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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 3 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/05/09/obama-now-leads-in-superdelegat
 Filed under: Hillary Clinton , Democrats , Barack Obama , Breaking News Via ABC News , the inevitable has happened: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton's support among superdelegates, according to the ABC News delegate estimate. The tipping point occurred this morning, when New Jersey's Rep. Donald Payne defected from Clinton to Obama, and Oregon's Rep. Peter DeFazio , previously uncommitted, saw fit to join up with the Obama wagon trail. By ABC's count, that gives Obama 267 supers, while Clinton has 256. Later this morning, Clinton edged back with the endorsement of Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Carter, so it looks as though she only trails now by 1 superdelegate. UPDATE : Back up to a two-point lead. Obama nabs another . My hunch is that many supers were waiting to see if Clinton was going to make a graceful exit from the race. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. Therefore, she has put many reluctant supersdelegates in the position of having to do the dirty work. How dire is Hillary's situation? She is now asking fence-sitters for their secret allegiance . If your supporters won't publicly declare their support, you know you're in trouble. Well, the fat lady, she has ditched the sotto voce and is belting it out loudly for all to hear. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ... |
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