Plus Six: Obama Adds Another Superdelegate

By my count, Obama has won the backing of six superdelegates since last week to Clinton's zero. The latest superdelegate, per the Washington Post: DC city councilman Harry Thomas, Jr. He is a former Clinton supporter. Correction: actually, he's not a superdelegate: he's an at-large unpledged delegate.

Comments

That is effective +7. According to DemConWatch, the super/atuo delegate lead for HRC is in the low twenties and shrinking. (With a ~160 pledge del lead for BHO.)

Posted by jjj | April 17, 2008 11:27 AM

drip, drip, drip.

Posted by Philly dog | April 17, 2008 1:11 PM

He's not a Superdelegate. He was elected as an At-Large Unpledged Delegate.

The news is that before he was elected by the State Committee, he was a Hillary Supporter. But on when they held the delegate elections, he put himself on the ballot and won and proceeded to tell everyone that he was unaligned. And now he has announced Obama.

I used to live in Ward 5 and the guy is a schmuck. But at least he cares about one thing, himself. There are a lot of primary challengers for every coucil seat in DC and I am sure that on the one issue alone, he would lost in the next elections.

Posted by Brandon | April 17, 2008 1:15 PM

At large unpledged at-large or add-on delegates are indeed Super Delegates and are counted in the Super Delegate totals.

Posted by Chuchundra | April 17, 2008 1:32 PM

Thomas didn't really have a choice if he wanted to maintain political viability in DC.

Posted by ezr | April 17, 2008 2:12 PM

Like Chuchundra said, ``superdelegate'' generally refers to the whole class of unpledged delegates. That's what makes them ``super.'' They can vote for whomever they want at the convention and therefore, some claim, they have more power. Anytime you hear a reference to the almost 800 superdelegates that number includes these unpledged add-ons like Thomas. There are 76 such delegates.

Posted by Galois | April 17, 2008 7:16 PM