WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama will be campaigning in Oregon
today a day after hauling in nine more superdelegates toward the
Democratic nomination.
One of the superdelegates is the head of a 600,000-member
federal workers union, which has also thrown its support behind
Obama.
Hillary Clinton picked up two delegates yesterday.
The new superdelegate tally has Obama within two of the number
who’ve announced for Clinton. At the start of the primary season,
she had a commanding lead in the tally of party activists and
elected officials. Superdelegates will likely decide the nomination
because neither candidate can grab enough pledged delegates to win
the nomination outright.
The former first lady will be in New York today for a Mother’s
Day celebration.
Republican candidate John McCain holds a fundraising event in
Houston.
Campaigning yesterday in South Carolina, McCain wouldn’t be
pinned down on a pick for vice president. He also again denied a
report that he voted against President Bush in 2000.
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