Superdelegate Watch: 4 More For Obama As Another Clinton Superdelegate Switches

Posted by Ashish on 05.07.2008

Another big day for Obama...

Barack Obama scored four new superdelegate endorsements today from North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jerry Meek, California DNC member Inola Henry, North Carolina official Jeanette Council (who endorsed last night), and Virginia's state representative and DNC member Jennifer McClellan who was a Clinton superdelegate but has now flipped to Obama. Clinton got one new superdelegate today in North Carolina Rep. Shuler who had vowed to support the candidate who won his district (Clinton won it). Of course, his endorsement is washed out by McClellan switching from Clinton to Obama, which means Obama has had a net gain of four superdelegates today.

George Stephanopoulos already reported this morning that Obama is planning to drop three to five superdelegates at a time, slowly, over the course of the next few days, and that he essentially already has the nomination locked up.

Obama is now 172 delegates away from the nomination.