opposed military action in Afghanistan.

I've tried to stay out of the pie fights of late, but as a long-term defender of MoveOn and other progressive organizations -- this is completely unacceptable.

I defended Hillary Clinton when she refused to bow to right wing pressure and condemn MoveOn over the "General Betrayus" ad (and was sad when she finally capitulated). MoveOn are valuable progressive partners, who have been with us on Donna Edwards, net neutrality, trying to bring an end to the war, FISA and other issues we've been fighting for. - Jane Hamsher

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From the Raleigh N&O

Campaign manager David Plouffe will hold a conference call with reporters this afternoon to announce two new endorsements.
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That leaves 14 more superdelegates. Two are add-ons who will be named at the state convention. One is party chairman Jerry Meek, who has said he will remain neutral.

That leaves Gov. Mike Easley; Reps. Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, Brad Miller, Bob Etheridge, David Price and Mel Watt; Buncombe County Commissioner Carol Peterson; Statesville attorney David Parker; Employment Security Commission employee Muriel K. Offerman and Cumberland County Commissioner Jeanette Council.

Along with Rep. Andre Carson's endorsement today, the new endorsements from NC will put Obama only 23 superdelegates behind Clinton.

Update: The superdelegates have been announced as Mel Watt and David Price

The big media is just starting to pick up on the fact that add-on superdelegates may be a big factor in who gets the nomination.

At 2008 Democratic Convention Watch we've been following add-ons since before the first one was named.

Today recently named add-on superdelegate Harry Thomas Jr. of DC pulled his support from Clinton and is now uncommitted.

Ward 5 D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. was elected last week by the D.C. Democratic State Committee as a delegate to the national convention. Thomas, who had previously endorsed Clinton, was listed as a Clinton backer on a delegate spreadsheet circulated Monday by the committee.

But by the end of the day, the party had retracted that announcement, and Thomas was switched to simply "unpledged."

"He wants to confer with the party," said Vicky Leonard-Chambers, Thomas’ spokeswoman.

You may not have heard it on the news but Obama had a great weekend. On Saturday he picked up add-on superdelegate Rob Carver from Delaware and Susan Montee from Missouri.

To make it even better (for Obama supporters) Hillary backer Helen Langan of Utah went undecided on NPR yesterday

Now for today's news...
North Dakota has selected Dan Hannaher as their add-on superdelegate to the convention.

Hannaher (pictured on the right) is a senior North Dakota adviser for the Obama campaign and even keeps a blog on the Obama campaign website.

Insider Advantage just released a poll which has Clinton leading Obama 45-43. You can see the polling results here.

There's no MoE shown but I'd bet it puts them at or near a tie.
The poll shows Obama up 70% - 26.5% with 18-29 voters

Real Clear Politics has averaged all of the recent PA polls for the following results

The question we may need to start asking ourselves is when will Clinton start downplaying Pennsylvania and if anybody is dumb enough to believe her.

Sorry everybody. I just talked to somebody at the State Board of Elections and we went over the results for every district and they're totaling 104-49.

The change was made soon after Super Tuesday but wasn't reported until last month.

Hillary Clinton's campaign managed to owe $8,733,603 for services that were used during the campaign.

As Ben Smith notes on Politico one of the groups still owed money by Clinton is a Minnesota charity called Neighborhood House. The Clinton campaign owes them $580 for venue use and catering.

From the sounds of Clinton's money problems Neighborhood House probably won't be seeing their money any time soon. I think we should help them out by donating over and above what the Clinton campaign owes them. We're not paying the bill for the campaign... we're helping out a charity until the bill can be paid.

One of the most outrageous thing about this is that the venue that Clinton used is called the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center