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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired27b/~3/290295678/surprise-studen.html
| College democrat representatives Lauren Wolfe and Awais Khaleel endorsed Barack Obama on Tuesday, using YouTube to unveil their preference.
"As superdelegates who represent college students, we support senator Barack Obama," Wolfe says in the video.
"Even though we heard responses in support of both senator Clinton and senator Obama, there was one candidate who started out ahead, and never looked back," says Awais.
The two were among the remaining undeclared superdelegates being heavily lobbied by both the Clinton and Obama campaigns, as well as their supporters .
A previous THREAT LEVEL post reported that the two held out until now because they'd wanted to hold on their influence within the Democratic party on behalf of their constituents.
But maybe there was also a more mundane reason -- they were busy replying to the 1,000 Facebook messages and 5,000 e-mails that they received concerning their decisions.
Though Facebook has in the past tried to make special adjustments to its platform to accommodate the scale of political activities, the system obviously wasn't put in place here.
"Facebook even shut down our profiles because we responded to nearly every message that we got, and they thought it was spam," laughs Khaleel in the endorsement video.
[But] "We knew that this was a way to reach college students that was accessible to them!" Wolfe says.
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