When this primary season started, Clinton had a huge lead in the number of superdelegates who had stated their preference. But is the last couple of months, Obama has really closed the superdelegate gap. He has now pulled to within 23 superdelegates.
Even though the mainstream media has been bad-mouthing Obama for days about his relationship with his former-pastor, Rev. Wright, it doesn't seem to have stopped the trending of superdelegates to the Obama campaign. This week, Obama has gotten seven new superdelegates to four for Clinton.
Rep. Bruce Braley of Iowa, a new Obama superdelegate, said, "That's been one of the most frustrating things about this prolonged campaign, is we seemed to have gotten away from the critical issues that started this campaign...and now it's more about the side spectacle than the issues that voters really care about. I'm confident that he has taken this issue head-on. He has addressed it in a thoughtful and enlightened way."
In the overall delegate total (both pledged delegates and superdelegates), Obama now has a lead of 133 delegates. He has 1731 delegates and Clinton has 1598 delegates.
Hopefully, Indiana and North Carolina will end this nonsense by extending that lead even further.
If Obama continues his photo-op basketball games in each town he visits, he's sure to win over the voters!
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